The Gore curse confirmed

The former pollster for Howard Dean reveals how Al Gore destroyed Howard Dean’s candidacy:

Although the endorsement by former vice president Al Gore was initially viewed as a coup, Maslin discovered in polling that it had "little if any value." That is because Gore's former Iowa supporters -- some of whom blamed him for the Democrats' defeat in 2000 -- said it made them less likely to back Dean.

That’s some bad karma there.