LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR: The Democratic candidates are in Pittsburgh, part of a marathon 27-hour campaign trip that began down in Florida with a visit with construction workers in Philadelphia, and now a visit with steelworkers in Pittsburgh. The vice president is at the podium.</s>VICE PRES. AL GORE (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Didn't Gloria do a great job? She really did.</s>AUDIENCE: No!</s>GORE: ... because working people have had better wages and there've been more jobs in the last eight years because we've done some things right. You remember how bad it was eight years ago. The deficits were $300 billion a year. The unemployment rate was high. We saw jobs being shipped overseas. We had all kinds of social problems getting worse. And thanks to you, we had a chance to bring some changes; and instead of the biggest deficits, we now have the biggest surpluses; and instead of a triple-dip recession, we've had a tripling of the stock market. Instead of high unemployment, we've got the lowest African-American unemployment ever measured, the lowest Latino unemployment ever measured, 22 million new jobs, and strongest economy in the 224-year history of the United States of America.</s>WATERS: Billed as an around-the-clock tribute to middle-income working people, even praising the working press surrounding him today in Pittsburgh, part of a 27-hour marathon campaigning trip that began late yesterday and took Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman down to Philadelphia. They were in Tampa, Florida having breakfast with firefighters early this morning. They were with auto and hospital workers in Flint, Michigan and other at the labor rally in Pittsburgh. It's not over yet. Al Gore will leave Pittsburgh and head to Louisville, Kentucky for another rally. Joseph Lieberman will be in Toledo. Part of each stop is the plan to reduce taxes for the middle class, expand health care, upgrade schools, strengthen Social Security.
Vice Pres. Al Gore Addresses Supporters at Pittsburgh Labor Day Event