LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR: Vice President Gore has just taken the stage. He's shed his suit coat. He is among friends in Chicago. And he's about to speak.</s>VICE PRES. AL GORE (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Let me tell you what I'm hearing. What I'm hearing is that on Tuesday we're going to carry Illinois big.</s>AUDIENCE: No.</s>GORE: That was my reaction also. He recommends that we go back to the kinds of policies that we had eight years ago.</s>AUDIENCE: No.</s>GORE: That was my reaction also. My message and yours to George Bush is: We are not going back. We're going forward and onward and upward to better times.</s>AUDIENCE: Yes.</s>GORE: Are you with me?</s>AUDIENCE: Yes.</s>GORE: Are you ready to win?</s>AUDIENCE: Yes.</s>GORE: I believe it's time that we have a prescription drug benefit for all seniors under the Medicare program.</s>AUDIENCE: No.</s>GORE: We want a clean environment. Aren't you proud that you can swim in the lake and that you've got a clean environment?</s>WATERS: Al Gore on the balls of his feet in Daley Plaza, named for the Daleys of Chicago, giving his stump speech to the folks there, and telling them that he's hearing we're going to win in Illinois, even though the latest tracking poll from Gallup shows Bush with 48 percent, Gore with 43 percent. Of course, those polls have been jumping around all the while. Illinois voters usually go with the winner, voting for the loser only twice in the last century.
Vice President Gore Holds Campaign Rally in Chicago