BOSTON--More than 2,000 cheering, chanting supporters--and a handful of protesters--greeted Vice President Al Gore '69 during a rally outside Faneuil Hall Saturday morning.

Amid a sea of red and blue signs, Gore pledged to fight for civil rights, health care reform and environmental protection and charged that his Republican opponents would turn back the clock.

"The GOP should be hesitant and sheepish to recommend that we abandon what was working and return to what failed," he said.

Gore focused criticism on the presumptive Republican nominee, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, but never mentioned his Democratic rival, former Sen. Bill Bradley.

Noting that abolitionist Frederick Douglass spoke at Faneuil Hall, the vice president promised to combat discrimination and advocate for working class people.

"Our primary campaign here in Massachusetts may be coming to a close, but our fight for the working families of this country has only just begun," he said.

Massachusetts will vote tomorrow along with 12 other states, including New York and California.

Over the weekend Gore visited cities in Rhode Island, New York and Florida in addition to his appearance in Massachusetts, according to Alex Zaroulis, the campaign's New England communications director.