Rock the Vote: To Iowans for Biden, Dodd, Richardson, Kucinich, Paul and Gore

If we rock the vote, Hillary will get her second change in this campaign, and let her fight for it with what she believes in, what she stands for — not sending surrogates out to demean other Democrats or campaigning on the vanities of restoration or inevitability. If she wins after a truly open contest, she will be a better candidate and leader for it.

If we rock the vote let Biden be Biden, let Richardson be Richardson, let Dodd be Dodd, let Kucinich be Kucinich, let Obama be Obama, let Edwards be Edwards, let Gore tell us where he stands, and let them ALL be heard, in a TRUE process of democracy with the REAL debate our country deserves, and demands.

Already the television insiders are planning to ban certain candidates from future debates, beginning with the shameful exclusion of Dennis Kucinich in Iowa and Ron Paul. The debates that were never serious will soon be the debates that will be entirely silenced, but this will change if the supporters of Biden, Richardson, Dodd, Kucinich and Gore, and Democrats for Paul, rock the vote in Iowa, open the process and restore democracy to a tired and decadent system.

If Obama and Edwards finish first and second in Iowa, the closed process opens, and the voice of the disenfranchised majority will be heard.

Our democracy will be replenished with the only restoration that matters, the restoration of the Democratic Party as the party of the people, and the restoration of our democratic government being of the people, for the people, and by the people.

To supporters of Biden, Richardson, Dodd, Kucinich and Gore, and Democrats for Ron Paul: On Jan. 3 you are the stars, you are the leaders, and you are the Thomas Paines of our times with the power to rock the vote, and change the world.

Now: Predictions

Obama wins Iowa with a surge of independent voters. Edwards second, Hillary a close third behind Edwards. Everyone else distant. This gives Obama a boost in New Hampshire and he takes a clear, four-point lead over Hillary in the Granite State after Iowa. I am not yet calling a New Hampshire winner but Obama has the edge.

No prediction on Romney versus Huckabee. McCain comes in third and is seen as a big Iowa winner, vaults to a five-point lead over Romney in New Hampshire and defeats Romney there by at least three to five points. Big showdown in South Carolina. Stay tuned.

Again, my mega-prediction for the year is that 2008 will be The Year of the Political Independent and what I write here will soon be the conventional wisdom. You read it here first and you will read it again in the The Hill newspaper soon!

crossposted from TheHill.com

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