A New Hampshire Write-In for Gore Can Win (Brent Budowsky)

[WillyT]

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It is undoubtedly a long shot, but the voters of New Hampshire have a wonderful history of confounding the experts and changing the course of American history.

Dwight Eisenhower was enlisted in 1952 by voters in New Hampshire. Henry Cabot Lodge in 1964 won a pure New Hampshire write-in while serving as American ambassador to Vietnam, finishing ahead of Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller, who were both on the ballot.

In 1968 Eugene McCarthy stunned the world and began the tortured path out of Vietnam with a breathtaking triumph in New Hampshire, and in 2000, John McCain electrified the political world with a dramatic victory in the Granite State.

It has been done before; it can be done again.

The reason that New Hampshire is, and should always be, the first primary in the nation is that it represents the truest example of citizen democracy on the most important matter before American voters, the election of a president.

This will be truer in 2008 than ever before.

New Hampshire will be preceded by the Iowa caucus, a wonderful exercise in democracy, though with participation that will be limited to 10 to 15 percent of eligible Iowa Democrats.

The most important political day in 2008 will be Super Tuesday, which is a travesty of how a great nation should choose its leader, with its mass voting dominated by television ads and virtually no interaction between candidates and voters, compared to New Hampshire.

In New Hampshire there will be a true exercise of democracy, with thoughtful voters carefully considering the future of the nation, evaluating the candidates in a serious process that would make the Founding Fathers proud.

If the national Draft Gore movement and the significant, passionate and well-organized Gore supporters in New Hampshire roll the dice with a New Hampshire write-in campaign, the political dynamic creates a real opening for another New Hampshire stunner in 2008.

Here is why: From the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize award through Al Gore’s acceptance speech in December, he will carry the mantle of world statesman and moral leader while the presidential candidates will campaign in a frenzy of low-concept politics, heaping negatives on each other.

It is this stark comparison, of the lowball politics of conventional politicians running against each other for president against the Nobel Laureate statesmanship and moral leadership leading into the most important speech of Al Gore’s life, that just might appeal to the voters of New Hampshire if the believers of Gore make their stand in the Granite State.

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More: http://pundits.thehill.com/2007/10/15/a-new-hampshire-write-in-for-gore-can-win/

Hmmm...

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[MannyGoldstein]

1. I Sure Hope So! nt

[SlowDownFast]

2. K&R.

[book_worm]

3. the interesting thing about '68 that people don't recall is that LBJ was the write-in candidate in

NH. While Eugene McCarthy was on the ballot. Johnson won by 7-points. So yes a write-in effort if it's well done and well coordinated and well financed can win.