cbs 20071230 MAKE IT A CONTEST

It is time for a new national movement.  This is Dave Ross...

And the purpose of this national movement is nothing less than to preserve what little democracy remains in the election process.

Here is it, the most wide open election of our lifetimes, and most of us are now reduced to observing it from afar.  Oh, in Iowa and New Hampshire Democracy permeates the very air.  Both states have become candidate petting zoos.

In those states if you have breakfast at the right diner you can share toast with he next president.

Here's the problem for the rest of us.  If youpeopel give it to he candidates with the most money, it could be over.  Two states could  dictate who's left for the rest of us.  True democracy in Iowa and New Hampshire would lead to sham democracy everywhere else.

Don’t let this happen.

There must be a national movement to make it a contest.  Make it a contest!  Don't declare the winner after the first inning!  The people of Iowa and New Hampshire -- and I've seen them on CSPAN, they're good solid people, they believe in fair play -- the good people of Iowa and New Hampshire should use their power to make it a contest.  They should use their power to give a boost to whoever is behind.  They should use the power of the vote to negate the power of the money.  That’s the one thing a small state can do that a big state can’t.  

So do it!   Confound the polls.  Keep people like Joe Biden and Ron Paul alive.   If you don’t; if come February we’re ;eft with two candidates, it means we’ll be talking about the same two people for the next NINE months, and it will be the longest nine months of all of our lives.   Don’t make me beg.
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