An open letter to the Democrat presidential hopefuls...

From my friend Sara:

Hi. Dedicated voter here. It's bothering me how, more than a year before the election, the national media has already anointed certain of you as front-runners. These prophesies have a way of fulfilling themselves…that, and the national press is lazy, and already knows some of you better than others (which magically makes you a "front-runner"). See, things like Time magazine's "awareness index," or whatever they call it, make me sick. The press are pre-selecting our candidates for us by choosing which of them to cover. So, while I still have a mind to make up, and before I'm stuck voting for yet another focus group-approved stuffed shirt former Senator, I have some things I want to get off my chest. Since all the candidates are still technically in the running, maybe someone out there will have an incentive to listen.