Gordon Fischer Is No Carnac The Magnificent

From Gordon Fischer's IowaTrueBlue blog on November 9, 2006:

Prediction: Tom Vilsack Will Be The Next President of the United States

Flat out.

Now, this will sound like I'm bragging, but I'm really not. I am a quite humble person (frankly, I have many, many, many reasons to be humble). But I do have a solid track record for accurate predictions.

In 2005, before spring training, I predicted the Chicago White Sox would win the World Series.

In 2006, as you can see from this site, I was pretty dead on with my political prognistications.

I will write much, much more over the coming days, weeks, and months, but a few reasons for my prediction (in absolutely no particular order):

1. Tom Vilsack's personal story is simply incredible, and will both help readily distinguish him from the pack, and allow him to connect with working families.

2. He has never run in an election he was favored to win, but has never lost an election.

3. On the stump, when he is on, Tom Vilsack is as good or better as any politician out there.

4. He helped -- in fact, I think he was the single biggest reason -- Iowa turned from purple to solid blue. That's a huge feather in his cap, and one that will attract Dems nationally.

5. Tom Harkin. He is simply amazing, and will be a gigantic help.

6. Ditto Sally Pederson and Jerry Crawford.

7. He is a governor. The last time a sitting member of Congress was elected President? John Kennedy in 1960. With all due respect to the other candidates, that is no historical accident.

8. Not only is he a governor, Tom Vilsack has been a great Governor. Especially on issues like schools, health care, clean air and clean water, jobs, and other issues Dems are really passionate about.

As I said, I'll be blogging much more about this, obviously, but for now, I'm predicting it flat out: President Vilsack.

Go give him some shit in his comments section.

More about Tom Vilsack's true legacy here.