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If I were Obama for America, I would seriously compete in the 2012 New Hampshire primary; I would spent significant resources in 2011 getting people fired up here.
You might argue there's nothing to win in an uncontested primary, but I think you'd be wrong.
If the President and Vice President come here, to the kind of small venues they attended when they were Senators, to fire up the (relatively) small gatherings of activists that got Obama where he is now, to remind our small portion of the grassroots what we can do and what we hope to achieve, they can draw a striking contrast with the party of "no we can't," whose frontrunners are lackluster and whose enthusiasm is born of anger, of distress, of fear, of hatred, and of pessimism for the future of America.
President Obama has largely given up the mantle of big-dreaming inspiration since he took office, and he should bring that back. Bring back the hope, if only because his opponents insist that hope is lost and intend to prove it.
It would go a long way in setting the narrative of this campaign, and in reminding the grassroots he knows where he came from and who got him where he is now.
