Itzak Rowland‎ to Martin O'Malley For New Leadership

Dear America,

I am fifteen years old, and I am a full supporter of two-term Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley. He is experienced. He unites the people. His plans for gun control, clean energy, project funding, health care, and foreign policy are well-explained and realistic. He has countless ways in which he relates to the majority of you - take, for instance, the Democratic debate in Charleston, South Carolina just a few hours earlier, when he vividly described a boy he visited in the hospital, who was so young, almost the same age as his son, and who had fallen victim to a shooting gallery - That was probably one of the most touching parts of his speech tonight, but even I have trouble remembering all of the details. Do any of you remember them? If not, here's why.

Governor O'Malley had to rush through this story, hurried by the moderators who gave him less time than Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton in every single question and statement. This has gone on for several debates, and it's horrendous. Every candidate should have an equal opportunity to state their opinion! After the debate tonight, the main coverage of the debate talked in-depth about Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, but didn't so much as mention Governor O'Malley! Other coverage mentioned him, merely saying that he is hanging on to his candidacy by a thread.

This man is showing people realistic plans, plans that have a chance of being accomplished. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and every Republican candidate are telling the people what they want to hear, but I will stand true to the fact that if there could be one candidate whose presidency carried out the reforms they proposed successfully, it would be Governor O'Malley. He is the only candidate who is focusing more on presenting his sensible ideas than belittling fellow candidates to improve the public's view of himself, and yet, because he is losing in polls (which democrats have already stated to be outrageously unreliable), his words are being stifled, which, in turn, has pushed him farther away from popularity in the polls. It is a vicious cycle.

Hasn't years of experience taught anyone that change comes about gradually, through series of compromises? It doesn't magically happen overnight. To all those people who know this and use it when making important decisions such as this, choosing a presidential candidate - thank you for your fair and erudite judgment. However, many of you people don't even know that Governor O'Malley's plans highlight these messages. The media is diminishing him to dust, blown away by the sweep of a broom.

Being the candidate with the lowest net worth of every 2016 presidential candidate, according to Forbes, he suffers most of all the candidates from the issues that your public face every day. He is truly your people's man.

America, I am asking for you to choose the presidential candidate, based on how much of what they propose can be done, not how much of what they propose needs to be done. So, I ask every fellow American to vote for the candidate who will really take action to improve this country! Vote in 2016 for presidential candidate Martin O'Malley.

Itzak Rowland, Determined Citizen