Jeremy Emberling [Dot] Com

First off, I think I need to give a disclaimer. This is my opinion, not my employer’s. This is a PERSONAL blog entry on my PERSONAL blog, that has NO RELATION to MY EMPLOYER. To those who have no idea what I’m talking about, just forget that above part. I shouldn’t have to say it, but you know, people need to understand that fact.

So, I guess we have a new President. He wasn’t who I wanted, either. Sadly, my choice, Ron Paul, didn’t get the light of day. Hopefully, people will realize over time that my candidate was right, and with any luck, he’ll run again in 2012.

By looking at the social networks, it seems a lot of my friends are upset that Obama won. I hope this teaches you a lesson on how our elections are ran. At the time of writing, Obama has 338 electoral votes. McCain has 156. Obama has won by a landslide. Just one thing… the popular vote tells a different story. The popular vote (the one that you actually vote for) has only a 3% difference with 75% reporting. Obama has 51% of the vote. McCain has 48%. This is very close. Yet, Obama has already one when there is still 25% unreported. That doesn’t sound a bit off? Welcome to the electoral college.

Most people think we vote the President into the White House. We don’t. You may be confused. That’s understandable. You may also think the United States is a democracy. You’d be wrong bout that, too. We’re a Republic, just remember that when you wine about democracy. Anyway, we do not elect our President. America does what is called an indirect election, which essentially means we vote people in to vote for us.The way it works with the Electoral College, is each state gets an equal number of electors as members of the House and Senate, which is determined by population.

They pick the presidential choice, and a vice president. You have to have 270 votes to win. You can pick for whomever you want, but the idea is you are supposed to chose who won in your district. This obviously DID NOT HAPPEN. This is a serious flaw in our election process. Now before I hear ONE Republican complain, I want you to realize that the same thing happened in 2000. Al Gore won the popular vote, but the electoral college picked Bush.

Where were the cries then? Oh yeaah, that’s right. They did scream and yell, but what did Republicans do? Laugh, naturally. Calling them sore losers, and well, just not caring since they won. Now, it’s come full circle. Sure, I’m not happy Obama won, but you know, it’s about time the G.O.P. realizes that they have truly lost touch with what the Republican party REALLY is about.

So, here’s what I have to say to the Republicans: Read up on your party. You probably don’t know just how “liberal” your founding members would be today. All these “crazy” ideas that you hear about, like dissolving the Federal Reserve and leaving Iraq, are actually true to the core Republican beliefs. Oh, and for the love of God, stop watching Fox News.