Ohio Primary Results

     Hey gang the Primaries are over and now time has come to analyze the results.

     First off I know everyone has been studying and following the presidential race, as with any election the top office tends to define the whole process. Here in Ohio in the Republican race John Kasich our current Governor won the Primary, while Hillary Clinton won on the Democrat side.  What does this mean? Well the thing about the presidency is that it’s really the only position that is elected nationwide. Since the Presidency is in fact voted on by the nation one must look at the rest of the nation to know what is really going on. First off in the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton now holds nearly double the total delegates as opponent Bernie Sanders, and is likely to take the nomination.

     Now John Kasich is a completely different story, He himself has 143 delegates and 66 of those are from his win in Ohio. In my humble opinion John Kasich's only hope of gaining the nomination is a contested convention, which means that when the primaries in every state are over there is no clear winner. That said it would be a great atrocity for the people to give say for example 49% of the vote to Donald Trump, 30% to Ted Cruz and 15% to Kasich, (leaving the last 16% to other candidates who dropped out early) and then all of a sudden you give the prize to third place. #GoldDon'tEqualBronze

     Okay now that we have discussed the national issues let’s not forget the local elections. Two races that I have myself followed closest were the Sharif and Ross County Commissioner races. On the Republican side current Sharif George Lavender, and Dwight Garret won their respective races for nomination. On the Democrat side we had Donald T. Hayburn, II who won the nomination for Sharif and Todd Holdren won the nomination for Commissioner.  

     I will not be announcing all of my endorsements anytime soon but I cannot hide that George Lavender is my pick for Sharif I know him personally and I've never met a member of law enforcement more dedicated to the protection of the citizenry. 

     One final note I'm excited to announce that both Diane Carnes Ross County Republican Committee Chairwoman and Dustin Proehl Ross County Democratic Committee Chairman have agreed to be interviewed on the the results of our local primaries. Look for these posts to come soon.

Presidential Term Limits

     As I sat trying to think of a new topic to blog about I happened to overhear a conversation about Obama running for a 3rd term and a young man telling his friends that he (Obama) wanted to be the first president to do it. The list of problems with this statement was so long it took everything in me not to walk up to the young man no more than 20 years of age and slap him so hard he ended up back in his high school government class where he belonged. Luckily for me the young man's friend looked at him and informed him of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's election to a fourth and unfinished term. This second young man continued to tell his unbelieving friend that it was shortly after that in which congress passed a constitutional amendment which limited the number of terms a president could serve. The first young man responded that "he's gonna try it anyway." at this point I placed my headphones on my ears and ignored the rest of the conversation.

 

     This is precisely the reason I launched this blog there I was sitting in Ohio University Chillicothe, and still misunderstandings of this magnitude are all around us. For the record and according to heritage.org in response to F.D.R.'s unprecedented four elected terms the U.S. Congress passed the twenty-second amendment in 1947 which limits each President to two elected terms or in some case's such as my favorite President, Harry S Truman who served all but three months of FDR's fourth term as President due to the untimely death of his predecessor. Under the new requirements anyone serving more than two years of an unexpired term forfeits one elected term. Pres. Truman therefore having served three years and nine months of an unexpired term was technically disqualified from a second elected term. Special thanks to Great Grandma Truman's family records and trumanlittlewhitehouse.com for the information on Pres. Truman. also one last item according to whitehouse.gov and heritage.org Truman did have the option to run for a second elected term as the twenty-second amendment says that it  "shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress." which basically means that the rule only applies to people elected after Truman. I used Truman as my example simply because of my personal connection with him.

Works Cited

http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/amendments/22/essays/184/presidential-term-limit

http://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/key-west/president-truman-biography.htm