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“I, George Walker Bush, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the president of the United States and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God.”

It’s official now!  George W. Bush has been sworn in and is now President for another 4 years.  I actually missed the swearing in and the speech since I was at work.  However, I did tape it so I’ll be watching it later tonight.

Regardless of your political views, who you voted for or for that matter if you even are an American at all; you have to be impressed by what is happening today.

The Inauguration is proof of the superiority of democracy over all forms of governing.  Every 4 years this great country gives its citizens the power to elect their leader.  Though the process can sometimes get heated and seem crazy in the end it always works out.  The winner is sworn in at a ceremony in which he then takes over control of the country.  There are no coups, civil wars or bloodshed just peaceful transition from one leader to the next.  It has happen without any major problems for over 200 years and should continue till the end of time.

I love this country!

I always find these maps interesting.  Not so much the fact that it’s mostly red.  It just illustrates the difference in lifestyles of Americans.  Those blobs of blue on each coast represent probably 90% of the votes for Kerry.  You quickly come to a realization that as much as liberals want to think that the country is bitterly divided, it’s really just the two densely populated coasts where liberal ideas are prominent.  The rest of the country has very different ideas of what are important in our lives.

Anyhoo, I just wanted to share this cool map.

Sure enough right after I leave for work Kerry goes and finally admits defeat and gives his concession speech.  Now it’s over folks!  Only Wisconsin, Iowa and New Mexico are left to report in as Nevada finally went to Bush giving him 274 which is enough to win. 

Man, it feels good knowing that Bush as won and this time he even got the majority vote!  So all you liberals can just keep your mouth shut.  There were no courts involved in making the final decision and GW got the popular vote.  It was a win fair and square.  Never mind the crap you guys pulled!

Things like stealing signs, slashing tires, making phony calls to people telling them to go to the wrong polling places, paying for new registrations with drugs, vandalizing and breaking in the GOP offices… I can go on and on!  For the group that claims to be all about peace and love you sure do get pretty violent and hateful!

I still love you though.  We conservatives ended up winning on our own merits even with all the dirty, rotten tricks you tried to pull.  Maybe just maybe you should take a look at the whole country, not just your fellow liberals and ask what they want.  The answer today is loud and clear!

Well sometime last night after I went to bed they decided that Ohio was going to Bush.  So here’s the numbers as of right now.  As long as all the states being counted stay where they are Bush wins.  You need 270 Electoral College votes to win and with 269 is all but guaranteed for Bush.

There are two possible outcomes.
1) Bush wins at least one more of the states currently not counted (Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico, Wisconsin) in which he then has over 270 and is the winner.

2) Kerry wins the rest in which we get a 269/269 tie.  The tie-breaker vote is made in Congress.  In which case you have two things going for Bush.  First is that Republicans control Congress so there should be little doubt where the vote will be.  Second is that Bush does have the popular vote so Congress would feel great pressure from the public to cast the tie-breaker for the winner there.

Number one is the most likely outcome.  Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico are all leaning toward Bush right now so it’s very likely that at least one will end up being called for Bush.

The dems claim Ohio is the tossup right now but I disagree.  Ohio has gone to Bush and no number of absentee or provisional ballots are going to swing it the other way.

Well nothing from Ohio yet… locally there are reports that several of the counties that went to Gore last time around is going to Bush this time, including the big one Franklin (Columbus).  Of course the numbers aren’t final so we’ll have to see yet…

I have a feeling that we won’t known Ohio for a few more hours.

I voted this morning around 11am.  I hope everyone of you that can vote had gone and done the same.  You still have time if you haven’t so get your butts off your chairs and go now!!!!

I’ll try to make a few posts tonight for local results here in Ohio.