This is the website of Louis J. Cassorla, who ran for president of the United States of America in the 02008 election cycle.

I expect to soon move my blog to the main page of my site, and to keep the campaign site's archive available. That means that this current home page will disappear.

It's worth mentioning here that I am absolutely thrilled that the Americal electorate has chosen Barack Obama as the next president. Congratulations, to the U.S.A. and to the world! Things should finally start getting better. (Fingers crossed.)

The idea of my campaign was fairly simple. Basically, it boiled down to this: Voting is a good thing. Voting for the conventional candidates (those presented by the political parties) may not be a good thing for you—and you may even find the prospect to be unpalatable. I was merely volunteering my name as an alternative. I did not seek a victory and I did not get one. Instead, I aimed to help send a message.

I am a believer in the ideals of democracy. I am also a believer that our current political system does not uphold those ideals very well—not because it is a constitutionally flawed system, but rather because it has evolved (devolved?) into an unhealthy situation.

Here's how the math worked in 2004:

• Just about 60% of eligible voters actually bothered to vote. That's a national embarrassment, and yet there are those who would have you believe that it's a fantastic turnout.
• Of that 60%, G.W. Bush got just slightly over 50% of the vote, and he took it as a mandate from the people.
• That means that Bush won by getting less than 1/3 of the votes that could have been cast.
• Let me rephrase that: The number of people who did not vote for anyone (but could have) is MILLIONS more than the number of people who voted for the winner.

I happen to believe that the people who did not vote are, to a large degree, people who just couldn't stomach the idea of voting for either candidate. This is a very different idea from the message the politicians choose to extract from the statistics. The politicians believe that non-voters are perfectly content and simply have the utmost faith in their fellow Americans to make the right decision.

To that, I say, "Hogwash!"