Uhm, Two Questions I'm Embarrassed To Ask ...

[MightyAfrodite]

1. What's a "freeper"?

2. What happens if the Prez wins the electoral college vote but not the popular vote?

(I'm sure Obama is gonna win both, but people keep talking about it and, I'm sorry to say, I'm not understanding what could happen if Question #2 comes to pass.)

Thanks!

[reflection]

1. .

A freeper is someone who hangs out at Free Republic, a right-wing website.

The president will win the election if he wins the electoral college. The popular vote is irrelevant as it pertains to that.

[Sheepshank]

2. Freeper is member of a RW board...

called Free Republic. They are extremists and sometines fun to poke and watch...kinda like an ant hill.

Electoral College wins the office of POTUS (President of the United States of America)

[nichomachus]

3. A Freeper

is a right-wing jerk who frequents a site called Free Republic.

The electoral college is the only vote that matters.

[get the red out]

4. Freepers are

People who post on "freerepublic.com" which is a very vile Republican message board of hatefulness.

If the President wins the EC and not the popular vote the "freeper" type folks, Conservatives, Fox News; will go bat shit crazy and try to make it even more impossible to get anything done in this country, IMO anyway.

[NV Whino]

5. Well,

1. Right wing nut job

2. Electoral vote is what elects the president.

[BlueState]

6. Ok here goes

1. A freeper is a denizen of the right wing discussion board freerepublic.com. You might see the term used as a generalization
for the type of right wing nut job that posts to that board.

2. In the US the president is elected by the electoral college. Just as in the case of George W. Bush the candidate who
gets 270 or more electoral votes is president regardless of what the popular vote is.

[Blue Meany]

7. Well, then Romney will sue the Electoral College to stop counting their votes, since this might

damage his reputation as the apparent winner of the election. Then the Supreme Court will take this case, rule in his favor, and determine that since the EV can't be counted, we will have to use the popular vote to decide. You know, like the original intent of the founding fathers <sarcasm, I hope>.

[MightyAfrodite]

8. Oh, OK ...

thank you all for responding. That word "freeper" had me all screwed up. I was thinking, &quot F)ar (R)ight cr(EEPER)".

I also was thinking that if the Pres won the electoral vote, but not the popular vote, that there would be some congressional policy, or something, that could put somehow, someway, his presidency in the House GOP's crosshairs.

[whttevrr]

10. "(F)ar (R)ight cr(EEPER)" ... yup ...

You were thinking right!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. OK

A Freeper is a forty year old man who still lives with his mother and makes racist remarks at a site called Free Republic.

The Electoral College determines the presidential winner.

[20895DEM]

11. What happens if Obama win the electoral college vote but not the popular vote?...

I will be just as drunk/hungover on November 7 - 9th. So many parties to attend so little time.

[JiminyJominy]

12. A Freeper

Is somoene who says "It has nothing to do with him black, I just don't like the policies he's enacted."

He usually follows it up with "I have plenty of black friends".

[Arkana]

13. 1) A Freeper is a vile, hateful, racist denizen of the 1996 HTML project shithole Free Republic.

2) This won't happen and even if it did, Obama still wins and we get to drink the delicious, delicious tears of a right-wing that's been hoisted by its own petard. I have my chant of "Sore Loserman" at the ready.

[Grammy23]

14. Don't be embarrassed to ask questions here. There are always folks here who can answer

your question quickly and accurately. It's the way we learn and if you are new here, asking what a freeper is makes perfect sense. I think your question about what will happen if Obama wins EC without winning popular vote is worth asking. The good news he is still the President .... we'll just have to listen to a lot more whining and complaining from the other side.

Welcome to DU, by the way. Ask all the questions you can think of! The only ones that are stupid or dumb are the ones you don't ask. Anyone who claims to know it all is just pulling the wool over your eyes. We all can learn something.

[MightyAfrodite]

15. Thanks for the welcome, Grammy!

[Auntie Bush]

16. Freepers are just plain old nasty ReThugs that post on hateful ReThug forums like Free Republic.

We've used the term Freeper for many years...long before there was a black man running. However, now days they are usually racist too. The long and short of it is Freepers are the Rethugs that post on forums...even DU.