Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader has decided to make a few endoresments and predictions on ye olde blogge for the election tomorrow.
First off, if you are a resident of Virginia, your Maximum Leader feels that you can vote for both Constitutional Amendments with clear conscience. The first establishes that if there is a special election or appointment to a US House, State Senate, or State House of Delegates between the time that districts are redrawn after a census, and the next general election; that the old districts will be used. This amendment was put forth to correct a little bit of craziness we had here in the Old Dominion in 2001. We had a number of special elections for State Senate and House of Delegates and at the time it wasn’t clear if the new post-census districts were to be used or the old pre-census districts were to be used. This Amendment makes it clear that in this case the old pre-census districts are used.
The Second Amendment proposal just adds more elected officals to the official sucession to the office of Governor. Right now the succession is: Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and Speaker of the House of Delegates. The new succession is: Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Speaker of the House of Delegates, Successor to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, President of the State Senate, and Majority Leader of the State Senate. While the whole “successor to the Speaker of the House of Delegates” is quirky, it isn’t so quirky that one shouldn’t vote for the Amendment.
FYI, this will be the first year since he was eligible to vote and there have been mulitple Amendments to the State Constitution proposed that your Maximum Leader will vote for all the proposed Amendments.
On to more Endorsements.
Your Maximum Leader, as you may suspect, has decided to vote for the re-election of President Bush. All things considered, the President is most likely to give your Maximum Leader the type of leadership he is hoping for. This is not to say that the President is your Maximum Leader’s erfect choice. But he is a far sight better than is Senator Kerry.
As for the Prediction…
The Smallholder predicts a Bush win. Larry Sabato, eminent professor of government at the University of Virginia and pundit of whom your Maximum Leader hold in high regard, believes it may come down to a 269-269 tie. (Which means a Bush win.) Your Maximum Leader is going to come off his “too close to call” stance and say that one candidate will win clearly in the popular vote. That candidate will break the 51% mark. And that candidate will be George W. Bush.
But due to the way our Electoral College works, your Maximum Leader doesn’t think he can predict that outcome. Your Maximum Leader hopes that Bush will prevail handily in the Electoral voting; but with the legions of lawyers out there - fraud will be found or invented. Thus there is no telling what will happen.
And now for the “More!” part of this post…
Well… There really isn’t any more. Your Maximum Leader doesn’t have much to say. Except that if you are reading this and still undecided… Don’t vote.
Carry on.
UPDATE: There really is more. Your Maximum Leader reads that Annika has made predictions. But not only that, Annika is betting any liberal blogger to take Kerry to win (in what your Maximum Leader presumes is a straight Electoral win without interference from the courts) against her Bush to win with the loser shutting down their blog for good.
Aiieee! What a wager!
NB to Lovely Annika: Now Annika, your Maximum Leader respects your “balls” in making such a wager. And while he doesn’t think that that you will lose this one… In the highly unlikely case you do, you will be welcomed here at Nakedvillainy any time you want.
