Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader has voted already. In fact he voted this morning. The whole experience took him about 4 minutes. He was the 257th person to vote in his precinct. On most election days (he tends to vote at the same time most elections - the morning rush is done and lunch has not yet begun), he is normally he is between the 40th and 60th person to vote.

He voted as he has indicated he would. He did go ahead an pull the trigger for Mark Warner for Senate. If Warner turns out to be a typical Democrat (which one can argue he was not in the Governor’s mansion) in the Senate your Maximum Leader will be sadly disappointed. He will also never vote for Warner again… But he gets one try (especially since your Maximum Leader didn’t vote for him for Governor).

Your Maximum Leader also voted for a roads bond issue. Normally he is contrarian and votes against bond issues. But given the crappy economy and all the construction type people in the region needing work, he opted for a little “pump priming.”

Your Maximum Leader has also received 5 recorded calls from Senator McCain, Governor Palin, Mark Warner, and Rob Wittman (your Maximum Leader’s congressman) to get out and vote.

Your Maximum Leader was offered a drink by the kind people supporting Barack Obama in front of the polling place. And by drink he means coffee or a soft drink. Discovering that the Obama supporters only had regular Coke (not Diet) your Maximum Leader declined the offer. If they had Diet Coke your Maximum Leader would have gladly taken a coke…

So, your Maximum Leader must run an errand or two… Then he thinks it is a night of computer games and fine Scotch for him…

Carry on.