Well, Virginians did not take the bait of negative campaigning – they rejected Republican Kilgore and elected Kaine (52% to 46%). Yea! I can breath a bit easier. Hopefully that will make future politicians think twice about negative campaigning. Unfortunately the democrat Leslie Byrne did not have as good luck with her bid for Lt Governer (lost 51% to 49%). And the jury is still out for Attorney General (50% to 50%).
So none of the wins were a huge victory…let’s hope that they get the message that we need to find a common middle ground…(but I will say I am glad that it is a Dem in the top position!)
So now I just need to find out why Virginia has a one consecutive term limit for our governor…I would have loved to have kept Warner for another 4 years.
It’s because a one term governor can’t really accomplish that much. Year 1 is spent learning his job – year 4 he is a lame duck.
The practice result is that all the real power in VA resides in the legislature, and they will never, ever relinquish it by approving the more traditional two consecutive terms limit.
Chris
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Ok..so that makes sense as to why it won’t be changed in the near future. But any ideas of where to look to find out the story behind when it was changed? I believe that it was put into the Va constitution sometime in the 1800s…
I find the stories behind history fascinating….