Good news for the long-suffering residents of Florida! They are in a position to save vast amounts of money, time, aggravation from being subjected to campaign ads and answering polling phone calls, and have local news airtime freed up from election coverage to focus on people fallen overboard from cruise ships, eaten by alligators, run away from weddings, and other more significant topics. They can just cancel the next gubernatorial election right now, as the winner has already been declared*:

A reverend who introduced Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist during a breakfast with other pastors Monday said the Lord came to him in a dream two years ago and told him Crist would be the state’s next governor.

The Rev. O’Neal Dozier said that before the dream he did not know Crist, nor had Crist made known his plans to run for governor.

“The Lord Jesus spoke to me and he said ’There’s something I want you to know,’” said Dozier, pastor of the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach. “’Charlie Crist will be the next governor of the state of Florida.’”

And you know they always try things out in the provinces before bringing the concept to the Imperial capital…..

*(Link of an AP story via the Richmond VA Times-Dispatch. Being as I just wrote elsewhere a thundering denunciation of plagiarism, defined as “[blogs which] use content from other sites without credit and links to the original” I had better get my ass practicing what my fingers preach. I was, um, in a hurry when this was originally posted.)