Wasn't Ernest one of the guys listed in the "all agree" banner that some of you had flashing in your sigs at one point?
Yes, I was an early proponent of the Kemperor campaign. mainly as a way of jump-starting Constitutional reform. The choice of Alcon as VP did not affect my vote, but there was talk for some time of the GOP running a second Kemperor ticket with a different VP choice. Had that happened I would have had to carefully choose between them and accounted for my reluctance to throw my support behind the combined ticket.
As for Sam Spade, if you weren’t running against an incumbent, I’d have voted for you, but the allure of votng for an incumbent Senator, no matter what his views are, carried the day.