"The people all said, 'Sit down, sit down, you're rockin' the boat.'"

— Nicely-Nicely Johnson, "Guys and Dolls"

In the recent Kyoto governor's election, the winning candidate, Tadatoshi Nishiwaki, was the former governor's handpicked successor who was heavily backed by all of the ruling and opposition parties except the Japanese Communist Party. Nishiwaki also had the support of the Kyoto mayor, the business community, and the head of every city and town in the prefecture.