Quote Originally Posted by paper mache
"In the kingom of the blind the one-eyed man is king"

That basicly sum's up whats been going on in konoha. Thru Chaotic and disorderly times usually the evil person "Danzo" will take his step upon the pedastal and he must be able to somewhat hold down the fort if the advisor's agreed upon this, therefore he must no how to throw down or maybe he is just very good with war strategies .
It seems as if he's got plans bigger than just pulling strings. And now his strings have gotten thicker and stronger, and he has more of them now that he has total unofficial control and say over all jounin activities.. Till the jounins come in and do their voting that is. I personally like how he can't make his 'plans' happen just yet. He still has one final test to pass before he's official. It was smart of Kishi to pull this off because hopefully we'll be getting some faithful village jounin love getting mad at the fact that he was elected in the first place. I can think of a ton of jounin who won't be happy with this decision. Kakashi, Gai, Kurenai, mostly people who loved the teachings of the third. To name a few. Plus, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the first time since he became a new jounin, that Neji will be voting for a hokage.