ceitagh,

I think you are right in many respects. However, deception by politicians isn't really anything new around here. Franklin D. Roosevelt got around using a wheelchair after he lost the ability to walk because of polio. Most of the American public new nothing about it at the time. F.D.R. didn't want people to know he couldn't walk because he was afraid he would be percieved as being weak.

It's a state of affairs that's been around for a long, long time, I think.

My own opinion about the majority of people voting is that it's not going to happen as long as we have the electoral college.

Respectfully,

Carol