The real Venus is the land of divorced women. But even inside marriages, there's a 10-percent gap between husbands and wives. That's several million couples who live together and vote differently. This was a shallow campaign. Divisions may not run as deep as they do wide.
Marriages survive and so do countries.
Half the Gore voters said the same thing about Bush. That unease has been raised in this post-election chaos. A man without a mandate or perhaps even a majority comes tarnished by doubts. On Jan. 20, Florida be damned, we will inaugurate a president. A man elected by about half of the half of the population that voted will face a divided Senate, a divided House.