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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (29955)	2/16/2004 3:11:35 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793674

It's neither here nor there how many have extra-marital affairs, really. Whatever the number, it's not uncommon. Does that make it a good thing? I don't think so. I'm a firm believer in honoring commitments and keeping one's word, even if I am not particularly attached to the institution of marriage. But whatever the number is, it doesn't support the notion that most people wouldn't vote for someone simply over an extra-marital affair. For CB and others mathematically challenged, Try looking at it this way. Half of marriages end in divorce. So you start out with about half the population not treating marriage vows as sacred. It's no stretch to get to sixty percent from there. Remember, that's over a lifetime. It only takes one little slip in a lifetime, one bad patch in one marriage, one overseas duty station, to get counted. And don't forget that there are such things as open marriages. And extenuating circumstances, like an institutionalized spouse. And then there are the couples who are separated pending a divorce, getting a jump on the next marriage...