"Fair" under the circumstances ...not discounting muscle and money power used by all sides. That is a sad but inevitable reality in Nepal. " pray that the mostly uneducated, landless and poor voting public choose wisely. " Yes, and I have much more faith in them than many of us abroad or Kathmandu's elites. Nepal's masses have made some very wise choices in the past and I can only hope they will do so again. They may be uneducated but they have proved time and again to be capable of pretty sound judgment. Again, I'd caution focusing on the punditry -which was only done to prove a point- the thrust of my argument is that the Maoists are not invincible and we should not give up the electoral fight before it has even begun. Have a good one.