Bolton snored lightly in his chair, the fleet status reports tumbled from his lap and scattered about the floor at his feet. Gilbert, his great-grand niece, secretary, housekeeper and companion puttered about the room doing this and that quietly. On the vid tube in the corner the Newswatch election was on. Harvey Bopper was in the lead. There were two major elections in Sol system, one decided who was going to the senate and executive offices; the other decided who was the top media broadcaster.
The media elections drew nearly twice the voter turnout than the political elections. Freddie Nimblr had been the top media man for the past two elections but wasn't running this year as he was on 'special assignment'. He had once been asked why the media elections garnered more votes, and
