This article hits the nail on the head.  It ends with the hope that the American people will see through the scam, and not let him get away with it.  If you are wondering how feasible this hope is, take a look at the goings on in Juneau over the past several years, and continuing to go on right this minute and you can get an idea that if the rest of America is as happy to get the wool pulled over their eyes as Alaska voters have been, things don't look good.