Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...little to placate worried Republicans, who are preparing for life under a Democrat-led House, which will mean the loss of subpoena power and committee chairmanships that comes with defeat. G.O.P. strategists blamed the defeat on two factors: badly run races in the northeast and the wave of scandal that overtook the party. "The scandal seats clearly hurt us and our performance in the northeast was not good," said National Republican Campaign Committee spokesman Carl Forti. But he claimed some solace in races the party appeared likely to pull out in Connecticut and Georgia...
...Scandal took a predictable toll on the G.O.P. In Pennsylvania, 20-year House veteran Curt Weldon fell to the square-jawed Admiral and Clinton administration official, Joe Sestak. Also in Pennsylvania, political newcomer Christopher Carney downed four-term incumbent Don Sherwood, who pleaded with voters to forgive his marital infidelity, apparently to no avail. In Ohio, the Democrat Zack Space pummeled Joy Padgett, the hand-picked replacement of Rep. Bob Ney, who resigned amid an investigation of his ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff...
...TIME: In the end, is the Congressman Mark Foley sex scandal less of a factor than it might have looked like...
...going to see people going into the voting booth and saying: I'm going to vote Democrat because of the disgusting things that Mark Foley said to a page. But campaigns are kind of organic. They have a certain growth and a certain progression about them. Scandals tend not to be voting issues, but they tend to be major interruptions, and they tend to cause all kinds of tactical and even strategic problems. Because what happens to a party or an individual candidate who is caught up in one of these things in the middle of a campaign is that...
...Meanwhile, Republicans have been rocked by problems in their own ranks, first by the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, which resulted in the resignation of one lawmaker, the retirement of a second and lengthened the odds of reelection of several other previously safe members. More recently, the Mark Foley scandal involving inappropriate contacts with House pages opened up another seat and put the party on the defensive for several weeks...