Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Florida: Scandal's End? Seeking re-election in a Republican-leaning district was only one of Democratic Representative Tim Mahoney of Florida's obstacles. An ABC News report followed by his own admission of multiple extramarital affairs last month now looks like his undoing. With about 40% of Congressional District 16's voters reported, Mahoney is down more than 20 percentage points to Republican attorney Tom Rooney of the Pittsburgh Steelers ownership family. It's been quite a month for Mahoney - the sex scandal revelations, the subsequent divorce filing by his wife and a likely election loss. - By Hector Florin...
...embarrassing computer glitch in 2002 sealed the consortium's fate; it was shuttered soon after and replaced by a different set of pollsters that serve the National Election News Pool. But this organization suffered its own scandal in 2004 when exit poll data was leaked online around midday on Election Day, prompting bloggers to declare John Kerry the presumptive winner. In 2006, the pollsters began quarantining representatives of the NEP to prevent such leaks from occurring...
...should I vote? Some argue that I should vote to change the result of the election. But the chance of a presidential election coming down to one vote is on the order of one in ten million (and imagine the scandal and litigation if it actually happened...
...cycle got its most vigorous workout during the whirlwind introduction of Sarah Palin. John McCain's Veep passed from surprise (who is this woman?) to novelty (beauty queen who shoots moose) to scandal (her daughter's pregnant) to obituary (will McCain drop her?) to resurrection (she's a pit bull with lipstick) to skepticism (but can she appeal beyond the base?) at the speed of a snowmobile...
...Airing the Facts on Ayers Who cares what Ayers did nearly 40 years ago [Oct. 20]? It's what he's doing now that matters. Let us not forget that at least two major Republican figures incarcerated following their conspiracies during the Watergate scandal - Jeb Magruder and Charles Colson - rehabilitated themselves as respected members of the clergy. Stephen V. Gilmore, Charlotte...