Word: scandalizer
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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...
...ousted the old bull Clay Shaw, as powerful a congressman as the State of Florida has. That loss will surely be read as retribution for the Bush Administration's push to partially privatize Social Security, and will also be seen as a rebuke to the G.O.P. for the Foley scandal in neighboring Miami...
...battleground races went blue. Top G.O.P. leaders fought off tough challenges in New York and Ohio. Tough pol Tom Reynolds of upstate New York threw off his entanglement in the Mark Foley scandal to beat populist millionaire Jack Davis, and Ohio's Deborah Pryce, a centrist in the House leadership, pulled out her tough race against Mary Jo Kilroy. And in the tight House race in Connecticut's fourth district, Chris Shays was leading Diane Farrell in a death-defying G.O.P. win in hostile territory...
...Burns, battling personal scandal with his links to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff as well as voter discontent with the Iraq war, congratulated Tester, a farmer and state legislator...