Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton was cruising toward a clear majority of the popular vote and perhaps more than 400 electoral votes until two weeks ago, when the scandal surrounding D.N.C. fund raiser John Huang began to bite. Clinton lost ground he had held for months in part because he seemed to be forgetting the lessons he had learned about arrogance. He refused to answer questions about his party's fund-raising practices; this week the White House dribbled out new details of additional meetings between shadowy lobbyists and Administration officials, including the President. Ross Perot's sure slide toward oblivion was halted...
...midst of a furor over the removal of files from Vince Foster's office. The President's thinking was that by removing Whitewater from the political arena and putting it into the hands of an independent counsel, he would buy time for his legislative agenda and eliminate the burgeoning scandal as an issue in the midterm congressional elections and, if necessary, in his own re-election campaign...
Penn and Schoen began polling to gauge the fallout from the Morris debacle and discovered that there wasn't any. In fact, 37% of voters said the scandal made them more likely to vote for Clinton. The pollsters could offer no explanation of why this should be so. When Penn reported it at the meeting, Gore looked over at the couch where Penn and Schoen were sitting. "If things get tight," he said with a smile, "one of y'all's gonna have to go next...
...offices of the conservative Free Congress Foundation, a group of congressional staff members meet once a week to plot strategy for the next four years. Lately they have been talking about the need to set up quickly a Select Committee on Impeachment in the House. Their hopes hinge on scandal plus the all but inevitable recession. A lot of Republicans are hoping they don't have to do any rethinking at all. Maybe the best formula for the future of their party is just to do whatever makes Clinton's second term miserable, then sit back and wait...
Morris, who resigned last August after a sex scandal, is working on a book to be published soon by Random House...