With Hillary Rodham Clinton’s questionable e-mail practices in the news, many people have asked whether it will matter for the 2016 election. And the most typical answer is that it won’t matter much, if at all. …
Larry Sabato writes that if you examine presidential elections since 1900 “you’ll find that scandal has seldom played any conclusive role.” That is mostly true, but it leaves out one of the few times that scandal arguably did play a role. Interestingly, the Clintons were involved, but it was Al Gore that suffered. CONT.
Jeremy Pope (Brigham Young U.), Monkey Cage