Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130709:08:33:00
What do we know about how politicians recover and survive scandals? we actually know quite a lot. a study released in the "social science quarterly" last month, of course, by far my favorite bedtime reading, looked at every house race between 1972 and 2006. it separated the races where the member had a scandal referred to the house ethics committee. and then the ones where the member had no scandal like that. and you won't be surprised to learn, you win more often when you don't have a huge scandal sitting in your lap. about 87% of just non-scandal normal members of congress win re-election. o...