CQ Election Experts: Scandals’ Effect — If Any — Will Likely Be Isolated

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CQPolitics.com asked its five-member board of advisers to weigh in on the success or failure of the 109th Congress, and how its record will affect the upcoming midterm elections.

Big surprise, only one mentioned the unfolding congressional scandals. Of the five professional analysts — David P. Rebovich, Lawrence Jacobs, Charles S. Bullock III, Susan A. MacManus and Bruce E. Cain — only Cain brought up the issue of corruption and lobbying reform:

The absence of lobbying reform is no plus for the Republicans, but apparently not a minus so far either. Perhaps a few more revelations and indictments will help generalize the issue, but until then, the effects of the Abramoff scandal will be isolated to specific races, such as Katherine Harris, Ralph Reed, Conrad Burns etc.

We’re mad as hell — but we’re happy to take it a little more?

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