Editor and Publisher Poll Rates the Scandals
(K. Drum, via Atrios)
Weirdest thing about this is that 67% of those polled still think that Clinton-Lewinsky was important. 86% think that Plamegate is important--that's the highest for any recent scandal! Plamegate is HOT HOT HOT, rising to the top of the charts! But people have short memories. Right now Plamegate is outranking either Watergate or Iran-Contra, but will it have staying power, or will it fade into White-water-like quasi-obscurity (49%) in a few years?
Seriously, though. Excluding Plamegate which we can't really rank rationally yet, it's kinda good to see that the real scandals (Watergate, Iran-Contra) are seen as more serious than the pseudo-scandals (Whitewater, Lewinsky). But it really is kinda alarming that there's not more distance between the real scandals and the pseudo-scandals. I mean, Watergate 78% and Clinton-Lewinsky 62%????? God, that's just downright weird.
(K. Drum, via Atrios)
Weirdest thing about this is that 67% of those polled still think that Clinton-Lewinsky was important. 86% think that Plamegate is important--that's the highest for any recent scandal! Plamegate is HOT HOT HOT, rising to the top of the charts! But people have short memories. Right now Plamegate is outranking either Watergate or Iran-Contra, but will it have staying power, or will it fade into White-water-like quasi-obscurity (49%) in a few years?
Seriously, though. Excluding Plamegate which we can't really rank rationally yet, it's kinda good to see that the real scandals (Watergate, Iran-Contra) are seen as more serious than the pseudo-scandals (Whitewater, Lewinsky). But it really is kinda alarming that there's not more distance between the real scandals and the pseudo-scandals. I mean, Watergate 78% and Clinton-Lewinsky 62%????? God, that's just downright weird.
posted by Winston Smith at
5:46 PM
2 Comments:
I've been explaining those numbers to myself by the rabid press coverage of the Lewinsky scandal and by the inarguably important effect it had on Clinton's presidency.
Actually I believe those are contemporary numbers, not how the public views those old scandals now:
"Here are comparable numbers for other notable scandals in recent years, along with the month and year the poll was taken: "
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