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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (302173)9/4/2006 10:10:47 AM
From: combjelly   of 1577025
 
"Were there a number of examples of corruption?"

Yes. Abscam, for one. There were others.

"Small incidents or large ones?"

Compared to what we are seeing now, they were pretty small. The Republicans seem to be bound an determined to outdo the Democrats on this front.

"but I wonder if the GOP takeover had as much to do with GOP spin and the trashing of the Dems as it had to do with Dem. corruption."

Corruption was only part of it. The biggest factor was that people were dissatisfied and wanted a change. The Democrats were the party in power, so....
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