Obama’s ‘Scandal-Free’ Streak Sets Record

Yesterday Barack Obama officially broke George W. Bush’s record for the longest scandal-free streak by a president in the post-Watergate era—at least by one political scientist’s criteria. Dartmouth professor Brendan Nyhan ran a study earlier this year on presidential scandals, which he defines as “widespread elite perception of wrongdoing….

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Obama’s ‘Scandal-Free’ Streak Sets Record

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