Take Gary Hart. He was the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in the 1988 election, but was suspected of marital infidelities.
He dared reporters to follow him and they discovered evidence that forced him out of the race, including this now-famous picture.
“Incredibly, having a beautiful blonde sitting on his lap aboard a ship called 'Monkey Business.' How much worse can you get in terms of self-destructing?,” Lichtman said.
Other politicians have survived scandal.
Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry has been a politician for 40 years.
He was active in the civil rights movement with Dr. Martin Luther King.
In 1990, however, he was captured on an FBI surveillance camera smoking crack cocaine and served six months in prison.
Despite that setback, he was reelected mayor for a fourth term and at age 76 is now a city councilman.
“You sit and you look back and say why did I do this? What was going on in my head? You can’t do anything about that. That is done. What you can do is move forward,” Barry said.
The greatest recent example of a politician surviving scandal is former president Bill Clinton.
Despite an affair with a White House intern, he remains a popular figure.
“And now he is going to be, you know, a featured speaker at the Democratic convention and they consider him a big plus,” Lichtman said.
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