A good rule of thumb is that a vast majority of alleged political scandals will have less voter impact than most people expect.
There are two main reasons for this:
First, voters look at major issues such as economic performance and the conduct of foreign wars in making their decisions.
That leaves little room for everything else.
Second, the news media may overplay the story, scandalous or otherwise, on any given day, even though it may turn out to be relatively unimportant in the context of a multiyear political cycle.
But the recent admission by the Internal Revenue Service that it targeted conservative organizations with terms like “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in their names when they applied for tax-exempt status could be an exception.
Remember that the IRS is something that touches everyone, for better or worse.
It is not an admired agency and what’s going on is something that might interest most people.
The so-called scandal reinforces the negative feelings many have about the tax collectors.
It can negatively affect the President depending on how successful the Republicans are at blaming him.
We’re just at the beginning of this so-called scandal.
For now, it’s the standard blah-blah-blah about how we don’t know just what we’ll find.
But we can guess what the political implications will be – and they’re significant.
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