By GERALD F. SEIB
The spectacle of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s dalliance in Argentina raises a fairly basic question: In American politics, is having an affair a mortal sin?
Probably not. In the 22 years since presidential candidate Gary Hart was caught sailing with an attractive young blonde on a yacht aptly named Monkey Business, American [...]

by Douglas Schoen
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The former speaker says voters are so fed up with the GOP that they might split off to form a third party in 2012. Pollster Douglas Schoen explains why that idea isn’t so loony after all.

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Newt Gingrich may be on to something.
He said last week at the College of the Ozarks in [...]