Imagine that you are on your way to the voting booth, intending to vote for Candidate X.  Just as you are almost there, you hear the news:  the FBI has announced that candidate X is under investigation for (insert the worst crime you can think of).  Do you change your vote? In 1992, just a few days before what might otherwise have been President George H.W. Bush's reelection, Iran contra prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh indicted Bush's secretary of defense, Casper Weinberger.  Whoops: Bush lost the election to candidate Bill Clinton.  How many Bush voters were deterred from voting for him?  How coincidental was the timing of that indictment?  We will never know.  Weinberger was later exonerated, but by then, it was too late – Bill Clinton was president. Then, on October 28 of 2016, just a few days before the voting, Hillary Clinton was poised for election to the...(Read Full Post)