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Would you vote to re-elect Sen. Ensign in light of his affair and the payments to his mistress' family?

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Total of 1,907 votes - click on the "Display Comments" bar below to sort comments

91%
No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.
1,735 votes
6.6%
Yes. What the lawmaker does in his personal life has no bearing on his fitness for public office.
125 votes
2.5%
Not sure. It's too early to make a call on an election that is still several years away.
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No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

What??? This is the BEST white Christian man the GOP can find in NV? If this guy gets re-elected it say a LOT about what's wrong in the USA

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  • 3 votes
 - 9:19 pm EDT on Tue Jul 14, 2009
No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

I have trouble voting for people who publicly espouse one position while doing entirely something else themselves.

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  • 3 votes
 - 9:38 pm EDT on Tue Jul 14, 2009
No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

No way, sick of the double standard set by the GOP, their CStreet hyprocracy, holier than thou attitude - a sin is a sin - regardless.

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  • 2 votes
 - 10:18 pm EDT on Tue Jul 14, 2009
No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

The Republicans are so disingenuous - if he was a Democrat - they would scream for his head. I hope he runs. It will help the Dems.

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  • 2 votes
 - DeeToo
 - 10:32 pm EDT on Tue Jul 14, 2009
No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

Absolutely NOT - this guy is a lying pig! Please, spare the country and go away!!

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  • 3 votes
 - 11:10 pm EDT on Tue Jul 14, 2009
No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

The man purported to be someone he's not! I'm sick of these family value canidates with feet of clay....

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     - 11:59 pm EDT on Tue Jul 14, 2009
    No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

    Oh, I hope he does. Watching a self-righteous hypocrite "family-values" type run for re-election after his obscene actions is delicious!

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    • 2 votes
     - 12:34 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
    No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

    Kick him out. But we need to apply the same std to both the Rs and Ds.

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    • 2 votes
     - 12:55 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
    No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

    I don't care about his affair as much as I can't tolerate self-righteous politicians who don't practice what they preach. Demand more!

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    • 2 votes
     - 1:16 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
    No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

    Looks like the Dems will be picking up another seat.

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    • 1 vote
     - 1:17 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
    No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

    No!

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    • 2 votes
     - sdgirl1
     - 1:22 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
    No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

    Another Republican hypocrite. He needs prison time to finally understand what he has done.

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       - 1:42 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
      No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

      the guy should be in jail

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      • 1 vote
       - 2:29 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
      No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

      I can respect a man like Sanford who did what was in his heart, but Ensign is just an unethical sleeze

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         - 2:32 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
        No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

        I couldn't care less about the affair, but the buy off shows his true colors.

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        • 2 votes
         - bobthai
         - 3:11 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
        No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

        Not only shouldn't he run again he should have resigned already!!

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        • 1 vote
         - 4:02 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
        No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

        Lately, Republican is starting to change it's definition to meaning: completely out of touch w/ reality! Insane!

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        • 1 vote
         - DMONMCD
         - 4:14 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
        No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

        not even for dog catcher.

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        • 1 vote
         - Ric E
         - 5:39 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
        No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

        his poor judgement and two terms are enough....we have plenty in office now that need to go,,,,start with this guy.

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        • 1 vote
         - 7:15 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
        No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

        Ithink its all about the pay off- involving your parents , no less- No answers about " The Family"- I am concerned about the God complex.

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        • 1 vote
         - 9:05 am EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
        No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

        Heck no! He is a liar and a cheat! He dishonored his wife and children.. Kick his behind out--forever!

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           - 8:24 am EDT on Wed Jul 29, 2009
          No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

          Obviously a man who cannot be trusted even in his own family, also member of the weird C Street 'family' - not exactly honorable is he.

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             - 9:14 am EDT on Wed Jul 29, 2009
            No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

            What!!!

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               - 9:48 am EDT on Wed Jul 29, 2009
              No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

              Youv'e got to be kidding! He used government money to pay off her family! He belongs in jail!

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                 - 11:46 am EDT on Wed Jul 29, 2009
                No. The man has shown poor judgment and should not be rewarded with another term in office.

                Pol's have no shame anymore! both parties are full of low class whores who dont give a damn about America! theres no reason to vote anymor

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                   - 12:52 pm EDT on Wed Jul 29, 2009
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                  {"commentId":8218752,"authorDomain":"dana4ta"}

                  Being a Nevadan I can't in good consience give Ensign my vote this next election. To have an affair with an employee who's spouse also works for you is bad enough. But firing them after the affiar is over and trying to pay them off with hush money is just too much.

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                  • 4 votes
                  Reply#1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:39 PM EDT
                  {"commentId":8221021,"authorDomain":"lvrose3"}

                  Being a Nevadan also, I agree. By the way, Ensign can take Gov. Gibbons out the door with him when he leaves!!!

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                  • 2 votes
                  #1.1 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:10 AM EDT
                  {"commentId":8221734,"authorDomain":"andyberschauer"}

                  I'm not a Nevadan, but I agree all the same. We need to remember that We the People put these people in office. We have the power (and responsibility) to remove them, as well as to demand better quality candidates (whether they choose to resign is largely irrelevant).

                  How do these guys get in office in the first place? I believe that as voters we have a tendency to support one party line vs another (it's alot easier than knowing something about who we vote for). As long as we make party-based decisions, we will always choose the soundbite that supports our biases rather than the track record of performance and decision-making that appeals to our values.

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                  • 2 votes
                  #1.2 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:15 AM EDT
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                  {"commentId":8219008,"authorDomain":"sujencyncar"}

                  Aren't there enough "bums" in Washington now, representing (?) the voters?? How many more slaps in the face do the voters need?

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                  • 2 votes
                  Reply#2 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:55 PM EDT
                  {"commentId":8219132,"authorDomain":"jrsteel4035"}

                  My "family" doesn't follow these "values"... does yours?

                  The GOP needs to clean house, and hope that after they do, people will truly believe that they represent family values, instead of the trashy actions they are now desperately trying to defend.

                  If they put Sarah "Quittin' Kitten" Palin on the ticket, count on Dem rule until 2016, and beyond. Rightfully so.

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                  • 3 votes
                  Reply#3 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:04 PM EDT
                  {"commentId":8222240,"authorDomain":"ervinst"}

                  considring the so called values we have all seen so far from the washington group....this guy is no different...consider....they allowed Clinton to chase women around the whitehouse...why not this fool too. Seems a number of them could get caught on this same item if a real investigation of washington was done..and if not the same thing surely on something else...and its time it happened.

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                  • 1 vote
                  #3.1 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:21 AM EDT
                  {"commentId":8223151,"authorDomain":"sms29s"}

                  He can chase women all he wants. What he cannot do and remain politically viable is pay them off with campaign funds and get his parents to pay hush money. What he cannot do and remain politically viable is chase women and run on a family values platform. He has to choose.

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                  • 2 votes
                  #3.2 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:56 AM EDT
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                  {"commentId":8219801,"authorDomain":"wshryer"}

                  These two members of the weird church House Ensign and Sanford need to stop helping the Democrats with their holier than thou narcissistic behavior.

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                  • 2 votes
                  Reply#4 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:55 PM EDT
                  {"commentId":8223189,"authorDomain":"sms29s"}

                  The news on Sanford gets more delicious by the minute. He ignored 15 calls from his office and blew off an appointment with a company interested in doing business in South Carolina. How long will the party be able to protect him?

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                  • 2 votes
                  #4.1 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:59 AM EDT
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                  {"commentId":8220863,"authorDomain":"Claudia3"}

                  Is it just me, or does this once nice-looking guy suddenly look like a sleazball?

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                  • 1 vote
                  Reply#5 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:46 AM EDT
                  {"commentId":8220987,"authorDomain":"ghall1950"}

                  I wouldn't vote for him! He is not only an immoral liar, he is a USER, and used his powers to have this affair by giving her raises and her husband better positions.

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                  • 2 votes
                  Reply#6 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:05 AM EDT
                  {"commentId":8221083,"authorDomain":"geehart"}

                  When asking Larry Craig to resign, Senator Ensign said that if he were in the same position he hoped that he would have the strength of character to resign. Hm-m-m. Guess not. 

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                  • 2 votes
                  Reply#7 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:20 AM EDT
                  {"commentId":8229366,"authorDomain":"bodeet"}

                  These people work for us, it's time to start sending pink slips!

                  kickthemallout.com

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                  • 2 votes
                  Reply#8 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:21 PM EDT
                  {"commentId":8233146,"authorDomain":"jherzog"}

                  The first question should be "Should Sen Ensign be charged with a felony for trying to bribe an employee, or their family, with income derived from public funds for committing a personal discretion that would be unacceptable to his public taxpayers who indirectly paid for this "bribery".

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                  • 2 votes
                  Reply#9 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:37 PM EDT
                  {"commentId":8233372,"authorDomain":"zyke"}

                  He should resign - and NOW!!!  The "holier than thou" Right wing are hypocrites!!!!   Get rid of this "Family Values" platform CR++ too!!

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                  • 2 votes
                  Reply#10 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:46 PM EDT
                  {"commentId":8240955,"authorDomain":"rradiko"}

                  Whenever someone says, "REPUBLICAN," I can't help but have this twisted image in my mind, of a, "CLOSET PERVERT." You know, they kind of guy that tries to sell himself as being a "straight arrow" that hates gays and claims to be the moral epitomy of white Christianity... but behind closed doors he turns into a cross-dressing, S&M, pedophile homosexual engaging in extramarital orgies with barnyard animals!

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                  • 2 votes
                  Reply#11 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:05 PM EDT
                  {"commentId":8248607,"authorDomain":"justplainloser99"}

                  The few bad apples seem to love being on TV. I feel bad for real Republicans who have to deal with this.

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                  • 1 vote
                  #11.1 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:51 PM EDT
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                  {"commentId":8245908,"authorDomain":"greg-24"}

                  The same people who forgave President Clinton for soiling Monica's dress,for Barney Frank's prostitute boy friend,for Ted Kennedy's disregard for Mary-Joe's life.Wouldn't forgive Sen.Ensign..

                  Let's not forget Jefferson,who is on trial, how about Sen Byrd's KKK affiliation. How about John Edwards,now there is real upstanding guy....What about Spitzer? Another real nice Democrat..

                  What a bunch of hypocrits....The only reason is he is a Republican,if he was a Democrat,it would be just fine with you.

                  People in glass house's...

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                    Reply#12 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:41 AM EDT
                    {"commentId":8248635,"authorDomain":"justplainloser99"}

                    The difference is... those people didn't run on a family values platform, work to get Clinton impeached while doing exactly the same thing he was, and telling people how to run their lives.

                    It's the hypocrisy that pisses off most people.

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                    • 1 vote
                    #12.1 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:52 PM EDT
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                    {"commentId":8248030,"authorDomain":"VigilancePOV"}

                    I think he should run and keep running for the senate for the rest of his life because it would show how pure of heart the republicans are and they wouldn't tolerate such behavior because they would criticize the despicable act before they did it themselves.

                    You know the republicans with purity of heart would criticize, chastise, demonize such despicable behavior like having sex with young children congressional pages, or picking up men in Minnesota airport men's restrooms and doing the "you know what" with wide stances, or helping himself to pick up men in Florida's rest area's men's room and once caught by the police telling them with a gleeful smile on his face that a bunch of black men force me to do it, while helping a former New York mayor run for the presidency, or heading down the Ole Appalachian Trail to clear his head and his plumbing, or receive millions of dollars in kickbacks with a mansion and yacht's while being a Vietnam War Ace with honor, or being the head of a political party and popping and over dosing on Oxycotin that you lose your hearing and go down to the Dominican Republic and pick up a bunch of whore and then try to smuggle in bottles of Viagra back into America, or be the leader of the Dixiecrat's and criticize your fellow party politician for fathering a black child when you had one of your own and so on and so on, etc, etc, etc......, it's to long of a list that the republicans would criticize and never do themselves because they the, republicans [The C st. FAMILY ( Sen. Coburn, Sen. Ensign, Gov. Sanford, Rep. Wamp, Sen. Brownback, Sen. Grassley, Sen. Inhofe) and other men living together under one roof] would say those actions are disgusting and need to be condemned, because if they criticize, condemned, demonized other and did themselves, why, why that would be.......... should I type it!

                    Missy Nelly B. come here child!!!...... Should I type this word my dear! .........

                    HYPOCRISY!!!!!!  Oh dear Lord why?

                    Ooops! never mind.

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                      Reply#13 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:21 PM EDT
                      {"commentId":8248341,"authorDomain":"VigilancePOV"}

                      REPUBLICANS=666 AND HORNY AS HELL!!!!

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                        Reply#14 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:36 PM EDT
                        {"commentId":8395331,"authorDomain":"huffer"}

                        Where would America be today if all of you fools that say he should not be allowed to serve were alive when Jefferson, Franklin and the good old boys were alive. Americans know very little of it's own history. How sad and stupid!

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                          Reply#15 - Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:52 PM EDT
                          {"commentId":8499698,"authorDomain":"rapidlapd"}

                          Politicians are not Saints, just ask Bill Clinton. He couldnt keep things in his pants either. Why worrry about a Senator when nobody cares what a President does over and over again. Does the term double standard mean anything to a bunch of Democratic hypocrits. People who live in thin skin shouldnt play with sharp tongues.

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                            Reply#16 - Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:09 AM EDT
                            {"commentId":8633745,"authorDomain":"andyberschauer"}

                            I don't care about the state of Ensign's zipper any more than I cared about the state of Clinton's. I do care about the hypocrisy & self-righteousness on display, though. Running on Family Values, calling on Clinton to resign because of Lewinsky, etc. This is less a case of double standards than it is a case of Ensign living in his own "glass house".

                            I suspect it's the self-righteous hypocrisy that pisses people off more than his affair. I know it is for me...

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