At this point I believe that the Democrats had all this information, and decided it would be better to embarrass the GOP by letting this guy win and THEN dripping out all the scandal. Surely they aren't so incompetent that they didn't have *any* of this stuff
By the same token, either the Republicans knew, or they were totally incompetent at vetting their own candidate, and not just once.
We are talking a criminal winning House seat. What is disturbing is he does not even appear to be very good at it.
Speaking of not very good at it, Dan Quayle and Kamala Harris? Sarah Palin? Admiral Stockdale?