The Spokesman-Review, "Frontline" reminds us, had run 189 articles about the so-called scandal.

"All of these so-called scandals can snowball and every new crumb of information turns into a front-page story above the fold," a Senate Republican aide said.

Jim Kane, a leading pollster, said he senses "there should be something from these so-called scandals, but so far it hasn't shown up in the Florida figures."

Consider the so-called corporate scandals of the early 2000s.

During his time there, he led the criticism of Shirley Porter and the so-called "homes for votes" scandal.

"This so-called scandal may make character and integrity more of an issue in 1998," Mr. Green said.

But when the Senator realized that the so-called scandal wasn't getting much political traction, he abruptly announced that the country had had enough of Whitewater.

Secondly, let me remind you that a lot of these other so-called scandals were bogus.

"These are the people at the center of your so-called scandal," he said, as aides hoisted a woman in a wheelchair into a van.

But just what is the so-called Lloyd's scandal?