Mark Hemingway: Did widespread corruption cost Democrats the election?

While seemingly everyone is lining up to offer explanations for Democrats’ historic defeat last Tuesday, one seemingly obvious reason for the GOP landslide has gone unremarked upon: Widespread, systemic corruption in the Democratic Party.

Unlike the 2006 election, when Republicans were reeling from major scandals, we heard next to nothing this year about “a culture of corruption,” thanks to a Democrat-friendly media and the fear of being publicly called racist for pointing out that the Congressional Black Caucus has a lot of bad apples. But it’s hard to deny an overwhelming amount of scandal during the last year.