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Events have a much shorter shelf life than they used to, making it easier for candidates to ride out a storm.

Attitudes have also changed, making transgressions no longer the career-killers they once were.

A few weeks ago, Katie Porter’s campaign for California governor was reeling . A day after an irritable TV interview went viral, an old video surfaced of the former Orange County congresswoman cursing and berating one of her aides.

Around the same time, the race for U.S. Senate in Maine was shaken by a number of disturbing online posts. In them, Democratic hopeful Graham Platner disparaged police and Black people, among other crude remarks. Soon after, it was revealed Platne

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