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Clinton managed to survive politically despite several sexual indiscretions. He won the presidency in 1992 after revelations of an affair with Arkansas state employee Gennifer Flowers. He won re-election in 1996 after being sued by Paula Jones in 1994 on claims of sexual harassment while he was governor of Arkansas. And then, of course, there was the Lewinsky scandal.
But not all politicians find voters or their parties that forgiving. U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., resigned from Congress after he used Twitter to send a picture of his crotch to a woman … less than a year after he was married. Eliot Spitzer resigned in 2008 after revelations the married New York governor was involved with prostitutes. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to an affair in 2009 and was forced to resign as chairman of the Republican Governors Association, but he finished out his term in 2011. Most recently, Herman Cain suspended his GOP presidential campaign after several women came forward with claims of sexual harassment.
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