Presidential election, 2016

[Eric the Green]

It's not quite true about scandals and sex scandals, since Bill Clinton recovered from the Jennifer Flowers affair and became the comeback kid in 1992, and recovered from the Lewinsky scandal enough so that the Republicans' pursuit of it cost them congressional seats in 1998.

Perhaps Bill Clinton's horoscope score of 19-2 plus Jupiter rising, which made him virtually invincible, accounted for his escape from scandals, when Gary Hart (10-17) was unable to, and Ted Kennedy (7-15) could never overcome the scandal of Chappaquiddick.

This year minor and unresolved scandals affected Ben Carson (horoscope score 6-6) and Chris Christie (16-22). Ronald Reagan (19-5) faced the Iran-Contra scandal, in which he was peripherally involved, and kept his office and reputation anyway. Nixon (17-6), of course, survived scandals until Watergate took him down during his Saturn Return. Hillary (12-9 plus Jupiter rising) faces minor scandals (which Republicans claim should put her in jail), which have not taken her down yet, but have weakened her against an even weaker and more-scandal prone opponent.

Sex scandals became the norm after Watergate and the Gary Hart affair. Before then, Kennedy and FDR remained immune despite their affairs.