Back in the 60s then Socred Forestry Minister Robert Sommers was caught taking bribes. While the scandal was hot, but before he was found guilty, there was a provincial election. Sommers was re-elected in a landslide.

In 1976 the Socreds were accused of dirty tricks and the issue was kept alive by the NDP and the Media. In 1979 the Socreds won a general election. In 1979-80 there was a great fuss about a strange sliver of land that went from Grace McCarthy’s unsafe riding into a safe constituency. There was a huge kafuffle and the Socreds were handily re-elected.

By 1991 the famous Nanaimogate scandal was breaking involving NDP stalwarts and the NDP won a landslide victory.

In early 1996, after Premier Harcourt had resigned over his inability to deal with Nanaimogate not only did it still have legs but a new scandal emerged – Hydrogate where NDP insiders got special deals out of a BC Hydro subsidiary. Glen Clark won the 1997 election.

It seems to me that the media care far more about scandals than electors do