I seriously doubt the Foley scandal is going to seriously affect any race outside of his district.
Because a voter is repelled by Foley's shenanigans doesn't mean that they will abruptly abandon the GOP and embrace the party of gay marriage and abortion.
Repelled Independents will most likely say "A pox on both your houses." and stay home, which alters nothing.
The liberals are attempting to prybar a political advantage out of this but I predict that in the next few days their carefully planted bomb will go off in their faces.
Don't be surprised if within the next few days all of this is forgotten as the Dems and their hacks in the media trot out some new set of allegations.
Wouldnt be so sure. A bunch of whacko "Values" voters are talking about sitting out the election. That would make a difference in tight races. Right now I think we are going to lose 25-30 seats. The entire GOP leadership is at each others throats and no effective leadership is being offered. A number of candidates are forgoing having Hastert campaign or raise funds for them until this thing clears up. EVeryone's time and effort is going into damage control and no one is talking about our issues. Immigration was the big issue of the year and all congress could do was order a 700 mile fence to cover 2100 mile border. Reminds me of '94.
Come on... elections are effected by the rain. You don't think a week of the press screaming 'REPUBLICAN... PEDOPHILE.. LEADERSHIP... KNEW...' isn't going to effect voters?
The GOP will need to balance it with a week worth of press bashing with the new information that the 'page' was 18.. and ABC had the info for over 6 months without properly checking it.