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public response to the watergate disclosures had electoral ramifications the republican party lost four seats in the senate and 48 seats in the house at the 1974 mid-term elections and ford's pardon of nixon is widely agreed to have contributed to his election defeat in 1976 a word combined with the suffix "-gate" has become widely used to name scandals even outside the ushamilton dagmar s "the nixon impeachment and the abuse of presidential power" in watergate and afterward the legacy of richard m nixon leon friedman and william f levantrosser eds santa barbara ca greenwood publishing group 1992 smith ronald d and richter william lee fascinating people and astounding events from american history santa barbara ca abc-clio 1993 lull james and hinerman stephen media scandals morality and desire in the popular culture marketplace new york columbia university press 1997 and especially in politicstrahair rcs from aristotelian to reaganomics a dictionary of eponyms with biographies in the social sciences santa barbara ca greenwood publishing group 1994