11.   With most voters fatalistic and sidelined, the electorate settled for political gossip and tales of the shenanigans of elected characters.

12.   Pol Pot has been reported dead on several occasions in the past as the rumor mills of Southeast Asia have confused wishful thinking or political gossip with hard fact.

13.   At the National Republican Senatorial Ball, two men were overheard engaging in a bit of political gossip.