The Simpson trials may not have changed anyone's electoral fortunes.
At the same time, no one is betting against Holbrooke now that Al Gore's electoral fortunes are rising.
And it would be fair to say that the vicissitudes of electoral fortunes were as hot a topic as those of peer group approval.
The Australian Democrats' electoral fortunes have fluctuated throughout their history.
For both men, national economic disaster was electoral good fortune.
The party has about 35,000 individual members, although this figure tends to fluctuate along with the party's electoral fortunes.
This did not help the party's electoral fortunes, however; all its candidates again were defeated, and Green (running in Kildonan) received only 445 votes.
Ironically, Willis's personal electoral fortunes improved after his resignation as leader.
But the wheel of electoral fortune has turned, and suddenly Vice President Dan Quayle is at the center of things.
The party tested its electoral fortunes in the 1972 Uxbridge by-election but performed poorly.