The sleaze factor has not been directly linked to quality.

"How can you deal with the sleaze factor without yourself going through the same type of tactics?"

But there is no corner on, on this sleaze factor.

The sleaze factor is slipping back into the White House.

Republicans hope to neutralize the "sleaze factor" that Democrats are using with effect.

Once the sleaze factor became established in the popular mind, it was invaluable to Martin's people.

Theandra, I'd say that was a little more than sliding with the sleaze factor!

These strategists point out that the Democrats planned to use the "sleaze factor" in the 1984 campaign, but the issue never got off the ground.

Users say there can be a sleaze factor.

"The sleaze factor," people called it as charges of impropriety, even crime, mounted against one senior official after another.

That way, they say, he will stay visible all year, and remind voters about the "sleaze factor" right through Election Day.

The sleaze factor has escalated as Wednesday’s Congressional hearing grows closer.

Democrats are making more of the "sleaze factor" as George Bush becomes the likely Republican nominee.

Democratic strategists and candidates are already trying out attacks on what they like to call the "sleaze factor" in the Reagan Administration.

There was also the sleaze factor.

A player drawing a "sleaze factor" card must match local politicians with wildly insulting descriptions.

Call it the sleaze factor.

President Bush yesterday finally faced up to the Reagan legacy of easy ethical virtue - the sleaze factor - and he blinked.

Or that gossip didn't start with tabloids and television, and that technology is pushing the sleaze factor to new lows.

Q. Sir, how much ammunition do you think that this gives Michael Dukakis on the so-called sleaze factor?

A formidable fund-raiser for his party, he knows how relentlessly Democrats campaigned against the sleaze factor in the Reagan Administration.

Mr. Bush has tried to set a high ethical standard that would contrast with the "sleaze factor" so often cited during the Reagan Administration.

Republicans are anxious about the "sleaze factor" and the impact the Meese problem may have on Mr. Bush's political prospects.

David Sanborn - saxophone on "The Sleaze Factor"

Obviously, "Jolson Sings Again" coincides with the sleaze factor that defines contemporary politics, rules popular taste and perpetuates media overkill.