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"Scandal" is a delicious combination of the relationship drama and love troubles we adore in Shonda Rhimes' shows (what's "Grey's Anatomy" without some steamy hookups?), set in the fast-paced world of high-level crisis management and is ripe with plenty of political intrigue.

Rhimes might be best known for her TV medical dramas ("Grey's" and "Private Practice"), but "Scandal" proves that she can shake up her proven format and still find success. Kerry Washington stars as Olivia Pope, a high-powered D.C.-based "fixer" who has resolved some of the country's biggest scandals. She was the President's communications director and go-to gal, and is now running her own outfit that caters to the who's who of Washington, D.C., and beyond.

We've got an exclusive sneak peek at the show's premiere episode (Thurs., Apr. 5, 10 p.m. ET on ABC) that shows Olivia Pope in action. The biggest takeaway: You don't want to be on the receiving end of a call from Olivia Pope & Associates.

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Huffington Post: Rick Santorum Has Finally Realized That Every State's Primary System Is 'Different'

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 10:45 AM PDT

Byron York has a piece up today about Rick Santorum's campaign and its "new delegate math" that really doesn't expand too much on all of the reports on the "new delegate math" that everyone reported on last week. (To review, Santorum believes he's much closer to Romney in the delegate count than is currently being reported; his case hinges on Florida and Arizona being compelled to distribute their delegates proportionally, and the Santorum campaign's ability to max out its delegate-wrangling at any number of forthcoming delegate conventions in states across the country.) What does seem to be new, however, is that the Santorum campaign appears to finally understand that the process by which each state awards delegates is, you know, pretty complicated!

"Here's one of the things that I can tell you I didn't know," Santorum told a small group of reporters at a breakfast in Washington on Monday. "Every single state is different. Every state. Every single state is different. It's different on how you get on the ballot. It's different on their structure, how they allocate delegates, whether they are bound, whether they are unbound, when they're committed, how long they committed, how they're selected. Our math is actually based on the reality of what's going on in the states."

There was probably no better precipitating event for this realization than the recently concluded Louisiana primary. Santorum won this contest in a 20-point blowout, and big blowouts translate into large delegate hauls, right? Not in Louisiana. There, only 20 of the state's 46 delegates were at stake the night of the vote, and Romney, having cleared a 25 percent popular vote threshold, will take a share of that tally. On top of that, Louisiana's allocation rules were so obscure and unique that just about every single one of us who wrote curtain-raisers on the primary, myself included, got it wrong. (See Mark Blumenthal's post on the Louisiana primary for details.)

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