Bitterness lingers among many of them.
Yet even though Mr. Gephardt's voting record has remained fairly consistent in recent years, the accusation that he lacks a core lingers among his critics.
Still, a bitterness lingers among top financial donors to Mr. Romney, many of whom had considered Mr. Christie a powerful ally — a blustery and emotional figure on the campaign trail who compensated for Mr. Romney's mechanical and staid presence.
But the effort has been complicated both by the logistical difficulty of sorting out who owns long-abandoned or disputed plots and the extreme fear that still lingers among those who left.
Still, the question lingers among many Democrats: What dissuaded Mr. Andrews, who shortly after Mr. Corzine's election as governor defiantly declared, "If he appoints someone else, it is my intention to run, and I am preparing to run".
A suspicion lingers among some that gothic answers only to the teenager's melodramatic instincts (TS Eliot diagnosed a taste for Edgar Allan Poe as fatally adolescent), its terrors as ultimately unserious as saying "Boo!".
