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...knows this much knows that news networks don’t always get it right either. One might call to mind the U.S. Presidential election of 2000 when a candidate was dubiously named victorious when the results were not in, or, more recently, when on one station disgraced Congressman Mark Foley was incorrectly labeled “D-FL” suggesting he was a Democrat, not a Republican. Countless instances of fact distortion surrounding the U.S. war in Iraq, the presence of weapons of mass destruction, and the alleged links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, have occurred...
...Buoyed by rural Christian evangelicals, Corker outlasted five-term Congressman Harold Ford Jr. by 51% to 48% of the vote, ending for now Ford's bid to become the first African American from the South since Reconstruction to join the Senate...
...Oppenheimer, however, thinks the election eve ads Corker put out attacking Ford's family - his father is a once-indicted former Congressman, his uncle awaiting a bribery trial from his state lawmaker past in Memphis - kept Ford on the defensive in the late stages. Corker also benefited from Ford's ill-advised attempt to disrupt a Corker press conference late in the race, adds Oppenheimer...
...race in Florida, popular State Senator Ron Klein ousted the old bull Clay Shaw, as powerful a congressman as the State of Florida has. That loss will surely be read as retribution for the Bush Administration's push to partially privatize Social Security, and will also be seen as a rebuke to the G.O.P. for the Foley scandal in neighboring Miami...
...Tester won only 14 of the 56 counties, and some of those, just barely. But it was apparently enough. So Montana, which overwhelmingly re-elected its lone G.O.P. Congressman, essentially remains a red state. Brian Schweitzer's election in 2004 to governor can be considered a fluke, as he was running against a scandal-ridden, incompetent G.O.P. incumbent. Neither his victory, nor Tester's, can be considered a trend toward blue in the West, as some Eastern pundits have interpreted it. Voters in those traditional G.O.P. counties demonstrated that no amount of scandal could sour them on Burns...