Democrats surge in Utah!
Stunning news today from KSL-TV's alternate universe: The latest "Associated Press poll" showed Democrats would take out two incumbent Utah Republicans in congressional races and the state's lone Democratic House member, Jim Matheson, would go down to GOP contender LaVar Christensen.
Oh, and Bill Clinton is Utahns' favorite ex-president.
OK, we made that last one up, but KSL did report on a "pre-election Associated Press poll," showing Democrat Christian Burridge beating Rep. Chris Cannon 45-40 percent, Demo Steve Olsen ousting Rep. Rob Bishop 45-40 percent and Matheson losing to Christensen 45-40 percent. Sen. Orrin Hatch beat Dem Pete Ashdown, as well.
Margin of error: plus or minus the truth.
KSL bizarro-news was actually election test results from The AP, garbage numbers the news service sends out to make sure stations will get their results come election night (always with a big warning: "The following are TEST returns.") Note to AP: KSL is getting the results just fine. Might want to make "The following are TEST returns" a little bigger, though.
The story aired at 6:08 this morning and they later corrected themselves on air and pulled down any link from the Web site: "Those results turned out to be incorrect," the anchors said, and the fleeting hope at Olsen headquarters was snuffed out.
-- Thomas Burr/Robert Gehrke
Oh, and Bill Clinton is Utahns' favorite ex-president.
OK, we made that last one up, but KSL did report on a "pre-election Associated Press poll," showing Democrat Christian Burridge beating Rep. Chris Cannon 45-40 percent, Demo Steve Olsen ousting Rep. Rob Bishop 45-40 percent and Matheson losing to Christensen 45-40 percent. Sen. Orrin Hatch beat Dem Pete Ashdown, as well.
Margin of error: plus or minus the truth.
KSL bizarro-news was actually election test results from The AP, garbage numbers the news service sends out to make sure stations will get their results come election night (always with a big warning: "The following are TEST returns.") Note to AP: KSL is getting the results just fine. Might want to make "The following are TEST returns" a little bigger, though.
The story aired at 6:08 this morning and they later corrected themselves on air and pulled down any link from the Web site: "Those results turned out to be incorrect," the anchors said, and the fleeting hope at Olsen headquarters was snuffed out.
-- Thomas Burr/Robert Gehrke
11:12 AM
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3 Comments:
democrat surge my a--.
You guys are just acting as dem. agents trying to dupe a few indiots into voting the wrong way. You should be ashamed.
One wonders what it would take to give these "journalists" pause. "Overwhelming support for gay marriage in Eagle Forum"? "Dems say Rumsfeld best man for the job"? I mean, did no one stop to say, 'Gee, this doesn't really make sense?'
I also remember seeing Chris Cannon at the grassy nole in Dallas, TX on 11/22/63. Or was it Elvis, I can not remember.
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