Really, AP?

[blogslut]

This is the headline/angle http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-government/despite-weak-economy-voters-refuse-to-throw-out-incumbent-parties-ohio-turns-back-union-law/2011/11/09/gIQAjSAJ4M_story.html">you chose to go with?

Despite weak economy, voters refuse to throw out incumbent parties; Ohio turns back union law

By Associated Press,

For all the frustration surrounding the economy, voters refused to throw incumbent parties out of governors’ and most big-city mayors’ offices, and they turned back an Ohio law that aimed to ease grinding budget problems by restricting the union rights of public employees.

In the heart of the Bible Belt, a Mississippi initiative that would have defined life as beginning at fertilization also went down to defeat, ending a plan to use it to challenge Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established the right to abortion.

Across the nation, voters’ last major judgments of 2011 were sure to be closely analyzed for any clues about the public’s political mood just two months ahead of the first presidential primary and nearly four years into the worst economic slowdown since the Depression.

Kentucky’s Democratic governor easily won another term, and Mississippi voters kept their governor’s office in GOP hands — decisions that suggested many Americans were not ready to abandon the parties in power...

And people wonder why I despise semi-colons.

[myrna minx]

1. That's a headline FOX would appreciate. How they could spin a

decisive night of tea bagging smackdown and Democratic victories into that tepid headline requires a content contortionist. :eyes:

[Downwinder]

2. No mention of Arizona? Must not have fit their model.

[bulloney]

3. Damned librul media!!!

[progressoid]

4. Yup; that's some great reporting.

;