When did AP begin running commentary as news?

[ProSense]

Bad news Democrats — 2012 could be worse than 2010

By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Charles Babington, Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Last week's election was bad for Democrats. The next one could be worse.

Senate Democrats running in 2012 will be trying to hold their jobs in states where Republicans just scored major congressional and gubernatorial victories — Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Mexico and Virginia.

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Democrats will try to win back some of the 60 House seats they lost to Republicans last week, but several factors will work against them. Republicans won gubernatorial and state legislative races in dozens of states. That will give them total or substantial control of the often partisan redrawing of House districts that will occur next year, following the latest U.S. Census. It's likely to result in several new GOP-leaning districts in states such as Texas at the expense of Democratic-leaning districts in the Rust Belt.

Democrats may find it especially hard to win back Southern seats lost last week by white Democrats, who are becoming almost extinct in much of the former Confederacy. And if Speaker Nancy Pelosi remains her party's House leader, Republicans will tell voters that Democrats did not learn their lesson from the 2010 election and need more convincing.

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What am I missing? If Pelosi is such good news for Republicans why are they and their media shills obsessing over this?

[WCGreen]

1. It true...

The redistricting is a political event and the GOP controls most of the seats at that table...

[bemildred]

2. Well, it's been going on for quite a while now.

Some of the most amazing babble. I guess that's why Orwell called it "Newspeak".

[jaxx]

3. A good month before the election the AP went right wing.

It's what they publish now. And then yahoo and others pick them up and spread the propaganda.

[ampad]

5. I keep harping on this

Because I have a yahoo email account. AP started this crap months before the election. I would say months before the oil spill. I log into my yahoo account daily and it is nothing but doomsday for the president and the dems. They are so transparent and truly pathetic.

[emulatorloo]

4. They started editorializing in their stories under Ron Fournier

When he was political bureau chief.

He applied to work on the McCain campaign, but went with AP instead. Sent Karl Rove a gushy letter.

Remember that AP story in 08 that white people were lying to pollsters when they said they would vote for Obama? That was classic Fournier.

He's left the AP, but his policy of editorializing in news stories lives on.

[FrenchieCat]

6. Yep. You remember it correctly.....

and the media propaganda just got dangerous again.......see Republican controlled house. Propaganda made that happen.

[SidDithers]

7. K&R...nt

Sid