Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Thomas Shapley has performed a Laphamization and published a column based on events that have not yet transpired. In his column pre-written for this Sunday's paper and posted this afternoon, Shapley reports that:
As of Friday's tallies, voters had substantially expanded the Democrats' Senate majority, and further padded the party's majority in the House.Uh, Friday's tallies hadn't been reported at the time that the article appeared. At least not in the counties of Clark, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish or Spokane, whose legislative races Shapley mentions in his column. (some of these counties don't even report numbers at all today, because of the holiday).
Shapley will probably turn out to be mostly, if not entirely, correct about the outcomes of the specific races he mentions, but his article is definitely not based on "Friday's tallies".
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 10, 2006 05:23 PM | Email ThisIIRC, Jim McCune in the 2nd was down on election night; he's now up by more than 3,000 votes.
Posted by: Joe Waldron on November 10, 2006 06:38 PM