This morning I heard him say, during the six o'clock news hour, that Republicans would go from their "current two" to four or five seats.  This surprised me so much that I listened to the seven o'clock news to see if he would repeat the mistake.

He did.

What makes this mistake especially strange is that Q13's own in-depth story gets the numbers right; Republicans currently control four of the nine Washington seats.  The state is gaining a seat, and so all the district lines are being redrawn.   Republicans have a chance to pick a seat in the redrawn 1st district, which is, not coincidentally, the only district without an incumbent running for re-election.

Blakely is new to this area, and is substituting as a host, so you might want to cut him some slack.  But, you really have to wonder why no one else at the station caught the mistake, and told him about it after he first made it.

Q13 should correct this mistake — and should put up the correction on their web page.

Cross posted at Jim Miller on Politics.

(Washington state uses a bipartisan commission to draw district lines.)