Fox News: Funny Last Minute Article Change

This is funny. I'm sure it will be rewritten.



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This portion is from half-way through the article until the end.

Quote:

In the days leading up to the runoff, Cochran, a career politician who has spent 36 years in office, scrambled for votes. On Sunday, Cochran, 76, and a dozen campaign volunteers greeted hundreds of workers at the Ingalls shipyard on the Gulf Coast. He handed out fliers that said, “Save our Jobs.” At the event, Cochran shook hands with anyone willing to shake his and said, “I hope you have a nice day.” But some say it was too little, too late for the veteran lawmaker to chase down his much younger opponent, who turns 42 this week and has already built a strong conservative base. During Cochran’s shipyard event, The Associated Press reported a man telling the senator, “It’s time for a change, dude. You need to go.” McDaniel campaigned on the idea that Mississippi needed a younger and more conservative candidate in Washington. Cochran was elected to the Senate in 1978 and had been the former chairman in the Senate Appropriations Committee. He had not aggressively campaigned before the June 3 primary, a sign some say highlighted a misplaced sense of comfort and confidence from a career politician. Only seven incumbent senators from either party have lost in primary elections. One was defeated in a state convention; two others happened after incumbents switched parties. There has only been on pure incumbent defeat since 1994, which came when Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., was taken down politically in the 2012 GOP primary by Richard Mourdock, a Tea Party-backed conservative. Mourdock ultimately lost in the general election to then- U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly after Mourdock declared pregnancy as a consequence of rape was “something God intended” in a debate. The defeat of Lugar and Cochran represent what Washington politics used to be – lawmakers who tried to take care of their state even if it meant working with the opposing party. In a recent interview with PBS NewsHour, Lugar, 82, said he thinks the political landscape in America is changing and not necessarily for the better. Lugar said he sees similarities between his loss and Cochran’s. “I think there are many parallels,” he said, noting that “many of the same national groups” who were against him are spending big against Cochran, too; that he was willing to work with Democrats to get things like the Farm Bill passed; and that he was for “continuity.”

Sounds like they're writing up a McDaniel win, right? The headline and the first five or six paragraphs report the Cochran win. I think they were following the TP polls and all the money spent and had a breathless article on the stunning TP victory in Mississippi all ready for release.

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