Hispanics saved the Dems, Politico’s Ben Smith reported on November 3rd. Smith writes:

Reid got an amazing 90% of the state’s 12% Hispanic voters, according to exit polls; Sharron Angle got just 8%.

This is just plain false. There was a poll that showed Hispanics choosing Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) over Angle 90% to 8%. But it was not an exit poll. It was an election eve poll conducted by Latino Decisions and sponsored by the National Council of La Raza, Service Employees International Union and America’s Voice.

There was an actual exit poll conducted by a source much less … Continue Reading

In the course of a July 13th Washington Post column attacking Republicans, Katrina vanden Heuvel writes that “Missouri’s Roy Blunt, among others, stood with the insurance and drug companies against health-care reform.” Come again? The pharmaceutical industry favored the Democrats’ health-care legislation, and is even now coming to the aid of Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) to thank him for his role in passing it. The insurers spent more than a year urging passage of an individual mandate coupled with insurance regulations. That wasn’t the Republican position in the debate.

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