Unbelievable, even from the LAT

Mickey Kaus and Glenn Reynolds had some amusement on this headline spin in the L.A. Times:

Democrats score congressional victories in California, New York

The GOP fares better in Virginia and New Jersey as both states elect Republican governors.

Okay, the subhead is not bad, but Kaus and IP didn't go quite far enough in looking at the embedded spin in the story. Lead paragraph:

Reporting from San Francisco and Washington - A Democrat won a special congressional election in a heavily Republican district in northern New York by exploiting a battle between moderates and conservatives for control of the GOP.

Thence follow five additional paragraphs on the same race.

Following that comes:

Democrats scored another victory in California, as Lt. Gov. John Garamendi won a special election to a Northern California congressional seat, keeping the district in Democratic hands.

And there follow another two paragraphs on a pretty meaningless, yet already predetermined, Congressional race.

And finally, we get the the tenth paragraph:

Meanwhile, Republicans seized the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, giving the GOP a psychological boost heading into next year's midterm elections.

You just can't make this stuff up.