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Oh CNN.com and your misleading headlines.

Sun Feb 10, 2008 at 09:08:57 AM PDT

Journalism at its finest.  I hit the CNN.com homepage and came across a link to this story about yesterday's races.  The link text was also the headline:  McCain leads handily, Dems deadlocked after contests.

Now, if you were just skimming the headlines, how would YOU think the contests turned out yesterday?

Of course, the REAL pictures is a lot different:

Sen. Barack Obama swept Saturday's Democratic contests, giving him considerable momentum heading into Sunday's Maine caucuses and three primaries Tuesday.

John McCain, however, was handed a starkly different message from the GOP, as voters in Louisiana and Kansas indicated they weren't ready to support the Arizona senator. Washington, however, backed the Republican front-runner over former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, according to state party officials.

So, Obama and Huckabee won EVERY state yesterday, putting Obama ahead in "vote-getting" delegates... and the thing the editors took away from that was "Dems are deadlocked", "McCain in the lead"?  Really?

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