Other than that, the story was completely accurate.

From the Associated Press:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada appeared briefly for the cameras with six Democrats who defeated Republican incumbents on Election Day: Mark Warner of Virginia, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mark Udall of Colorado, his cousin Tom of New Mexico, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Jeff Merkley of Oregon.

Lessee now: the incumbent Mark Warner defeated was…oh. He didn’t defeat an incumbent. John Warner didn’t run again, and Mark Warner won the open seat.

The incumbent defeated by Mark Udall was Wayne Allard, who got absolutely slaughtered–he didn’t get one single vote! Oh, wait–he didn’t run for re-election, either. So that was an open seat also.

And the incumbent defeated by Tom Udall was Pete Domenici–also absolutely slaughtered, also not getting a single…. Ah. Also didn’t run again.

But the other three–AP got those right. That’s a .500 batting average for the AP today–ahead of the norm!

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