AP Retitles and Rewrites Article for Dems

A pretty amazing, but not surprising, blog post over at RealClearPolitics. On Saturday, RCP posted a link to an AP article under the title "GOP Gains Ground in Battle for Congress". A longtime (and very respectful and polite) liberal reader wrote in wondering why RCP had retitled the article in favor of the GOP - since the title of the article that he went to was "Poll Show that GOP Not Making Its Case". Tom Bevan of RCP was certain that he had copied the correct title, so he went to the article and, sure enough, its title was the second one noticed by his reader. But he did find one site, CBS News, that still had the original title to the article that he had linked to:

"So, sometime between roughly 6:30 am and 10:26 am the Associated Press switched the header on the story about its own poll results from being pro-GOP to something decidedly more negative."

Not only that, but the article by Liz Sidoti on September 15th was rewritten to give it an anti-GOP slant. I guess the first header and article was too positive to the GOP for the AP to run during an election year!