Just like in 2004, the Times finds loads of conservatives to label, but very few liberals around.
By
Clay Waters
November 6, 2006 - 2:18pm
In its big Sunday graphic overview of tomorrow's congressional races, the Times profiles 18 House [1]and seven Senate [2]races.
As for the labeling numbers, they display a typically Times-ian lack of balance: Eight uses of the term "conservative," including three describing Democrats, versus zero references to liberals.
That pattern is an echo of the paper's coverage [3]of the 2004 campaign, when the Times state-by-state post-election rundown was crawling with "conservative" labels vs. "liberal" ones by a margin of 20-2.