NBC's Today, New York Times repeated GOP claim that arrests benefit Republicans in elections, when polling shows .......

......Democrats have erased GOP advantage on the issue


NBC's Today and The New York Times reported the GOP assertion that the UK arrests of several suspected terrorists would play to the Republicans' advantage in the midterm elections because the issue of terrorism is a weakness for Democrats, without noting recent polling that shows an erasure in the advantage President Bush and congressional Republicans once held on the issue. Read more