After my item about William Kristol’s incorrect assertion was picked up by politico.com, salon.com & MSNBC, among other media outlets, the NY Times printed a unusual correction today (Wednesday, May 21, 2008)
In his column on Monday, Bill Kristol said he could not find a recent primary in which the candidate who would go on to win the nomination lost by as big a margin as Barack Obama lost by (41 points) in West Virginia. Mitt Romney won the essentially uncontested Utah primary on Feb. 5 with about 90 percent of the vote.
I say the correction is unusual because of the editorial comment that the Utah Primary was essentially uncontested.
Perhaps the Times is using the same research that Kristol did because, once again in less than 10 minutes, I was able to find out that McCain was endorsed in the Primary by Utah’s Republican Governor Jon Huntsman and that McCain campaigned in the state before the Primary, calling it a battleground.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660200269,00.html
McCain called Utah "a battleground state among Republicans" but said he didn't like so many early primaries. Huntsman was scheduled to appear with McCain Friday evening at a major fund-raiser in the Phoenix Convention Center that costs as much as $2,300 a person to attend. McCain arrived in Utah Thursday morning and spent time with Huntsman before attending a fund-raiser at a private Federal Heights home where he raised more than $150,000.