In WSJ election editorial, the GOP's loss in N.Y.-23 does not exist

Talk about inventing your own parallel universe. Journal editorial writers were so anxious to toast Tuesday's night results and present them as sweeping Republican successes, that they completely forgot to mention (even once) that, oh yeah, an upstate N.Y. district that had been red for 150 years switched to Democratic last night. For some reason that just completely slipped the minds of the Journal editors.

It's weird, because just last week the Journal's James Taranto announced that in the upstate race, the conservative Doug Hoffman stood "a very good chance" of pulling "off a victory." Yet in its day-after editorial about the campaigns, the Journal didn't even acknowledge there was a N.Y.-23 contest, let alone announce the winner.

I realize that because the Congressional race was close, the winner may have been announced after the Journal's deadline. But again, it's strange that the piece made no mention whatsoever that the previously hyped N.Y.-23 race took place. And of course, this is the age of the Internet, and if Journal editors wanted to update their piece and address the Hoffman loss, they could do so online.

My hunch is they don't have much to say about Hoffman today.