Trying to Pass Their Midterms

摘要

Headless bodies in border-town deserts and accusations of occult affiliations; no, these are not plot points from an upcoming Halloween movie marathon. Strangely-or perhaps not-it is fodder from the midterm elections. And for national news organizations tasked with sifting through the considerable chafe for kernels of clarity, it has become a manifest task.rn"None of us has ever seen an election like this," says David Bohrman, senior VP of programming and Washington bureau chief at CNN. And Bohrman has been covering elections for 30 years.rnIt's not just the cast of characters: Arizona gubernatorial incumbent Jan Brewer, who claimed border protections are so lax that law enforcement finds "beheaded" bodies-col-rnlateral damage ot tne Mexican drug wars; or Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's long-ago talk-show appearance (on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect, of all places) during which she admitted that she dabbled in witchcraft but "never joined a coven."