If you think you might have some money left over in your Christmas gift budget this year, would you please consider making an early Christmas gift to the Associated Press? They are badly in need of some dictionaries.

It is currently the consensus of their headline writers and editors that the word attuned means “holding strong opinions”. (Perhaps some dictionaries will attune them to the real meaning of words, which would be a step up from just having strong opinions about them.)

This was the headline: “AP-GfK Poll: Most attuned voters tilt toward GOP“.

And this is what it’s attached to:

Americans with the strongest opinions about the country’s most divisive issues are largely unhappy with how President Barack Obama is handling them, an ominous sign for Democrats hoping to retain control of Congress in the fall elections.
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In another danger sign for Democrats, most Americans extremely concerned about 10 of the issues say they will vote for the Republican candidate in their local House race. Only those highly interested in the environment lean toward the Democrats.

What is hilarious is that the people whom the headline describes as “most attuned” are described in the story as “highly opinionated”.