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Houston Chronicle Endorses Romney

Mike

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Wonder if flounder is flipping, flopping, and flapping? :lol:
Tidal Wave: The Houston Chronicle Endorses Mitt Romney
Big Journalism - Breitbart | October 21, 2012 | Michael Patrick

On Sunday The HoustonChronicle,which in 2008 broke a 44 year tradition of backing Republicans and endorsed Barack Obama, endorsed Mitt Romneyfor President in 2012:

>>>Like so many others,we were captivated by the Illinois senator's soaring rhetoric and energized by his promise to move American politics beyond partisan gridlock and into an era of hope and change.

It hasn't happened. Four years later,PresidentObama's deeds have failed to match his words,much less his specific vows to cut the national debt by half and bring the nation's unemployment rate to 6 percent. As Texans,it is a particular vexation that this president's attitude toward the interests of our state has occasionally bordered on contempt,particularly in decisions relating to the NASA budget and the energy sector. The hurtful symbol of this attitude of insensitivity to Texans' feelings was the administration's choice to deny Space City's bid to become home to one of the retired space shuttles.

.......In our 2008 endorsement we cautioned the president against demonizing the energy sector-good advice that he has never heeded (see KeystoneXLPipeline). By contrast,Gov.Romney has listed energy atop his five-point plan to rejuvenate the economy.....

The other launch pad ignored by PresidentObama is the literal one-NASA,and specifically the JohnsonSpaceCenter.

It has been an insult to the memory of American heroes like Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride to allow manned spaceflight to languish in the country that put men on the moon. The notion of paying $50 million a seat to Russia for commercial taxi service to the International Space Station is galling.

Obama has failed to articulate a bold vision of his own for the agency. That failure forsakes a legacy of scientific achievement that has showered benefits on the nation. This approach to NASA has abandoned the American imperative of lighting out for the territory and exploring new worlds. NASA's legacy must be reclaimed....
 
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Anonymous

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Utah Newspaper Endorsement Slams Mitt Romney
By ABBY D. PHILLIP
Oct. 19, 2012


In a blow to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Utah's largest newspaper today slammed his candidacy and endorsed President Obama instead.

Despite being credited for saving the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and making Utah his home at one time, the Salt Lake City Tribune said that the state's "favorite adopted son," Romney, has become "the party's shape-shifting nominee."

"In considering which candidate to endorse, the Salt Lake Tribune editorial board had hoped that Romney would exhibit the same talents for organization, pragmatic problem-solving and inspired leadership that he displayed here more than a decade ago," the editorial board wrote. "Instead, we have watched him morph into a friend of the far right, then tack toward the center with breathtaking aplomb."

Though the Tribune chose to stiff Romney with its endorsement, Utah remains a solidly red state, as seen on the ABC News political map, and Romney is expected to win all six of its electoral votes.

In Florida, whose 29 electoral votes may be among the crown jewels of presidential politics, two major newspapers split their endorsements Friday.

The Tampa Bay Times, once again, put its hat in the ring for Obama, saying that "now is not the time to reverse course.

"The recovery has proven more difficult than anyone imagined," the editorial board said. "But conditions would be far worse without the president's steady leadership."

Romney also secured a big vote of confidence from the Orlando Sentinel, the largest newspaper in central Florida, that endorsed Obama in 2008.

"We have little confidence that Obama would be more successful managing the economy and the budget in the next four years," the paper's editorial board wrote. "For that reason, though we endorsed him in 2008, we are recommending Romney in this race."

Obama won Florida by 2.8 percent in 2008.

Obama today landed a major repeat endorsement from the Denver Post, Colorado's largest newspaper.

In 2008, more than 400 newspapers endorsed a presidential candidate, according to Editor & Publisher magazine, which tracked the endorsements. But so far, only a handful of critical swing state papers have made their endorsements known, which creates fierce competition for the favor of the ones that remain undecided.

As Obama and Romney crisscross the country in search of votes, they're hoping to pick up endorsements of a dozen or so influential newspapers that could help boost their fortunes in key swing states.

So far, Obama has collected seven endorsements to Romney's five. Here they are.

Newspapers endorsing Barack Obama
•The Philadelphia Enquirer
•The Seattle Times
•The Sacramento Bee
•The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
•The Salt Lake Tribune
•The Denver Post
•The Cleveland Plain Dealer



Newspapers endorsing Mitt Romney
•The Dallas Morning News
•The Las Vegas Review Journal
•The Orlando Sentinel
•The Omaha World-Herald
•The Tennessean

That has to be an ouch to Romney- when the largest paper in Utah won't endorse a Morman native son :???:
 

ranch hand

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Who owns this paper Ot? How many in utah back Obama? Your just like Obama, can't debate his record so throw **** against the wall and hope it sticks. Well hate to tell you that your shut doesn't stick and your buddies don't think your funny. Heard one might turn you in for drinking and driving.
 

Steve

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Who owns this paper?


it took a while to track it down as it is owned by a company owned by a subsidiary owned by a private equity group run by a guy who ..

JOHN PATON
ceo
Q3-2011
NEW YORK, NY
$2,500 donation to obama for america

JOHN PATON
ceo
Q2-2011
NEW YORK, NY
$2,400 donation to obama for america


In 2012, as it had in 2008[8], The Salt Lake Tribune endorsed Barack Obama for the presidency,

it is hard to find a conservative paper these days,. let alone an independent one... Romney is up by 40 points in UTah.. so this really doesn't matter much except that it will lose them more customers..
 

hypocritexposer

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Oldtimer said:
So far, Obama has collected seven endorsements to Romney's five. Here they are.

Newspapers endorsing Barack Obama
•The Philadelphia Enquirer
•The Seattle Times
•The Sacramento Bee
•The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
•The Salt Lake Tribune
•The Denver Post
•The Cleveland Plain Dealer



Newspapers endorsing Mitt Romney
•The Dallas Morning News
•The Las Vegas Review Journal
•The Orlando Sentinel
•The Omaha World-Herald
•The Tennessean

That has to be an ouch to Romney- when the largest paper in Utah won't endorse a Morman native son :???:



Seems your list was innaccurate, before you even posted it.

Where is the Houston Chronicle listed? :roll:
 

jigs

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with thenewspapers being basically ignored, everyone reading online news these days, what good is an endorsement from a paper??
 
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Anonymous

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jigs said:
with thenewspapers being basically ignored, everyone reading online news these days, what good is an endorsement from a paper??

That is essentially what a lot of the articles I saw said...
 

hopalong

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So why post your crap about the Salt Lake Tribune writes?????Stay focused here oldtimer,

Put down the drink and slowly back away from it!!!You can do it,,,one step at a time,easy now one step is all it takes :D
 

TexasBred

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2012-10-19 13:01:51
 

Mike

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The media has been in the bag with Democrats/Liberals/Socialists since eternity.

We were spoonfed crap even before the days of Walter Kronkite.

Should be refreshing for all Americans to finally have a choice on which side of the news they prefer.

We came within a gnats azz of becoming full blown Socialists during the FDR days and no one knew it for several years. Thanks to the media.
 
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