Alas, newspaper endorsements mean less than they did pre-internet, and they probably meant less then than the newspapers thought they did. But still, this is something. Having read the Republic, I would have thought that they’d endorse Hitler (Thanks, Godwin!) before endorsing HRC.
The New Hampshire Union Leader declined to endorse either major-party candidate, instead backing Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson in a pointed affront to Trump.
(((eye roll))) Idiotic ideological protest vote.
I have never read the Republic, but find it fascinating that they reject Jan Brewer’s individual red state immigration law. It was always based on the Dixie-GOP fantasy that the 11 million undocumented suddenly materialized the instant Obama was sworn in as president. I also feel that the Republic is recognizing all the complexitiy of the modern world, including Climate Science, after the decades of Reagan-esque Fairy Tale belief in simplistic solutions and policy…
Absolutely deplorable, unless they also endorsed Rep Kirkpatrick against Sen McCain, and every other Democrat for every other office in the state. Because every Republican supports The Rump, whether they have the political instinct to deny it or not. Their very presence in Washington (or Phoenix for that matter) serves to advance or obstruct legislation, and confirm or reject nominees, as the case may be, in ways that Trump supports and Clinton opposes.
They shouldn’t be allowed to brush this plain fact over, or to have it both ways.
Might also be a survival-driven effort to woo younger readers. I can’t remember the last time I saw someone reading a newspaper who still had his or her factory-issued hair color.
Good. Now, if someone could get John McCain and Jeff Flake to have the courage to admit that they’re voting for Hillary, we’d be a long way toward having Arizona in the sane camp on November 8th.
I guess Reince Priebus is rattling his purse, each time they look like endorsing HRC…
It is a really good endorsement: pro-Clinton and harshly anti-Trump. The Republic is the largest paper in Arizona, 21st largest circulation in US. If anything moves the needle, this does.
Not that you use it that way, but I thought you’d like to know the “echo” symbol ( ((( ))) ) has been deemed, along with Pepe the Frog, to be hate speech by the ADL.
I miss newspapers. And The Sporting News. I grew up reading an English language (The San Juan Star) and a Spanish language local newspaper (El Nuevo Dia). The Star was part of the Scripps Howard chain. Two of its local reporters broke the Puerto Rico equivalent of the Watergate cover-up scandal, It came from a Police sting where one undercover recruited two unwilling co-conspirators,m a 16 year old teenager and a 29 year old failed grad student. He dragged them to a TV-radio tower on a mountain called the Cerro Maravilla to “bomb” it, armed with Kerosene and wooden matches. The two were captured alive but murdered by the Police Swat types on the ground there waiting. The undercover was wounded. This was in the late 70s and the investigation and subsequent televised hearings were in he 80s. Anyway, I miss newspapers and the tabloid Sporting News in our mailbox every week. And my hair is mostly still factory issue color, whats left of it.
My reading of it occurred decades ago. At the time they seemed pretty reactionary.
Me too.
Cripes, I forgot about that. I still see it all the time to represent hugs.
‘Endorses Dem’, that is the really important part. It’s easy to dismiss Trump, he’s a bad joke but to follow through and endorse Hillary, the right’s hated rival, that is huge.
Trump is awful to us but he is embarrassing to the right and he forces them to choose the country over Party or to have their credibility erased by not stopping a guaranteed national/worldwide disaster.
Plus HoBoy dissed their #1 Senator publicly, they have to back him even if he’s too weak and wounded to back himself.
Or, like me, factory issued hair. 
It’s a shame (a tragedy, really) that the GOP leadership can’t show this same kind of principle and concern for the future of our country.
The former secretary of state is polling closely behind the real estate mogul in Arizona, earning 38.4 percent compared to 43.1 percent for Trump according to TPM’s PollTracker Average.
Not to pick a nit, but an approximate 5% point differential is more of a yawning chasm than a closely contested match-up.As my high school English teacher made sure I finally understood, the reason Ahab is a tragic hero is because before his death, he realizes and acknowledges his tragic flaw as the cause of his demise----and the reason that Gatsby is a pathetic hero is that he dies without having a clue.
So-----tragedy? Well, those pathetic creeps haven’t earned the awareness of Ahab—but that is a tragedy for us, sure.
I wouldn’t be too sure about this. Thanks to the internet these endorsements spread far and wide, especially when the endorsement itself is big news. My news feed lit up last night when this was announced. And they go a long way in pushing Republican leaning indies over the line.
I wonder what their support of Brewer’s Papers Please Law was.