The Des Moines Register is to the left of Pravda. They will dutifully endorse Senator Barack Obama, although Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party is really more representative of their editorial board. Why in the world would Senator John McCain even go to their office on Locust Street in the first place?!
Unfortunately we in Indianapolis inherited their left-wing scumbag former editor, Dennis Ryerson. I was at a party where he showed up. He was pontificating about “right-wingers” in the most incendiary terms. He sounded more like Norman Mailer drunkenly spouting off in a bar in Queens than an editor of a daily newspaper.