Posted on 01/23/2016 4:26:43 PM PST by mandaladon
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Des Moines Register, the largest newspaper in the state that will cast the first votes for U.S. presidential nominees in nine days, gave its coveted endorsement on Saturday to Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Hillary Clinton, it announced on Saturday.
The newspaper's board said it was impressed by Clinton's "knowledge and experience" and that it had picked Rubio because the Florida senator represented the Republican party's "best hope" in the November 2016 presidential race.
While the endorsements from the newspaper have the potential to boost a candidate, they often do not predict success in Iowa's distinctive, time-consuming caucus system of picking nominees, which involves voters meeting in public places to discuss their preferences.
Since beginning the practice in 1988, only three of the nine candidates the newspaper has endorsed have left the state with the most votes.
"It's certainly not a prediction," Amalie Nash, the paper's executive editor, said in an interview before the announcement. "We normally we do talk about viability, but it's certainly not a major factor." View gallery U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton … U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Rochester Opera House campaign …
Nash and the board's five other members had all the leading Democratic and Republican candidates in for interviews except for the current Republican front-runners, Senator Ted Cruz and the businessman Donald Trump, who declined their invitations, the paper said.
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Rubio would be Hillary’s veep, right?
Guess Roobs forget to tell them he gave up and cancelled all his ads.
Hillary’s “knowledge and experience.” At what? Making money, stealing stuff, killing people who get in the way, and betraying her country?
Proof they hate Cruz and Trump. .
If they take trump down, then Cruz is next.
Count on it.
Hardly, considering what the DMR said in an editorial about Trump this past July,
"Trump has proven himself not only unfit to hold office, but unfit to stand on the same stage as his Republican opponents. The best way Donald Trump can serve his country is by... terminating this ill-conceived campaign."
No. No. No. Hillary and Bill are experts at staying out of jail. Considering the crap they have pulled over the years anyone else would be already serving several life sentences concurrently. That is an impressive achievement. It is easy to see why the Register admires them so much.
Iowans ought to march on the neo-Nazi Des Moines Register and give the suckers 24 hours to leave the state.
Relevancy an Des Moines Register are ships that pass in the night. All the old sources of ‘wisdom’ are experiencing a diminishing credence. It’s about time.
So Rube-io really IS an establishment candidate.
Trump is making media redundant.
a new direction for the party, and perhaps the nation, with his message of restoring the American dream
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to illegal aliens and setting the new direction for the nation to achieve third world status
That is exactly true. I’m stunned that the Cruz people here can’t see that reality.
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