[HennepinPrisoner]

This huge! (not to mention great news)

I would agree that it is shocking that he got these endorsements, but I'd hardly call it 'great news'.

What makes staffers on a newspaper's editorial board such "experts" on poltics anyway? My local newspaper endorsed Paul Wellstone for Senator in 1990 and 1996...and would have done so this year as well. Enough said!

Personally I find newspaper endorsements arrogant and insulting to their readers' intelligence.

[summer]

Re your post #20 - All I can say to you right now is:

[floriduh voter]

It doesn't hurt to have these newspaper endorsements. Some Floridians are so sick of all the tv spots that they may just rely on what their local paper has to say.

Unfortunately, my local rag is the St. Pete paper but quite a few of their columnists think McBride is a doofus too.

The anti-McBride columnists had no say in his endorsement by the ST P Times but are getting their digs in anyway.