The Houston Chronicle endorses Mitt Romney

Clint Eastwood's Daughter Francesca Is Not Voting For Mitt Romney

"I happen to be voting for a different man," "But I love that he stands up for what he believes in."

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Yes: your mind.

Copy, paste, bold, copy, paste, bold. Repeat expected garbage cycle.

Voting day is going to be rough for your camp.

 

So this means they backed Bob Dole in 1996.... Wow.

 

I agree on both points.

I direct plays that are reviewed by the Chronicle and when one comes out online I know about it right away, and from all kinds of people and sources.

But once in a while the review runs in print but doesn't post online, as the result of an error, for days after it runs in the paper. In those cases I don't even find out a review came out until an older friend calls (never email, always phone) to congratulate me. And the cast is all like, when is the review going to come out when it's been out maybe 24 hours.

The friends that notify me of the reviews are invariably 65+ years old as only elderly people read the paper edition of the daily paper anymore. And older people, especially in Texas, vote Republican.

This is great news for Romney.

He might get an extra thousand or million or hundred votes to run up his popular vote (doesn't matter) in Texas (really doesn't matter).

 

Also, a Republican being endorsed for president by the Houston Chronicle isn't super interesting. Get him an endorsement in a major paper in Austin and I'll look at it. Get him one in one of his home states of Massachusetts where they know him best and I'll get worried.

A Democrat getting endorsed by the Salt Lake City Tribune though, now that's a story. For the following reasons at least:

- It's the largest paper in Utah
- Utah is a deep, dark RED state
- Utah is one of Romney's three home states
- Utah is the state with the largest Mormon population in the union

They endorsed Obama on the grounds that nobody knows which Romney would occupy the White House as he's taken virtually every position on virtually every issue.

That endorsement won't matter anymore than the Houston Chronicle one will but at least it's interesting.

 

Have you ever read the comments section on the Chronicle website? They know who their base is.

 

Yes, I'm terribly upset that the newspaper that's coming to take my picture for about the 100th time tomorrow night and that indirectly puts food on my table endorsed a Republican. In fact when I heard about it I bumped my head really hard on the floor because I couldn't get to my fainting couch in time.

 

I said something about this somewhere here, either in reaction to another post about it, or because I caught the news myself online. I thought the Utah rag's endorsement was huge news. Stunning, really. I'm surprised more hasn't been made of it. I'd be running ads about it in swing states, were I running the President's campaign. Who knows, being in Texas, I'd never know if they were. Anyway, great point, Batman.

 

It's the chronicle who cares .

 

Liberal media...

 

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Imagine the effect a Presidential endorsement can have on ad revenues in Houston Texas.

When money is free speech, democracy loses.

 

So according to the LA times Romney endorsed Obama, so if the chronicle endorses Romney, then the chronicle endorsed Obama? Does this mean we are not getting Dwight Howard?

 

Because it costs two trillion dollars we do not have to lay millions of new captive consumers at the feet if big insurance. I can't imagine why we wouldn't think that was a solid plan.

 

This is the best post I have read all night. Call me crazy, but I do love some well timed sarcasm.

 

Yep, and we got magnificent health care reform out of it.

 

The Chronicle has changed to a more moderate viewpoint from when I first moved here in 1978. This endorsement is disappointing. I'm not sure if they have had some sort of change at the top or perhpas hope that taking this position will help them somehow as they try to survive the newspaper crisis.

 

I think this is the motivation. I doubt the folks at the top have suddently got so dumb.