Rochester (NY) City News Endorses President Obama

[WI_DEM]

...An assessment of the presidential candidates, then, must take place with the reality and the severity of those problems as the backdrop. The ideology of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, their view of government's role, and their statements about related challenges tell us something about how they view those problems, and whether, and how, they might deal with them.
For those reasons, and for many others, the United States will be in better hands over the next four years with Barack Obama than with Mitt Romney.

It is important, by the way, that New Yorkers vote in large numbers on Election Day. The myth is that the votes in this heavily Blue state don't matter. For the Electoral College, New York is a winner-take-all state. Unless his supporters stay home in dramatic numbers, all 29 of our Electoral College votes will go to President Obama.

But the popular vote total is also important. If Obama wins a majority in the Electoral College but loses the popular vote, he will face continued trouble getting cooperation from Republicans in his second term. That's also an important reason for liberals who are disappointed in Obama to not express that disappointment by voting for one of the third-party candidates.
Republicans, and some disenchanted Democrats, have tried to portray Obama as an ineffective leader with slim accomplishments. That is simply not the case...

Barack Obama was the superior choice in 2008. And he is the superior choice in 2012.

http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/endorsement-for-a-just-future-barack-obama/Content?oid=2151609

[writes3000]

1. My home town! Good to read!

[pipoman]

2. I always find it odd

that so many local newspapers still feel it is good business to endorse political candidates. I don't know about Rochester's newspaper, but most local papers are struggling or dying. Why would a struggling business/industry choose to alienate any portion of their customer base with something so unnecessary? How about sticking to the business of reporting news? Don't get me wrong, I agree with the position of Rochester's paper, just think it is a bad business decision to publicize and make an issue of it.

Here in these parts it is about 50/50 for dem vs. rethug newspaper endorsements. I quit subscribing to our local rag several years ago because I don't need to read their hard right slant on the news. Further, I haven't spent any portion of my advertising budget with these silly, self-important a-holes for several years.

Business, to me, is about being inclusive of as many potential customers as possible. This is accomplished by staying neutral and keeping my religion and politics to myself and my family/close friends. I believe that the failure of the newspaper business is imminent, but is also accelerated through alienation of reader base through political divisiveness. Just my humble opinion..

[pangaia]

3. Rochester's CITY NEWSPAPER is a very liberal publication..

I suspect that republicans who read it do so for info on eating, dining, shopping, music, etc.. not it's editorial content.. just my guess.. SO I don't think in this case it is an issue..

[pipoman]

4. That's my point..

How is it good business to be known as "a very liberal publication" when trying to serve a community which has a reasonably large portion of population which will not support their business because of their insistence on writing in a politically divisive way? It may have worked in years gone by when everyone subscribed to a local paper for their news, nowadays however, most paper's circulation is dwindling and advertisers like myself have many other options for reaching potential customers without appearing to support any political position.

[pangaia]

5. Good point..

But in this case I would say that CITY NEWSPAPER is doing fine. I would not describe their editorials as 'politically divisive." They are expressing an opinion, like every other newspaper. Why is expressing an opinion divisive? And they do publish quite a few opposing viewpoints on any number of issues, every week. The paper is also free and supported by advertising, of which they seem to get quite a bit.
I take it you live in the Rochester area also.

[pipoman]

6. No, I don't live there, I am speaking in general..

just never have understood why newspapers choose to open themselves up to accusations of bias by publishing their political rants..it isn't good business in most retail industries to do that..

[Agschmid]

7. I agree with you on this.

It certainly has a liberal bias but also has the audience to support that. Used to live in VT and the City newspaper here reminds me of the SevenDays paper in VT.