WOW. Guess Who Just Endorsed Obama? THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE:

[hue]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/19/1147137/-WOW-Guess-Who-Just-Endorsed-Obama-THE-SALT-LAKE-TRIBUNE-Obama-has-earned-another-term

"Obama has earned another term"
Utah's biggest newspaper just endorsed...Barack Obama for President. WOW. This might be devastating for Mitt Romney.

Titled, "Too Many Mitts", The Salt Lake Tribune begins:

Nowhere has Mitt Romney’s pursuit of the presidency been more warmly welcomed or closely followed than here in Utah. The Republican nominee’s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan governorship of a Democratic state, and his head for business and the bottom line all inspire admiration and hope in our largely Mormon, Republican, business-friendly state.

But it was Romney’s singular role in rescuing Utah’s organization of the 2002 Olympics from a cesspool of scandal, and his oversight of the most successful Winter Games on record, that make him the Beehive State’s favorite adopted son. After all, Romney managed to save the state from ignominy, turning the extravaganza into a showcase for the matchless landscapes, volunteerism and efficiency that told the world what is best and most beautiful about Utah and its people.

In short, this is the Mitt Romney we knew, or thought we knew, as one of us.
This foreboding start, of acknowledging Romney's strengths but saying, "this is the guy we fell in love with back then, who did so much for our state", portends something very damaging to his narrative: Mitt Romney has abandoned his beliefs to win the nation's highest office.

[aquart]

1. Yeah, I got a Hell has frozen tweet from a Mormon I follow.

With the Salt Lake Tribune link.

[brewens]

2. Not all that surprising since Salt Lake isn't that heavily Mormon. At least that's

what I've ben told by several people. I worked a few weeks for the Red Cross down there.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Within the city limits of Salt Lake, 45% Mormon, but the county it is situated in is

Mormon by a large margin. Large. 65% or so Mormon.

[sharkman25]

3. They came out of his back pocket long long enough to say, "We back Romney!" n/t

[mountain grammy]

4. They didn't just endorse Obama

they trashed Rmoney..

[tanyev]

5. The people who know Mitt the best like him the least.

Very telling.

[DavidL]

7. Even Mormons know he's a fake!!!

Yes, I was impressed to read that endorsement, very fair, very balanced, very reasonable. I'm sure it won't make a difference, unfortunately, in Utah, but perhaps it will sway more voters in Nevada, or Colorado, where there ARE more than a few Mormons who could make a difference for Obama in those two states.

Very impressive endorsement, in an area where we didn't expect it. I hope a number of other leading papers in swing states will be as bold as this paper's editorial board was, for instance, Ohio and FL.

[Yooperman]

8. Having lived in Salt Lake from 85 thru 97....

Salt Lake City has one of the lowest percentages of Mormons ...although as a previous poster said... still 50 - 60 %... and although they are owned by the same company.... the Deseret News is considered the more conservative of the two Statewide papers and often had opposing views on politics.

YM

[donheld]

9. The Denver Post did also.