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Subscribe to RSSSABINA, OH -- For the first time in four decades, Iowa’s influential newspaper endorsed a Republican candidate for president as The Des Moines Register announced Saturday night its support of Gov. Mitt Romney in the November election.
The Register, in an editorial that will run in Sunday’s paper, asks voters to give Romney "a chance to correct the nation’s fiscal course and to implode the partisan gridlock that has shackled Washington and the rest of America."
In 2008, the Register endorsed Barack Obama. The last Republican to win the support of the paper was Richard Nixon in 1972.
“Barack Obama rocketed to the presidency from relative obscurity with a theme of hope and change. A different reality has marked his presidency. His record on the economy the past four years does not suggest he would lead in the direction the nation must go in the next four years,” the editorial posted on the Register’s website said.
“Voters should give Mitt Romney a chance to correct the nation’s fiscal course and to implode the partisan gridlock that has shackled Washington and the rest of America — with the understanding that he would face the same assessment in four years if he does not succeed,” the editorial piece ended.
The announcement from Iowa’s largest newspaper comes just days after President Obama had an off-the-record then turned on-the-record conversation with the publisher and editor of the Register that prompted an op-ed from the paper about the condition of the interview.
Romney has some ground to make up in the state, which awards six electoral votes, as last week’s NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll of Iowa showed Romney trailing Obama in the state -– 51 percent to 43 percent. Romney narrowly lost the Iowa Caucus back in January to former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.
When voters receive their Sunday paper in the morning, they will not only find the editorial endorsing Romney but also a copy of the “Mittzine”-– a pro-Romney superPAC publication about the GOP nominee and being dropped in five battleground states
Romney travels to Davenport, Iowa, on Monday for a rally. His running mate, Paul Ryan, is also expected to head back to the Hawkeye State within the next nine days leading up to the election.
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Florida, Iowa, Ohio and New Hampshire will go Romney. This guarantees a Romney win.
Our nation will emerge from this 4-year nightmare.
You're a bit math-challenged. Romney would need to virtually run the table on states currently too close to call in order to win. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
Great reward obstruction with no regard for the general public. Disgusting!
Myth Robme and Lyin Ryan .... not a whit's regard for the truth, unfit to serve!
Any middle class citizen, voting for this arithmetic free ticket, is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders!
Remember Sensata!
If you vote Romney/Ryan this is what you will get!!
This is the Republican Party Today!!!
Romney/Ryan funded by the Kock Brothers "Propaganda Machine"
Kock Brothers "PROPAGANDA MACHINE" THE 3%
The Republican Reformist Party!!
Romney/Ryan are the founder and leader of the Republican Reformist Party!! and the most influential voice in the organization, the systematic extermination of the belief in America!! and the destruction of 50% of the American population by all means!!! Including the 47% who have no VOICE in POLITICS!
Remember the 47% this could be YOU!!!
VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 4 FOR 44!!!
God help us with idiots like you out there voting.
Obama cares about saving Big Bird, while Romney cares about saving the American Eagle!
Great bumper sticker...now have a look at what intelligent, responsible moderates think of the race;
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50133837n
Romney is on a roll. Only because Obama doesn't have anything to say, other than negatives about Romney.
Only 7 days to "D" day...(Defeat Obama Day). Rock and Roll!
Nonsense. "Mittmentum is a charade, an imaginary spectacle designed to sway the Conventional Wisdom. As usual Beltway CW is wrong;
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100186641/nate-silver-the-geeky-statistician-who-is-singlehandedly-dismantling-the-myth-of-mitt-mentum/
So you have to go to the UK to find a paper saying Obama is doing good?
Reading comprehension isn't your thing is it?
You would think that with all the Iowa jobs sent to other countries that they would have had their fill of the GOP. I always thought that the media in Iowan are a little slow but this just cements the idea for me.
The Register editorial page has become increasingly Conservative over the past couple of years. Liberal opinions now make up maybe 1/4 of the total and those are all local writers, nothing syndicated. I remember when it was an independent, a very good paper indeed. Over time Gannett has destroyed it as has been the case with all their properties.