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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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I hear a lot of "The country needs to turn around" and then they say Romney is the one to do it. I don't want the country to turn around. We're better off than we were when Obama took office. I think what people are saying when they say things like "we need to turn around" is "this isn't happening fast enough for me" - Which I get - We're a fast-food nation - instant gratification.. heck that's what got us all in the mess in the first place. But now is the time to remain moving in the new direction we're moving in- it's slow and steady and we'll all be better off in the long run. The key is "long" run... not the McConomy that you're addicted to. Stay the course.
The problem is that the U.S. has no "course" under Obama. We have been floundering. There are 6 trillion in private funds waiting to be invested into economic expansion and regeneration. For four years this money has been waiting for the Fed to move so it can know how to gear up. No direction from the President, not even a budget. And yes, that is one of the reasons to have a president, leadership and direction, then congress responds and comes together. This president is continually making it about congress and bush. After 4 years, there should be some return. But nothing. Thank you.
B.S. the Republican Party has created this bi-partisan problem and I refuse to let them live in the White House for doing so! I refuse to vote Republican in any election for the next 8 years and I think those of you that do should be Ashamed of your selves!
I'll never be ashamed for voting out Obama.
Confussed... bugmetoo.... great comments with only your inner feelings. Just more stupid mean spirited ugly nonsense without reason or thought. Simpletons. Ok, don't be ashamed about voting for Obama, be ashamed for his letting four American living breathing people die without even trying to help. Then letting a cover up go on while he headed to a campaign party in Vegas. No need to talk about any other day of his meaningless administration. Unlike you, if I voted for him, I would keep it to myself out of shame and stupidity. Just that one night. Nothing else. Four dead people. Pot of gold on my doorstep signed "with love from Obama" Could not get me to check a box for that person. Four people, over six hours, nothing, video, Vegas.
Obamasucksonit, either you have too much time on your hands or just plain filled with hate. You have not posted one thing that is not hate filled and bigoted. I really feel sorry for you. You are what is wrong with America, HATE. Have a good night sir.
So desperate... the Obama campaign at this point has become nothing more than laughable!!! Its nice to see after all the lying, personal attacks, and empty rhetoric by TEAM Barry, Mitt and Paul have a very good chance of winning. Not by a little but by a lot.....Barry keeps running his "negative" attack ads while Mitt is clearly focused on the future. Thanks everyone, its been tough, but WE are almost there.......
Do we really want four more years of this? Is this the best we can do? Let's vote for CHANGE.
Romney 2012!
No...and people have woken up...they know all the crap from 08 was just that....CRAP!!!!
Ofoolya is a one and done president. Ofoolya is a failed experiment. All Ofoolya has done is to promote the stereotype of the welfare grubbing black race... and has created further prejudice against blacks. Yes, he is the black messiah!
What fun it will be when Romney is elected. The Gallup poll has Romney winning by 5 to 6 points, and they have only picked a presidential election wrong once in over 100 years of polling. The facts don't lie!
I met two black ladies today who are voting for Romney.... and everyone I know who voted for Ofoolya 4 years ago is voting Romney this time... Polls show that 17% of those voted for Obama 4 years ago are not voting for him this time. This is MILLIONS OF VOTES Ofoolya has lost.... me predicts a ROMNEY LANDSLIDE.
If Romney were to win on Nov. 6 (highly unlikely). The leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate should do as his colleague did in 2009 and publicly declare that their number one priority is to make him a one term president.
Hey J. Willard...."highly unlikely"....HA HA HA... you keep tellin yourself that LIB TARD!!!!!
I am a Conservative, If Romney wins this Election and does not live up to his promises I will vote against him in Four years? God I hope it is not Hillary.
I was traveling across the state of Maryland and Delaware today. Both heavily Democratic. I know the Romney campaign has no hope of winning Maryland. But, the signs I saw in favor of Romney over Obama were 10 to 1. And, the bumper stickers for Romney were on cars with Maryland and Delaware tags. I was shocked. I would say, the LIB TARDS better be sweatin bullets.....HA HA HA......YEEEEEHAWWWW. 10 more days!!!
This is true in many places that are supposedly libtard dominated. In Florida for 80 miles around me in every direction there are no more than half a dozen Ofoolya signs, and HUNDREDS of Romney signs everywhere.... I think that it is going to be a Romney landslide. Also there is a poll done recently that shows that 17% of those who voted for Ofoolya 4 years ago are voting against him this time... this is MILLIONS of votes Ofoolya has lost from 4 years ago... If I were a libtard I would be worried.... and with Sandy getting reading to knock out power in 5 libtard states for a couple of weeks.... it is not looking good for Ofoolya on any front.
Hey bucks
You look cute in that tin foil hat Buckie.
Hey thanks Bennie....but that's not me..that's your "messiah"...I thought the dunce cap was appropriate for how he's done his "job" the last 4 years......HA HA HA. You LIB TARDS are such goobers..you don't even recognize you own guy!!!
BARRY/BIDEN/BIG BIRD 2012 "FOWL WE CAN BELIEVE IN"
I wonder why Obama and team haven't blamed Bush lately? Come on guys, your missing you #1 excuse. Hey, maybe start again with the Libya fiasco.
If Obama is voted out, I bet the economy picks up by 50% within 3 months. And I also bet Romney won't say "it was Obama's fault" once. And there, in a nut shell, IS the difference.
Don't hold your breath. The WORST economies have ALL been under REPUBLICAN administrations w/the exception of EISENHOWER.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2012/10/10/want-a-better-economy-history-says-vote-democrat/
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/10/24/the-best-presidents-for-the-economy.aspx?source=ihpsitth0000001
Not so. Look at Reagan. This economy has been stuck in neutral since 2009. Why...UNCERTAINTY. Main Street's small business isn't investing. Take a couple of hours this week and go talk to a small business owner. They are paying down debt and investing on replacement equipment and only sure things. Obama has had 4 years to reduce this. He hasn't passed a budget, increased new regulations by 40% compared to Bush. Employees will cost more due to health care (even us that already had health care benefits.
This is the worst recovery since the end of WWII
Vote for change. Romney 2012!
Obama likes to live high on the peoples dime. how many hundreds of millions of our dollars did he and his family spend on vacations and turning the white house into a night club. partying with the elite of the entertainment scene. if he truly cared about the fiscal shape of this country he wouldn't have acted like hostess with the mostest with our money. he sure had a lot of us fooled last time. this time he won't be getting my vote. time for him to stop having the time of his life while our country is in such trouble. and while I'm at it Bush and Cheney should be on trial for invading Iraq. peace
It is never to late to correct your Mistake?
Romney/Ryan 2012 To Correct a big Mistake!
What's next? Jeremiah Wright endorsing Romney? Don't discount it. Obama has betrayed Wright like he has the entire country.
Obama whole heartily believes in the Words of Rev Wright "Not God Bless America But God Damn America"
Hey, that sounds like what Willard is trying to do to my country!
We need Democratic control of the House, and more Democratic Senate seats to go along with four more years of Obama. FORWARD! HUT!
Demoine Register You indorcedan Out Sourcer a Liar and a Flip Flopper. Poor Gov. of MA. Get Real
Idiots! How can going back to the fiscal policies that put is in the tank get us out of the tank?
Just what fiscal policies put us in the tank?
By not having the democrats in the senate that ran us into the ground with their policies this time.
"Implode the partisan gridlock"?
I guess he's just going to walk in on day one and Democrats are just going to lie down. I guess they must be making the calculation that if he got elected, concern for the deficit would be put back where it usually is during Republican administrations, on the back burner.
The Romney ticket deserves the chance to serve this nation. I'm not rich. I'm not Mormon, but I sincerely believe we need a change. 4 years is long enough to get things moving in the right direction, and by all measure, this current administration does not meet that standard.
Let Romney run again against Jeb and the Jersey Guy in 2016. Are you ready for Hillary and Bill then?
Oh! Yea!
YES! I have faith that my fellow Iowans will see the error that was made
in 2008 and redeem ourselves. Thank God for the intelligent editors of the
Des Moines Register. Vote Romney/Ryan!
An intelligent news source that Des Moines Register! Bet they report on Libya also, unlike NBC.
Ok, I get it, The Editor at the Register drank the Romney Koolaid (The flavor was called, "Sour Grapes" or Grapes of Wrath and Wealth").
By the way was the Editor also wearing the requisite tennis shoes when writing the editorial??
Since the Register has NOT published details of whatever the "plan(s)" is/are and just what kind of generally accepted macro-economics theory it's based on that has been proven to work, that Koolaid must have been pretty damn strong and tasty.
Apparently, Romney tax cuts and military spending AND a lot of 'Miracle, magic budget dust" will create an economy that will be good for dying print newspapers by bringing wealth to its readers and therefore more subscriptions - well, good luck to one and all at the Register.
God save the Regsiter and God save the United States of America- from itself.
From the Register's endorsement: "Romney succeeded as governor in Massachusetts where he faced Democratic majorities in the legislature."
Has the Register not heard about Romney's 800 or so vetoes while he was governor? I'd say that if anybody succeeded during Romney's term it was the Democratic legislature that stepped up again and again to save Massachusetts by overriding nearly all those vetoes.
I can't believe as a Country that we would vote someone like Mitt Romney for President that has many offshore accounts to avoid paying taxing. That is not the kind of man that i want for my Commander and Chief!
Obama 2012
Has Bush landed in the Cayman's yet? Ha! Ha!
Not to mention that he's a WARMONGERING CHICKENHAWK and a COWARD. NOT qualities for a C-I-C of this country ! It's absolutely SHAMEFUL that he hid like a cowardly little pussy over in France while he cheered on the War while others died for their country.
I can't believe that anyone would vote for a liar.We deserve the truth about Benghazi.
So much for staunch Iowan Midwestern values...the paper sold itself out, like a cheap whore. Probably had financial problems like with most print media...either switching to digital or dying the slow death of a diminishing market. Easy meat for a corporate vulture capitalist like Willard.
Well for all you DezMonez execs who suddenly find yourselves flush with Bain GOLD, and looking a fat juicy Christmas bonus...I say, stand up, step up, claim your ill gotten albeit well deserved rewards. Don't hide out, don't PUSS out, step up and own it like a man. Be known for selling out your subscribers, your principles and your ethics.
Step up, and forever be known as part of the problem, and forever forsake any hope of being part or parcel in the solution.
Say again. What did the paper sell-out to? How did the paper benefit?
This is a big deal! Rare indeed. First time since Richard Nixon.
And that in itself doesn't tell you everything you need to know? Believe what you want, VOTE what you want, just don't come whining, pissing and moaning, if this TOOL gets elected and rips you (and every other NON-wealthy American) a new one. These GOP guys AIN'T your friend, and they have absofrickinlutely NO intention whatsoever of doing ANYTHING that benefits anyone but themselves and their plutocrat owners.
You've never LIVED in a country where there IS no representation whatsoever for the common people, but it's coming. Elect Rmoney and it'll be here WAY sooner than you're prepared for.
I wonder what would happen if all the women in America went on strike at work and at home if Romney/Ryan are elected?
Elizabeth:
Do you realize that there is a huge unheard portion of the female vote? They are not angry left wingers, maybe a even a bit traditional. Gasp!
Romney/Ryan 2012
"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fitting in the Lord."
— Colossians 3:18
Note: Perhaps such "happily" submissive women may be found at ChristianMingle.com
It's the great female dilemma of our time:
Half the women are thoughtful, strong, educated, and independent, but many are alone and frustrated.
The other half are dyed-in-the-wool, submissive, don't care about their rights, do what their husbands tell them to do, just want to watch soap operas, and squirt out mouth-breathing kids types. They are alone and frustrated too.
Elizabeth you arte lost and obviously submissive to your Husband The word of God says women should submit to their husbands but the flip side is the Husbands should be following the standrds set buy God as the example to follow. In my house my wife has a voice and an opinion and that is not angry Left wing crap. Stand up and be a woman and fight for women to follow know one wants tro go back to the 1950's and basically Romney and Ryan are telling ALL women we know whats best for you how dare they ?That has NOTHING to do with Left wing Anger it has to do with taking direction from God NOT man !! I pray you get this before election day because you are lost !
Which Would a Mitt Led Bain Capital Do During a Leveraged Buyout?
A) Bain Capital loses money, but company survives.
B) Bain Capital makes money and the company survives.
C) Bain Capitol can make just a bit more money than #2, but the company goes out of business.
The answer is #3, of course. Company survivability is not a "variable" in the Bain spreadsheet. Mitt's a businessman, but not in the Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, or Bill Gates mold. He's a leveraged buyout guy like Gorden Gecko in Wall Street, except Geko's company was not funded initially by wealthy Latin Americans through offshore companies registered in Panama.