PORTSMOUTH HERALD (NH) endorses Barack Obama

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President Obama has earned our trust, support

October 28, 2012

In his first four years in office, President Barack Obama has pulled the country back from financial collapse, improved health care, championed civil rights for women, immigrants and same-sex couples, cut taxes, ended the war in Iraq and kept us on track to leave Afghanistan by 2014.

He approved the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

He has kept America safe during his first four years in office.

For these reasons, and many more that we will enumerate below, we urge our readers to vote for President Obama on Nov. 6.

When you cut through the Republicans' untruths, half-truths and downright lies, it becomes clear that President Obama has helped the American people in his first term despite an opposition party whose stated purpose was his destruction. Despite the Republicans' best efforts to tarnish him, the president remains well liked by the majority of Americans, while Congress has never been more reviled. Most Americans know in their guts that the president is on the side of working men and women. While the past four years have turned his hair gray, the president has kept his cool, has refused to be provoked and still truly believes America works best when we are united in a common cause.

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More:

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20121028-OPINION-210280320

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1. Des Moines Register editors know this to be true:

When you cut through the Republicans' untruths, half-truths and downright lies, it becomes clear that President Obama has helped the American people. When corporations impose their will on newspaper editorial writers, we get pathetic endorsements that don't ring true. The Register failed to cut through the untruths, half-truths and downright lies and thus failed to help their readers in this crucial election.

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2. Impact of Des Moines Register endorsement to be miniscule... follow me

Do math with Venn Diagram

-No of people in IOWA who subscribe to DMR
-No of people who read the news paper after buying it
-No of people who read the editorial section
-No of people who are independent and undecided (very small) who read the editorial section
-No of undecided who will be influenced after reading the DMR editorial (negligible)


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