“The Salt Lake Tribune, paper of record in the heart of Mormon territory, has endorsed President Barack Obama,” as Politico reports.
“The Salt Lake Trib endorsed Obama in 2008 as well, but given Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith, as well as his role in the 2002 Winter Olympics, there was a reasonable expectation that the editorial board might lean the other way.
“The board notes these allegiances — “[Romney's] head for business and the bottom line all inspire admiration and hope in our largely Mormon, Republican, business-friendly state” — and they celebrate his “singular role in rescuing Utah’s organization of the 2002 Olympics from a cesspool of scandal.”
But:
[This] is not the only Romney, as his campaign for the White House has made abundantly clear, first in his servile courtship of the tea party in order to win the nomination, and now as the party’s shape-shifting nominee. From his embrace of the party’s radical right-wing, to subsequent portrayals of himself as a moderate champion of the middle class, Romney has raised the most frequently asked question of the campaign: “Who is this guy, really, and what in the world does he truly believe?”
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The Salt Lake Tribune has always been liberal since it was bought by out of state anti-Mormons in 1873. Check Wikipedia’s page on them. They nearly always endorse Democrats. That the left is trying to jump on this as propaganda is laughable.
I did “Kris.” It also pointed out that since 1901 the newspaper has “made strides to eliminate the paper’s anti-Mormon overtones, and succeeded in maintaining good relationships with the mostly-LDS state legislature.” A hedge fund now controls the newspaper. You’d think a hedge fund would go for Mitt! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salt_Lake_Tribune
This isn’t propaganda Mr. Gates. Just facts. Like the other endorsements the president received from the Denver Post and the Tampa Bay Times. You remember Tampa. That’s where they held that convention in August. And yes, the Salt Lake Tribune is the less conservative paper but we’re still talking Utah here and which begs the question why all those that know Romney “best” like him the least? There’s Michigan, Massachusetts, California, Salt Lake, New Hampshire (he has homes in these places) and either don’t like “the real Mitt” or don’t believe there is “a real Mitt” or there just plain is too many Mitts
Great point Kate.
Well, well, well! Salt Lake Tribune in the Mormon capital endorsing Obama! I’ve heard the Lord works in mysterious ways.
Does anyone see me making nasty here?