# Salt Lake Tribune endorses... **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 20, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292 "2012-10-20T00:08:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/1 "2012-10-20T00:08:28Z")
…_ **President Obama** _. [Holy smackers](http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/55019844-82/romney-obama-state-president.html.csp) ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/2 "2012-10-20T00:10:59Z")
Oh snap, Omaba?! ---
**Author:** ![Andiethewestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andiethewestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andiethewestie)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/3 "2012-10-20T00:15:51Z")
There is a God. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/4 "2012-10-20T00:17:18Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Oh snap, Omaba?! He’s Obama’s brother from another mother. Seriously, does this paper have a history of endorsing Democrats? Are they like the radical crazy leftist paper of Utah? What’s their normal stance on things? The editorial read like a pretty reasonable piece of journalism… ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/5 "2012-10-20T00:18:20Z")
Sweet Mormon Jesus, I could have sworn I typed that properly. I’ve reported the post asking for it to be corrected. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/6 "2012-10-20T00:18:24Z")
I wonder what the papers in Mitt’s second and third home states will say. Where exactly does he techically live anyway right now? MA? NH? CA? ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/7 "2012-10-20T00:19:03Z")
read it and was impressed - shared on FB! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/8 "2012-10-20T00:19:59Z")
Not Omaba!!! ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/9 "2012-10-20T00:22:58Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > He’s Obama’s brother from another mother. > > Seriously, does this paper have a history of endorsing Democrats? Are they like the radical crazy leftist paper of Utah? What’s their normal stance on things? > > The editorial read like a pretty reasonable piece of journalism… Of the two daily papers, it is definitely the more liberal. They endorsed Obama in 2008. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/10 "2012-10-20T00:23:39Z")
Historically the “Deseret News” was the more LDS friendly paper but calling the Tribune “liberal” would be a stretch (full disclosure I have not lived in the land of Zion for 18 years). ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/11 "2012-10-20T00:23:49Z")
Despite the state in which it resides, Salt Lake City is pretty liberal. I’m not all that surprised they didn’t endorse Mitt W. Romney. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/12 "2012-10-20T00:27:41Z")
SLC is better if your are a Gentile however look at the tribunes history on endorsements. Dewey, Eisenhower, Nixon, Goldwater, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush/41, Bush/43, McCain, Obama ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/13 "2012-10-20T00:30:50Z")
There are only two daily Salt Lake papers: the Deseret Morning News and the Salt Lake Tribune. The Deseret News is wholly owned by the Mormon church and even includes a weekly section that functions as the Church’s official mouthpiece. The Salt Lake Tribune is the paper for non-Mormons and liberal Mormons (and I believe it started life as an explicity anti-Mormon paper). So this isn’t all that shocking. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/14 "2012-10-20T00:33:34Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > SLC is better if your are a Gentile however look at the tribunes history on endorsements. > > Dewey, Eisenhower, Nixon, Goldwater, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush/41, Bush/43, McCain, Obama Hmm, I did not realize that. Color me very surprised, then, that they didn’t go with Romney. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/15 "2012-10-20T00:35:31Z")
This could be just what Obama needs to get his vote-share over 30% in Utah! ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/16 "2012-10-20T00:37:26Z")
n/m Simplico got there first… ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/17 "2012-10-20T00:43:39Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > SLC is better if your are a Gentile however look at the tribunes history on endorsements. > > Dewey, Eisenhower, Nixon, Goldwater, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush/41, Bush/43, McCain, Obama Is this then the FIRST TIME they have endorsed a Democrat for president? Did they endorse Dole in '96? ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/18 "2012-10-20T00:46:20Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Is this then the FIRST TIME they have endorsed a Democrat for president? Did they endorse Dole in '96? They endorsed Obama in 2008. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/19 "2012-10-20T03:11:32Z")
Mitt Romney to _Salt Lake Tribune_: _Hasa Diga, Sal Tlay Ka Tribi!_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/20 "2012-10-20T03:16:55Z")
Dammit **tom** , you’re no fun. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292.md?page=2)