# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/21 "2012-10-20T05:17:55Z")
[Another unexpected endorsement.](http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-onion-endorses-john-edwards-for-president,29989/) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/22 "2012-10-20T07:55:25Z")
I like the closing paragraph from the Salt Lake Tribune: > [@](#): > > Therefore, our endorsement must go to the incumbent, a competent leader who, against tough odds, has guided the country through catastrophe and set a course that, while rocky, is pointing toward a brighter day. The president has earned a second term. Romney, in whatever guise, does not deserve a first. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/23 "2012-10-20T16:20:29Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > Of the two daily papers, it is definitely the more liberal. They endorsed Obama in 2008. Exactly. I live in the Salt Lake Valley, and at no point in the last four years have I expected the Trib to endorse anyone _but_ Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/24 "2012-10-20T16:55:11Z")
It just goes to show – you may start off not liking Mitt when you don’t know him, but as you _do_ get to know him you’ll find that you _can’t stand_ him. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![yorick73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5a626/32.png) [@yorick73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yorick73)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/25 "2012-10-20T17:54:48Z")
A more important [unexpected endorsement](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-endorsement-president-mitt-romney-101912-20121018,0,6927962.story) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/26 "2012-10-20T23:40:47Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > 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). It’d be kind of odd for _Deseret News_ to be other than LDS-friendly seeing as the newspaper is [owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints](http://www.deseretnews.com/aboutus/). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/27 "2012-10-21T00:15:06Z")
> [@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 They endorsed both McCain and Obama? ---
**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 21, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/28 "2012-10-21T01:08:54Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > They endorsed both McCain and Obama? They never endorsed McCain. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/29 "2012-10-21T02:30:10Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > They never endorsed McCain. Really? I was seriously thinking the endorsed both Obama and McCain. 😉 ---
**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 21, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/30 "2012-10-21T02:34:47Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Really? I was seriously thinking the endorsed both Obama and McCain. 😉 No that was Romney. ---
**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 21, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292/31 "2012-10-21T02:45:11Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Really? I was seriously thinking the endorsed both Obama and McCain. 😉 That’s entirely possible - they could have endorsed McCain in 08 and Obama in 12, like the Orlando paper did. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salt-lake-tribune-endorses/638292.md?page=1)