{"id":13612,"date":"2016-09-15T13:57:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T13:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=13612"},"modified":"2016-09-15T13:58:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T13:58:38","slug":"gary-johnson-nets-third-newspaper-endorsement-this-time-in-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/09\/15\/gary-johnson-nets-third-newspaper-endorsement-this-time-in-new-hampshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Johnson nets third newspaper endorsement \u2014 this time in New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Libertarian presidential ticket, which is on track to narrowly miss the polling threshold for the first televised debate, earned its third robust newspaper endorsement: New Hampshire’s Union Leader.<\/p>\n

“Electing a third party President might be just the ticket to snapping a squabbling Congress out of its partisanship,” wrote the newspaper’s publisher, Joe McQuaid, in an editorial that \u2014 as usual \u2014 will appear on the front page. “Both Republicans and Democrats would be independent of the White House, and freer to debate issues apart from tribal loyalties.\u00a0Restoration of these checks and balances might be the most promising benefit of a\u00a0[Gary]\u00a0Johnson presidency.”<\/p>\n

The Union Leader has endorsed Republicans for president \u2014 and only Republicans \u2014 since it was created in 1913 as a merger between two competing Manchester newspapers. But as McQuaid noted, two other Republican-leaning newspapers have endorsed the Gary Johnson\/Bill Weld ticket after some throat-clearing about the demerits of the major parties. The Richmond Times-Dispatch went first<\/a>, arguing that Johnson deserved a place on the debate stage after acing an editorial board interview.<\/p>\n

“We found him to be knowledgeable but unscripted, reasonable and good-humored, self-assured but free from arrogance, willing and able to address every question, consistent in his beliefs without being dogmatic, even-tempered, curious \u2014 and in all respects optimistically, realistically presidential,” said the paper’s editors.<\/p>\n

Source: Gary Johnson nets third newspaper endorsement \u2014 this time in New Hampshire – The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n