Daily Kos: Gary Johnson gets endorsement from Republican paper

Daily Kos: Gary Johnson gets endorsement from Republican paper:

Gary Johnson gets endorsement from Republican paper

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The Chattanooga Times Free Press has chosen the Libertarian over Mitt Romney.  It will not flip the state away from the Republican, but it is worth reading their reasoning.
They begin by asserting their principles:

For more than 80 years, the Free Press editorial page has been a voice for free market economic philosophies, personal responsibility and limited, responsible government. Endorsing the presidential candidate who most thoroughly represents those values has been an important function of the Free Press editorial page for nearly as long.

  This is followed by a paragraph in which they explain why this has meant their endorsing Republicans, until

why we all should chill, courtesy of Politico

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Yes, Politico.
Each morning I get an email from Mike Allen featuring what is in his Political Playbook.
Allow me to offer the first paragraph of this morning's:

MORNING MINDMELD : As an antidote to the (perhaps) irrational Republican exuberance that seems to have seized D.C., we pause for the following public-service announcement. To be President, you have to win states, not debates. And Mitt Romney has a problem. Despite a great debate and what The Wall Street Journal's Neil King Jr. on Sunday called a polling "surge," Romney has not put away a single one of the must-have states. President Obama remains the favorite because he only needs to win a couple of the toss-ups. Mitt needs to win most of them. A cold shower for the GOP: Most polling shows Romney trailing in Ohio, Wisconsin, Nevada, New Hampshire and Iowa - by MORE than Obama trails in North Carolina. Glenn Thrush and Jonathan Martin reminded of us of the 2008 primary analogy: Whatever else Hillary Clinton had, Barack Obama had the math. And math, not momentum, gets you the big house, the bulletproof car, the