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11.03.2008 2:40 pm

Post-Dispatch election endorsement round up

For all the details of Post-Dispatch recommendations on candidates and ballot propositions on Election Day, click on the links below:

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11.03.2008 1:18 pm

Post-Dispatch endorsements: FAQs

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Endorsements: a response.

For the last month or so, the Post-Dispatch editorial board has been offering its recommendations on candidates and issues on Tuesday’s ballot. Endorsements always generate a lot of comment and that is the case again this year. Human…

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10.27.2008 9:00 pm

Yes on Home Rule in Jefferson County

A Jefferson County subdivision under construction in 2004. (P-D file photo)

On Nov. 4, Jefferson County voters will be asked to change a form of government that has existed since frontier days. Proponents of the ballot measure say the county has…

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10.22.2008 9:00 pm

The Post-Dispatch recommends in legislative races

On Nov. 4, voters in the St. Louis metro area will choose more than 70 legislators to represent them in in the respective House of Representatives in Missouri and Illinois. The charts linked below list the candidates in contested races…

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10.20.2008 9:01 pm

Tuesday editorial: Terms of endearment

In the latest CBS/New York Times poll, only 12 percent of the American public approved of the way Congress was doing its job.

Nevertheless, come Nov. 4, 95 percent or more of U.S. House incumbents seeking reelection are expected to keep their…

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10.17.2008 9:33 pm

Sunday editorial: Nixon’s the one

This will come as a surprise to Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, but he is not the current state officeholder with whom this editorial page has had the most differences over the years; it is Attorney General Jay Nixon.

The Republican governor has…

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10.10.2008 9:00 pm

Sunday editorial: Barack Obama for president

Post-Dispatch photo by Robert Cohen

Post-Dispatch photo by Robert Cohen

Nine Days before the Feb. 5 presidential primaries in Missouri and Illinois, this editorial page endorsed Barack Obama and John McCain in their respective races.

We did so enthusiastically. We wrote that either Mr. Obama’s message of…

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