The Ann Arbor News feels, like I do, neither candidate is worth a shit for the job:
These are both good men at heart. Both, we are sure, are well intentioned.
Yet both have indulged in campaigning that is beneath them. Each has distorted the record and the positions of the other. This campaign - which held the promise of, for once, possibly remaining civil and grounded in issues - has sunk into the mud like the rest of them. All four candidates on the major-party tickets have participated in that, to varying degrees. And all four should be embarrassed.
Our political endorsements aren't really meant to tell people how to vote, but rather to add to the public discussion on important issues. In this race, some will surely see this lack of endorsement as a cop-out or a lack of courage. So be it. For us, it's simply a reflection of reality.
One of these two men will win on Election Day. Whoever he is, here's hoping he proves us wrong.
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The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star decided to make no endorsement but asks a lot of questions:
THE FREE-LANCE STAR makes no endorsement in the contest for the presidency. Both major-party candidates, we believe, have significant strengths, and both weaknesses. Our disinclination to endorse derives from our inability, weighing all factors, to confidently and consensually discern a clearly superior choice. It in no way reflects the idea that this election is unimportant. On the contrary.
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