Newspaper Endorsements: Obama

Obama's alma mater newspaper the Columbia Daily Spectator endorses him:

In the four years since that election, we have had a chance to evaluate Obama’s politics and leadership. As we look around today, the stakes and situation are far different. A large part of this election will be a referendum on the president’s first term: Does the Obama administration’s direction on health care, the economy, and foreign policy still appeal to us, or would Mitt Romney and a Republican administration offer a better alternative? Have Obama’s promises of “hope” and “change” turned out to be empty rhetoric?

While we leave much of that for the reader to decide, in our position as Columbia undergraduates, we endorse Barack Obama for a second term, as his policies show greater promise for the interests of college students, institutions of higher education, and the American university system.

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