The United States needs a leader to fight today’s fiscal battle. With more than 23 million Americans unemployed and economic growth limping to reach 1.5 percent, the most pressing challenge is to revive the economy to get people working again. This will take an experienced executive to cut government spending and regulation to unchain the dynamism of the private sector. Mr. Romney has spent his life taking failing companies and revamping operations to make them competitive; he has the skills to do the same in the Oval Office. The Washington Times endorses Republican Mitt Romney for president._____
San Angelo Standard-Times:
Barack Obama set his own standard for his re-election. "If we don't get this done in three years," he said a few weeks into his presidency, "then there's going to be a one-term proposition."_____
He hasn't. The unemployment rate is where it was when he took office. The economic recovery is weak, and more people are in worse circumstances than when he entered the White House.
Nor has Obama offered a compelling vision for how those things will improve in the next four years. Mitt Romney appears better able to reinvigorate the economy, and the Standard-Times editorial board recommends his election as president.
Danville Register & Bee:
We don’t dislike Barack Obama or subscribe to some of the crazier stories about him that have been floating around during the past four years. The president wasn’t born in Kenya, he’s not a Muslim and he doesn’t hate America._____
But Obama has been over his head, and his solutions to our economic problems took longer than they should have, if they didn’t actually slow the recovery. America needs a change of direction and there is no better way to do that than to elect Mitt Romney president.
The Bemidji Pioneer:
Yes, Obama inherited a declining economy, a pair of expensive foreign wars and Republicans in Congress who vowed to obstruct rather than work with him. But his party was in the majority in both the Senate and the House his first two years. And, “Other presidents have succeeded even with the other party controlling Capitol Hill,” as the Orlando Sentinel pointed out in an editorial this month. “Democrat Bill Clinton presided over an economic boom and balanced the budget working with Republicans. Leaders find a way.”_____
Obama hasn’t.
In February 2009, two months into his presidency, Obama gave a televised interview with NBC News in which he famously – or infamously for him – said: “I will be held accountable. If I don’t have this done in three years then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”
On Nov. 6, voters can hold the president accountable.
Nashua Telegraph:
So the basic question facing The Telegraph editorial board when it met last week came down to this: Did the former Illinois senator do enough to live up to those admittedly high expectations to warrant a second term?
After several hours of spirited debate, not unlike conversations taking place in kitchens and living rooms across America, we reached a consensus that he had not. Perhaps more importantly, when we identified the key challenges facing the nation – jobs, the economy and the national debt – we concluded he was not the best candidate to meet them.
That person is former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and we hereby endorse him to become the 45th president of the United States.
The Tyler Telegraph has the same editorial endorsement.
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The Lima News:
Obama swept into office in 2008 promising hope and change. But change has come too slowly, and for too many people, hope surrendered to despair long ago._____
That is why Lima News is calling for a change of leadership and is endorsing Republican Mitt Romney for president.
Sauk Valley Telegraph & Gazette's endorsement is behind a paywall.
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