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One more week... we hope: Newspaper endorsements, 'non-citizen' nonsense and some races to watch
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One more week... we hope: Newspaper endorsements, 'non-citizen' nonsense and some races to watch

with Dave Busiek, Laura Belin, Art Cullen, Dennis Goldford, Barry Piatt, Ty Rushing, Zachary Oren Smith and Ed Tibbetts

To endorse or not to endorse… would be the question. But two weeks out from an election, and the answer seems pretty crystal. The The Washington Post has stepped in it. The loss of 250,000 subscribers is nothing to sneeze, even for the masthead’s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

On this episode of Iowa Down Ballot, moderator Dave Busiek talks with a panel of Iowa political journalists and analysts about the economic—not just the ideological—value can compel a paper to endorse in a big race. We also hit some a secret list of registered voters that the Secretary of State is telling poll workers to challenge on Election Day. And we hear from the whole panel about state legislative races their watching.

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