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This is why local news is incredibly important, their job is to decipher this for you. For national things like Presidential elections, I couldn't care less who
by Analemma_ 7y ago
This is why local news is incredibly important, their job is to decipher this for you. For national things like Presidential elections, I couldn't care less who my local newspaper endorses, but for local elections I care quite a lot. If you're in the Seattle area, try to support the Seattle Times or the Stranger; they have different political leanings and you may like one and hate the other, but they both do good work in researching candidates and ballot issues before coming up with endorsements.
- egypturnash 7y agoWhen I lived in Seattle my voting process was basically "find the Stranger's recommendations, read through them, and very occasionally look deeper into one issue or office". This is definitely an important function of local news, they spend hours trying to make sense of this stuff and tease out hidden connections so you don't have to.
- legitster 7y agoDon't just look at the Stranger. They are fully capable of making some bad, bad recommendations, often for very petty reasons.
- egypturnash 7y agoI made my own petty decisions in voting, too.