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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The turnout in these races is so low.  Too bad the flawed Washington post process contributed to the election results.   Hope they have a more diverse editorial panelists next time (rather than the mansplainer who thinks that women with young kids can’t run for office.) [/quote]

Turnouts are low for primaries like this. [b]The Post’s process probably helped the female candidates asked inappropriate questions, but they were still weaker candidates who did not prevail.[/b][/quote]

What a bizarre post ^^ by the PP.  [b] There's no evidence that lack of endorsement helped any non-endorsed candidate.[/quote][/b]

You can't simply conclude from the fact that a candidate won that the Post's endorsement made a difference, either, but that doesn't seem to be stopping you.  [/quote]

FWIW, the post also endorsed Morrough.  He lost.[/quote]

Here's Kojo Nnamdi interviewing a professor who is an expert on elections.  Evidence suggests that for local elections, where people are not as informed, endorsements matter.

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https://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2019-06-05/how-local-news-organizations-make-political-endorsements
NNAMDI
What do we know and what do we not know about how much political endorsements from the press actually matter in an election?

12:37:34
USHER
So there is -- most of the research is on presidential endorsements. We know relatively less about municipal endorsements. It seems that with presidential endorsements the research suggests that if the endorsement coincides with your view, you might have a slight budge. But again, a lot of this research is from the nineties and a less crowded media environment. So it actually needs a bunch of updating. That said, since the nineties, 70 percent of news organizations have decided to stop making presidential endorsements.

12:38:11
USHER
[b]And so for as far as local municipal elections, what matters is that often editorial boards and local news are the only people invested enough to actually bother to go out and ask candidates. And so often for local elections, this is an essential source of information for people.[/b]
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