S.F. Chronicle Endorses Schwarzenegger

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be sweeping the endorsement game with California's big newspapers, including The Times, the Sacramento Bee, the Bakersfield Californian, the Daily News of L.A., the Riverside Press-Enterprise, the Modesto and Fresno Bees, the Long Beach Press-Telegram, the Redding Record-Searchlight, the Stockton Record, and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.

I'm not sure a newspaper's imprimatur matters much anymore; sometimes it might even hurt. Nevertheless, it's a longstanding political courtship between the print media and candidates. The S.F. Chronicle just posted its explanation for endorsing Schwarzenegger: "Overall, he's on the right course." My old editors said about Angelides: "His options were too thick with rhetoric, too thin with plausible solutions."