Malloy: To endorse or not to endorse

Thirty years ago. That was the last time Idaho had an election with drama throughout the ticket. Sure, there have been some isolated good races along the way – most recently in the 1st Congressional District. And in the early 1990s, with Democrats earning a tie in the Senate, there was plenty of suspense with legislative races. Since then, Idaho elections, especially congressional and statewide races, have had all the drama of those old communist Soviet Union ballots. Republicans always win, and incumbents almost always win. That creates a problem for newspapers that endorse candidates, and especially for the Idaho Statesman, which two years ago limited its endorsements to statewide and congressional elections. The Statesman’s endorsements largely turned out to be an exercise of rubber-stamping incumbents, who had the on-the-job experience and were far better prepared than their challengers to address the issues/ Chuck Malloy , Idaho Politics Weekly. More here.

Question: Do you prefer that newspapers provide political endorsements on their opinion pages — or not?