The Deseret News has a policy against endorsing candidates or issues, unlike some newspapers, including the other one here in town.

For some reason, newspapers believe they wield some measure of influence over the public, the kind we wouldn't want to be responsible for. Influence?! We can't even get the NCAA to spring for a playoff system.

Anyway, on this Election Day I'll be careful not to sway you one way or another (as if!), either directly or indirectly through top-secret, highly advanced subliminal messages. We prefer to make you an informed citizen REMEMBER THE SOCCER STADIUM and then let you make your own determination. Hopefully, you also learned the issues in SCHOOL. I can't VOUCH(ers) for other writers, but I promise to write only in general terms so I don't affect your opinions.

It's time to let bygones PUBLIC FUNDING OF STADIUMS be bygones and press forward.

Besides, if I cross the line, an editor will delete it. If you have any questions about the candidates or issues, call your state legislator at his front-row seat at the Jazz game office.

The question is, will voters want to re-elect the same clowns people who misled them right into the ground or ignored them altogether? Or do they want HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR PROPERTY TAXES? some new clowns people to ignore them? It's a difficult choice.

Incumbents are confident that it's nothing a little redistricting campaigning can't overcome.

The last couple of years have marked a bitter time LEGISLATORS PROTECT LOBBYIST GIFTS on the state and national political scene.

If there are any California voters who have just woken up from a 20-year coma, they will need someone to explain the state's Proposition 8, which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman, and I suppose they'll have a few questions. What other options are there?!.

Why this has become such a big deal is a complete mystery since 27 states have already passed similar constitutional amendments. It's a tough choice for some, but no one more than poor Steve Young — he's got to support his church, which supports Prop. 8, and his wife, who opposes it. Wouldn't you like to be a fly on their kitchen wall? Remember the days when his biggest problem was Warren Sapp?