Why do people blog as if The Seattle Times endorsements matter? They ceased to be relevant when the Times endorsed George W. Bush for President. The Blethens automatically choose the candidate believed to be least favorably disposed to organized labor, and wonder why, in a recession, people aren't voting the way people with $98,000 cars vote.

It can't be easy for Ms. Balter and other non-Blethen people assigned to the Times' anonymous editorial team to endure association with the Blethens' conservative picks, suspecting that the print copies of the endorsements are lining the litter boxes of pets belonging to the high-information voters.