More than we can publish

4 comments October 22nd, 2008

Letters to the editor about the Nov. 4 election are due by 5 p.m. Friday, but already we have more letters than can be published between now and Nov. 2, the last day we run election-related letters.

Early in the campaign season we run letters as they come in. Many people like to wait until as late as possible because they think their letter will have more impact for their candidate or their issue the closer to the election it runs.

That’s a good strategy, but when you have as many contested races on the ballot as we have this year, it’s difficult to to get them all in.

In past years I’ve eliminated national columnists the week before the election so I could use as many letters as possible. I’ve received many complaints about that from folks who say they’d rather read what Krauthammer, Thomas, Parker, Robinson, Goodman, etc. have to say than read another election letter.

We’ll run as many as possible, but not all will make it.