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The Register’s Opinion & Commentary team has created this one-stop resource page to help you with your voting decisions, Nov. 6. Below are links to our candidate endorsements in local races, our recommendations on the statewide propositions and local ballot measures, national debates, election news and opinion columns and helpful election websites.
2012 Election Recommendations and Endorsements (All-in-one):
Register Opinion candidate endorsements:
- Editorial: Three for Aliso Viejo Council
- Editorial: Time for Anaheim residents to get stronger voices
- Editorial: Simonoff, Vargas for Brea Council
- Editorial: Smith for Buena Park Council
- Editorial: The best choices to lead Costa Mesa
- Editorial: Cypress Council: No endorsements
- Editorial: Olvera, Stevenson for Dana Point Council
- Editorial: Nagel, Tucker for Fountain Valley Council
- Editorial: Three picks for Fullerton City Council
- Editorial: No preferences for Garden Grove Council, mayor
- Editorial: Three picks for Huntington Beach Council
- Editorial: Two candidates could make Irvine better
- Editorial: Steven Choi for Irvine mayor
- Editorial: La Palma‘s ‘new normal’ needs fresh faces
- Editorial: Steve Dicterow for Laguna Beach Council
- Editorial: Blount, Mathur for Laguna Hills Council
- Editorial: Picks for Laguna Niguel Council
- Editorial: Two candidates endorsed in Lake Forest
- Editorial: Richard Murphy for Los Al Council
- Editorial: Ury, Bucknum best choices for Mission Viejo Council
- Editorial: Grangoff, Callahan for Orange Council
- Editorial: Smith for mayor of Orange
- Editorial: No change needed on Placentia Council
- Editorial: Three picks for Council in Rancho Santa Margarita
- Editorial: Two picks for San Clemente council
- Editorial: Byrnes, McCarthy for Council in San Juan Capistrano
- Editorial: Charles Hart for Santa Ana Council
- Editorial: Stanton council incumbents deserve to stay
- Editorial: Three picks for Tustin Council
- Editorial: In Westminster, Rutkowski, Chi for Council, Mach for mayor
- Editorial: Three for Yorba Linda Council
- Editorial: No contested council races in 3 O.C. cities (Newport Beach, Villa Park, La Habra)
California propositions recommendations:
- Prop. 31: Prop. 31 (state budget): No
- Prop. 32: Yes on Prop. 32 (unions)
- Prop. 33 (car insurance premiums): Yes
- Prop. 34: No on Prop. 34 (repeal of death penalty)
- Prop. 35: Yes on Prop. 35 (human trafficking)
- Prop. 36: Yes on Prop. 36, revising ’3 strikes’
- Prop. 37: No on Prop. 37 (food labeling)
- Prop. 39: No on Prop. 39 (business taxes)
O.C. ballot measures recommendations:
- Measure AA: Yes on H.B. Measure AA (Sunset Beach)
- Measure BB: No on Irvine Measure BB (school funds)
- Measure CC: No on Laguna Beach CC
- Measure DD: No on Los Alamitos Measure DD
- Measure EE: No on Newport Beach’s Measure EE
- Measure FF: Yes on city of Orange Measure FF
- Measure GG: No on Santa Ana Measure GG
- Measure HH: Yes on Tustin Measure HH
- Measures M, N, O, P, Q, R, S: Editorial: School, college bonds: No
- Measure T, U: No on Brea Measures T & U
- Measure V: Yes on Costa Mesa Measure V (city charter)
- Measure W: Yes on Fullerton Measure W
Columns/editorials/news about California propositions, issues:
- O.C. REGISTER’S VOTER GUIDE
- Gloria Romero Voters can make history with Yes on Prop. 32
- Editorial: Will Prop. 30 chase out more millionaires?
- Lisa Snell: Warring tax initiatives make case for Prop. 32
- Daneen Lindner: Prop. 37: a label, not a ban
- Editorial: Feinstein the fence-mender?
- Editorial: Brown’s crumbling case for Prop. 30
- Editorial: Debate dodges diss voters
- Editorial: DeLong for Congress in 47th District
- Jon Coupal: Does California want to be No. 1 for taxes?
- Lance Izumi: Prop. 30 hikes taxes without fixing K-12 systemic flaws
- Sand, Schwartz, Friedrichs: Prop. 32 gives teachers a voice
- Troy Senik: Prop. 39 a de facto tax on doing business in California
- Gloria Romero: Parents demanding more charter schools
- Another view: Yes on Prop. 30
- Jamie Court: No on Prop. 33
- Yarbrough & Wagner: Prop. 30 about pensions, not education
- Stacy Malkan: Yes on Prop. 37
- Gloria Romero: $50 million to fight Prop. 32?
- Editorial: Debating America’s role in the world
- Editorial: Eyes of O.C. on Costa Mesa
- Benjamin Zycher: Capital punishment is necessary; No on Prop. 34
- Editorial: Travis Allen for 72nd Assembly District
- Editorial: Point of no return for Prop. 30?
- Debra Saunders: Brown’s tax (Prop. 30) comes with a price
- Editorial: O.C.’s new congressman
- Editorial: Prop. 30 limping toward finish line
- John Fleischman: Prop. 39 bad for business, California consumers
- Michael Anton: Prop. 31, a Trojan Horse initiative
- Gloria Romero: $50 million to fight Prop. 32?
- Dan Walters: Prop. 32 as payback for Prop. 25
- Editorial: O.C.’s new congressman
- Editorial: Prop. 30 limping toward finish line
- Gary Galles: (Prop. 32) Yes, stop the special exemptions
- Another view: (George Shultz) Prop. 39 brings jobs, closes tax loopholes
- Fred Smoller: What happens if Prop. 30 loses?
- Dan Walters: Prop. 30 push using public resources
- Editorials: Brown’s ‘or else’ approach to Prop. 30
- Michelle Steel: Prop. 30 makes life harder for everyone
- Prop. 30: Academia pushing hard for Prop. 30
- Another view: (Catherine L. Fisk) No on Prop. 32
- Another view: No on Prop. 32
- Bethany Webb: Yes on Prop. 34
- Gloria Romero: The truth about Prop. 32
- Gloria Romero: (Prop. 32) A teacher at odds with her union
- Dan Walters: Prop. 32 a political tug of war
- Conko & Miller: (Prop. 37) A losing proposition on food labeling
- Another view: No on Fullerton Measure W
- Another view: Brea Measures T, U
- Jon Coupal: Hundreds of local tax hikes on ballot
Your Letters to the Editor:
Televised presidential debates
National columns about Election 2012 / election issues:
- Robert Samuelson: Stark economic realities buried in election politics
- Julia Shaw: Electoral College imperfect but preserves federalism best
- Michael Strain: It’s OK to talk about the election
- Dan Thomasson: Christie, Obama put politic
- Charles Krauthammer: 2012 is a critical choice
- Robert Samuelson: New realities push pollsters to day of reckoning
- Ed Feulner: Welfare spending nears $1 trillion
- Debra Saunders: Romney’s not perfect, but he may get the job done
- Charles Krauthammer: Obama lost the 3rd debate
- Ron Hart: Debunking Obama’s campaign themes
- George Will: Debate uncovers America’s semi-McGovern moment
- Trudy Rubin: Candidates need to get serious on foreign policy
- Ron Hart: From ‘Hope and Change’ to ‘Smirk and Disdain’
- Thomas Sowell: Obama debates truth
- Thomas Friedman: We need daring leadership
- Victor Davis Hanson: What the debates taught u
- Michael Tanner: No matter who wins, debate hoisted red flags
- Yuval Levin: The final debate
- Jamelle Bouie: Obama’s total knockout in Round 3
- Charles Krauthammer: Romney won unequivocally
- Matt Zeller: Obama handily wins third debate
- Victor Davis Hanson: Romney should be pleased
- Haberman & Thrush: 5 things to watch in the debate tonight
- Bing West: Benghazi: First, aid the living
- Heritage: Debate prep: America’s role in the world
- Amy Payne: 5 crucial questions for the presidential foreign policy debate
- E.J. Dionne: What Obama’s 2nd term agenda looks like
- Bill Keller: Presidential Mitt
- Nate Silver: Obama remains electoral college favorite
- Josh Jordan: Nate Silver’s flawed model
- Alec MacGillis: Has Benghazi opportunism run its course
- Luke Coffey: The Obama Doctrine: A failed policy
- Jason Zengerle: Chew on the Obama campaign’s official sales pitch
- Conn Carroll: Mitt’s economic momentum
- David Rothkopf: Obama’s foreign policy on trial
- Richard Ralston: Casting a vote for your medical care
- Joseph Curl: Crowley skews hard for Obama in disastrous debate
- Steve Kornacki: Obama’s best debate, ever
- Fred Barnes: Not the game changer Obama needed
- David Harsanyi: Obama’s record wins it for Mitt, again
- Greg Sargent: Obama turns it around
- Wall Street Journal: Candidates tangle in fractious debate
- Peggy Noonan: Confusing strength with aggression
- Jonathan Cohn: Biden gave Democrats the show they wanted and needed
- Yuval Levin: Classless Joe
- Matt Sledge: Joe Biden gives Obama minor bump
- Fred Barnes: Biden bombed
- Wall Street Journal: (Hook & Yadron) VP debate likely to be combative
- Politico: (Haberman & Thrush) 5 things to watch in VP debate
- Daniel Foster: Joe’s World: On VP’s foreign policy ‘advantage’
- Gail Collins: Democrats at the deep end
- Thomas Sowell: Voters sick and tired of the race card
- Sherrilyn A. Ifill: Why blacks voters reject Romney
- Major Garrett: Obama’s Ohio silver lining
- Scott Conroy: VP debate will feature generational gap
- Howard Fineman: Election ain’t over ’til it’s over
- The Hill: Romney up huge with Independents
- Jack Welch: I was right about that strange jobs report
- Lara Logan says administration lying about Taliban/Al-Qaida
- Christopher Dickey: Romney’s living in a fantasy land
- Ralston Report: Steve Wynn says Obama policies hurt business
- Wall Street Journal: Big Bird, small president
- Globe and Mail: Romney wrong to blame Obama for the world’s dangers
- Buzz Bissinger: Why I’m voting for Mitt Romney
- Jennifer Granholm: The moral choice is clear in 2012
- Holly Bailey: Romney met former SEAL killed in Benghazi
- Amity Shlaes: Election won’t prevent pension crash
- Robert Reich: The politics of fear and the party of non-voters
Some helpful websites for voters:
Opinion’s one-stop 2012 Election resource is a post from: Orange Punch
