In today’s Morning Jolt , Jim Geraghty flags the San Francisco Chronicle’s refusal to endorse Barbara Boxer in the California Senate race, which also presents an opportunity to round up links to Jim’s excellent “Barbara Boxer’s Bad Week” series, detailing the cronyism, nepotism, and rascalism that has characterized Boxer’s tenure.

If independents and Democrats in Californians are vacillating, they might start here:

Newspaper endorsements don’t move many votes — ask Creigh Deeds how endless love letters from the Washington Post helped him in last year’s governor’s race — and the polls have looked a little better for Barbara Boxer lately. But the San Francisco Chronicle editors’ refusal to endorse Boxer as one might expect has to be something of a morale hit for them. In a way, the non-endorsement reinforces the point I tried to make with last week’s series, that entirely separate from her very liberal voting record, there are a lot of reasons to want to see Boxer out of the Senate: her purchasing of endorsements, the five-figure expenses tied to her jaunts to do “official business” at beach resorts, her 143 bounced checks for more than $40,000 in three years, her massive payments to her family from campaign funds, and her amazing capacity to remember things that didn’t happen.

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