text: Coming Tuesday: Who will The Arizona Republic endorse?
  The Arizona Republic was once called The Arizona Republican, and that heritage has heavily influenced its presidential endorsements.
  For 120 years – from 1892 to 2012 – this newspaper's editorial board has never endorsed a Democrat in a general election.
  We really didn't like FDR, writing in 1944 that his "administration has been characterized by a complete inability to 'play square' with the American people."
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  We've urged readers to vote for venerated Republicans like Ronald Reagan, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Arizona's own John McCain.
  "Nobody in the country knows the Republican presidential candidate better than we do," our endorsement argued in 2008. "And no one is better placed to judge whether he would serve honorably and admirably as president of the United States."