A GOP challenger to an entrenched Dem incumbent receives an endorsement from the district's largest newspaper for this? Earlier this week, the Duluth News Tribube endorsed Republican Chip Cravaack for Congress over 18 term Democrat incumbent master of pork barrel spending Jim Oberstar.  The well publicized debate last week seems to have been the tipping point as I suspect many of the paper's readers hadn't seen Oberstar in action in years. It's interesting that one decider for the editors at the Duluth News Tribune seems to be how Oberstar ventured onto non politically correct turf during an attack on greedy health insurance companies while defending his vote for ObamaCare.But the incumbent also made an off-the-cuff comment that could only be characterized as offensive. Describing his family's efforts to get medication for his 9-year-old granddaughter's pancreatitis, Oberstar said a family member "finally got a human on the line....(Read Full Post)