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After evaluating 63 candidates, making endorsements in 36 races and recommendations for two ballot propositions, and publishing 12 endorsement newsletters, Election Day is upon us — and with it, the agonizing wait for results.

The is our final newsletter of the 2024 cycle and an opportunity for us to say thank you for your loyalty and support. While not everyone agreed with every recommendation, the give and take we shared can only help widen perspectives. And we thank the local, state and congressional candidates for sharing respectful and thoughtful conversations and for appreciating our role in the democratic process.

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Before signing off to wait for the results tonight, we thought you might enjoy taking a look back 84 years ago, at the first time Newsday weighed in on a presidential contest. While Europe was in turmoil, the U.S. was not yet drawn into World War II. In 1940, as the fledgling Newsday was being published from a garage in Hempstead, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was seeking an unprecedented third term. The editor and publisher of Newsday, Alicia Patterson, strongly supported the Democrat Roosevelt but Harry Guggenheim, who was joint-owner of Newsday with her, favored Republican Wendell Willkie. 

Since Patterson and Guggenheim were married, the matter got resolved equitably with His and Her viewpoints that ran side by side. Three times. Click here to see the original print of the first installment in that series from Oct. 22, 1940.

Endorsements are determined solely by the Newsday editorial board, a team of opinion journalists focused on issues of public policy and governance. Newsday’s news division has no role in this process.