The two major daily newspapers in the Twin Cities have issued their endorsements in the DFL US Senate race. The Star Tribune endorsed Democratic US Senate candidate Mike Ciresi as the best DFL candidate to run against incumbent Republican Senator Rod Grams. The St. Paul Pioneer Press endorsed Rebecca Yanish last month. Vaughn Ververs is managing editor of the Hotline, a daily news briefing on American politics. He says that in today's world of the internet, television and newstands full of magazines an endorsement is not as important as it was in the early days of print: