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Your chance to take part in the endorsement discussion

No presidential election in my memory has produced the intensity of interest in newspaper endorsements as the campaign between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Soon, the Daily Herald will release our recommendation. In conjunction with that, we want to solicit your participation in a special presentation acknowledging the value of broad and open political debate.

As always, we will make an endorsement, and, as always, it will be the result of studied, serious and respectful - though possibly at times, heated - deliberation among members of the Daily Herald's editorial board and institutional leadership. We hope and expect our ideas will give readers ideas to consider that will help them make their choice, whichever candidate they support at the polls.

But in addition, we want to expand the forum for a wide-ranging reflection on the presidential race. To that end, we're inviting you to weigh in now on which candidate you support and why.

Already, of course, many of you have been writing about your presidential preferences, and, to be sure, we will present a variety of your and your neighbors' viewpoints in the letters column all the way until Election Day.

But in particular for this project, we'd like you express your presidential preferences as you would state them if you were trying to persuade others to your point of view.

Send us your thoughts in an email to fencepost@dailyherald.com with the word "endorsement" in the SUBJECT: field.

We'll use them to produce a special presentation covering the full scope of this uncommon campaign.

Keep in mind the usual conditions for letters to the editor. Letters cannot be more than 300 words. Depending on volume and space available, they may be edited or excerpted, though the full letters will be posted online as long as they meet the 300-word restriction.

Writers must include their full names and hometowns and provide us a telephone number, not for publication, where we can reach them if necessary.

From their earliest days, newspapers have played an important role in engaging debate about issues as well as in covering them. The Daily Herald remains committed to that role. This year, we see an opportunity to build on it and offer a presentation that reflects the diversity of opinion on which democracy thrives.

We hope you'll participate in the process along with us.

Jim Slusher, jslusher@dailyherald.com, is an assistant managing editor at the Daily Herald. Follow him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/jim.slusher1 and on Twitter at @JimSlusher.

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