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Editor’s Note: The Kenosha News is an independent newspaper. Its endorsements reflect its interest in sound government as well as the abilities and integrity of those who aspire to high office. We believe that it is our responsibility to share our knowledge and observations with our readers.

In our collective years of voting, we have never experienced a more unpleasant and unprofessional presidential campaign season. It’s been embarrassing, disgusting and laughable at times to endure the twists and turns that we all have been dragged through as Americans.

If Americans didn’t look incompetent and silly to the world before, we certainly do now. At the last act of this circus we find ourselves with four candidates: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. Like it or not, these are our choices.

It would have been easy for us to sit this one out. We talked about that and while it was tempting to some of us, others prevailed because we feel a responsibility to share our perspective.

This responsibility seems all the more significant this year, in a political environment that sunk to new lows last week, with the emergence of a 2005 audio recording of Trump referring to women and his sexual desires in terms too lewd to publish on this page.