Today’s endorsement of Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for president no doubt answers one of the questions some of you may have had leading up to the state’s Jan. 8 primary.

The editorial addresses both the who and the why, but it doesn’t say much about the how – that is, the process used by The Telegraph editorial board to arrive at a Democratic endorsement today and a Republican endorsement to be published next Sunday.

So I thought it would be beneficial to spend a few minutes explaining what might otherwise seem like a mysterious process.

During my 18 years here at The Telegraph, I've had the opportunity to meet and interview dozens of presidential candidates, either as the newsroom coordinator of our presidential primary coverage or, this time around, as a member of the newspaper's editorial board.

Among those candidates were two who ultimately made it all the way to the Oval Office: Democrat William Jefferson Clinton in 1992 and Republican George Walker Bush in 2000.

And, given that our editorial board has interviewed most of the major candidates so far this year, it's my expectation that we've already met or will meet the individual who will become the 44th president of the United States.

But there's something else that has made this year's presidential editorial board sessions special -- and that's been our partnership with instructor Jim Pfeiffer and his video production and broadcasting students at Nashua High School South.