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.