Leading into perhaps the most important election of our lifetime, with the contrast so stark between the directions the nation will head under one or the other of the presidential candidates, the News-Press reiterates its wholehearted endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for President of the U.S., of Mark Warner for the U.S. Senate, and, for the three congressional districts in our immediate distribution area, of Rep. Jim Moran, Chairman Gerry Connolly and Judy Feder for Congress.