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Atlas · 10-20-2008, 11:48 AM

Endorsement Tally -- Obama Widens Lead to 115-38

By Greg Mitchell and Dexter Hill

Published: October 20, 2008 11:50 AM ET updated Monday

NEW YORK (Updated Monday) The Obama-Biden ticket maintains its strong lead in the race for daily newspaper endorsements, by 115 to 38, a better than 3-1 margin, picking up 70 or more papers in the past three days, including (see separate stories), the Detroit Free Press, Buffalo News, Cleveland's Plain Dealer, Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, New York's Daily News, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Portland's The Oregonian, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Salt Lake Tribune, Kansas City Star, and Chicago Sun-Times.

In a real shocker, two solid Bush papers in 2004, the Houston Chronicle and Austin American-Statesman, also came out for Obama today. So did the more traditionally Democratic the News & Obsever in Raleigh and the Orlando Sentinel, both in key battleground states.

Obama's lopsided margin, including most of the major papers that have decided so far, is in stark contrast to John Kerry barely edging George W. Bush in endorsements in 2004 by 213 to 205.

We have also added up the circulation of the papers endorsing each candidate. Here Obama leads almost 4-1: 13.4 million to 3.7 million.

McCain did pick up a Texas nod from the San Antonio paper, plus a big one from the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio, as well as The San Diego Union-Tribune. All backed Bush in 2000 and 2004.

Note: We are updating this story and list often so return for additions.

The NY Daily News was yet another paper, now numbering at least 25, that backed George W. Bush in 2004 and now support Obama. The Long Beach (Ca.) Press-Telegram and Asbury Park (NJ) Press did the same. So did the San Gabriel Valley (Ca.) Tribune, Salt Lake Tribune, The Naples (Fla.) Daily-News, the New Haven (CT) Register, the Times-Reporter in New Philadelphia (Ohio), Las CRuces (NM) Sun-Newsm, Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gazette and the Yakima Herald-Republic in Washington, among others. In addition, the Plain Dealer of Cleveland, which sat out the 2004 contest, endorsed Obama. McCain has picked up only one Kerry paper so far: The Daily Press of Newport News, Va.

Some of the other Sunday endorsements in no particular order:

For McCain: Las Vegas Review, Jackson (Miss.) Sun, Fargo (ND) Forum, Bakersfield (Ca.) Californian, Leaf-Chronicle of Clarksville, Tenn., The Daily Press of Hampton Roads, Va., several papers in Texas (Lubbock, Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Longview, Wichita Falls).

For Obama: Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News, Salem (Ore.) Statesman-Journal, Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, Idaho Statesman, Las Vegas Sun, Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal, Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal, Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune, The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.), Daily Breeze of Torrance, Ca., Rockford (Ill.) Register, Nashua (NH) Telegraph, Concord (NH) Monitor, Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard, Daily Herald of Arlington, Ill, Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, Mid-Columbia Tri-City Herald.

Please send any endorsements you see or make to:
gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com.

Obama also yesterday gained the backing of two major weeklies: The New York Observer (NYC) and Willamette Week in Oregon.

Here is the latest chart of dailies which we are about to update for Sunday. As always, we include in brackets who the paper went with in 2004 with B=Bush and K=Kerry.
*
BARACK OBAMA

115 daily newspapers total
13.4 million circulation

ALABAMA

Tuscaloosa News (K):

ARKANSAS
Arkansas Times (K): 34,000

CALIFORNIA
The Argus (Fremont) (K): 26,749
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek) (K): 183,086
Daily Breeze (Torrance)
Daily Review (Hayward) (K): 30,704
The Fresno Bee (K): 150,334
La Opinion (Los Angeles) (K): 114,892
Long Beach Press Telegram (B)
Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles Times (N/A): 773,884
Marin Independent-Journal (K)
The Modesto Bee (K): 78,001
The Monterey County Herald (K): 28,933
Oakland Tribune (K): 96,535
Pasadena Star-News (B)
San Gabriel Valley Tribune (B)
The (Stockton) Record (B): 57,486
The Sacramento Bee (K): 288,755
San Bernardino Sun (B): 54,315
San Francisco Chronicle (K): 370,345
San Jose Mercury News (K): 234,772
San Mateo County Times (K): 25,982
Santa Cruz Sentinel (K): 23,290
Tri-Valley Herald (B): 29,759

COLORADO
Boulder Camera (K)
Cortez Journal (K): 6,700
The Denver Post (B)
The Durango Herald (K): 8,870
Gunnison Country Times (N/A): 4,000
Ouray County Plaindealer (K): 3,000

CONNECTICUT
New Haven Register (B)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The Washington Post (K): 673,180

FLORIDA
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Miami Herald (K):
Naples Daily-News (B)
Orlando Sentinel (K):
Palm Beach Post
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (K)

GEORGIA
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (K)

HAWAII
Honolulu Star-Bulletin (K): 64,305

IDAHO
Idaho Statesman (K):

ILLINOIS
Arlington Heights Daily Herald
Chicago Tribune (B): 541,663
Chicago Sun-Times (K):
Daily Herald (Arlington) (K)
Rockford Register (K)
Southwest News-Herald (K)

INDIANA
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Palladium-Item (B)

IOWA
The Hawk Eye
Mason City Globe Gazette (B)
The Storm Lake Times (K): 3,200

KENTUCKY
Lexington Herald-Leader (K)

MAINE
Bangor Daily News (K)
Brunswick Times-Record (K)

MASSACHUSETTS
The Boston Globe (K): 350,605
The Standard-Times (New Bedford) (K): 30,306

MICHIGAN
Detroit Free Press (K):
The Muskegon Chronicle (K): 41,114

MISSOURI
Columbia Daily Tribune
Kansas City Star
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (K): 255,057

NEVADA
Las Vegas Sun

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Concord Monitor (K)
Nashua Telegraph (K)

NEW JERSEY
Asbury Park Press

NEW MEXICO
Las Cruces Sun-News (B)
Santa Fe New Mexican (K): 25,249

NEVADA
Las Vegas Sun (K)

NEW YORK
Buffalo News (K)
The Daily News (B)
el Diario: 53,856

NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville Citizen-Times (K): 50,160
Durham Herald-Sun
Greenville Daily Reflector
News & Observer (Raleigh) (K)
Wilmington Star-News (K)

OHIO
Akron Beacon-Journal (K):
The (Toledo) Blade (K): 119,901
Dayton Daily News (K): 116,690
The (Canton) Repository (B): 65,789
Times-Reporter (New Philadelphia)
Springfield News-Sun (K): 24,684
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

OREGON
Register-Guard (Eugene) (K):
Mail Tribune (Medford) (K): 30,349
The Oregonian of Portland (K)
Salem Statesman-Journal (K)
Yamhill Valley News-Register

PENNSYLVANIA
The Daily Item of Sunbury
The Express-Times (Easton) (B): 44,561
Philadelphia Inquirer (K):
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (K): 214,374

TENNESSEE
Chattanooga Times (K): 71,716
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) (K): 146,961
The (Nashville) Tennessean (K): 161,131

TEXAS
Austin American-Statesman (B)
Bryan/College Station Eagle
Houston Chronicle (B)
The Lufkin Daily News (K): 12,225

UTAH
The Salt Lake Tribune (B):

VERMONT
Burlington Free Press (K)

VIRGINIA
Falls Church News-Press (K): 30,500

WASHINGTON
The Columbian (B): 44,623
The Olympian (K)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (K): 129,563
The Seattle Times (K): 220,883
Tri-City Herald (K)
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Yakima Herald-Republic (B)

WEST VIRGINIA
The Charleston Gazette (K): 48,061
Huntington Herald-Dispatch (K)

WISCONSIN
The Capital Times (Madison) (K): 16,335
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) (B): 87,930

JOHN McCAIN
38 newspapers total
3.7 million daily circulation

CALIFORNIA
Bakersfield Californian (B)
Napa Valley Register: 16,283
Riverside Press-Enterprise (B)
The San Francisco Examiner (B): 80,000
San Diego Union-Tribune (B)

COLORADO
Mountain Valley News (Cedaredge): 2,000
The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction) (B): 31,349
The Pueblo Chieftain (B): 49,169
Daily Times-Call (Longmont) (B)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The Washington DC Examiner (N/A): 100,073

FLORIDA
Bradenton Herald
Tampa Tribune

MARYLAND
The Baltimore Examiner (N/A): 50,000

MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Herald (B): 182,350
The (Lowell) Sun (B): 44,439

MINNESOTA
The Journal (New Ulm):

MISSISSIPPI
Jackson Sun (B)

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Foster’s Daily Democrat (B): 22,547
Union Leader (Manchester) (B): 51,782

NEVADA
Las Vegas Review (B)

NEW YORK
New York Post (B): 702,488

NORTH DAKOTA
Fargo Forum (B)

OHIO
Columbus Dispatch (B)
The (Findlay) Courier (B): 22,319

OREGON
Bend Bulletin (B)

TENNESSEE
Leaf-Chronicle of Clarksville (B)
The Jackson Sun (B)

TEXAS
Amarillo Globe-News (B): 44,764
Beaumont Enterprise
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Dallas Morning News (B):
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
San Antonio Express-News
Wharton Journal Spectator
Wichita Falls Times Record

VIRGINIA
The Daily Press (Hampton Roads) (K)
The Winchester Star

WASHINGTON
(Spokane) Spokesman-Review (B): 89,779

WEST VIRGINIA
Wheeling News-Register (B): 12,821

Paladin · 10-20-2008, 11:59 AM

Newspaper endorsements really don't matter a whole lot. But there are some nutjobs out there who will folow the "recommendations" religiously.

Oh, wait. That's the Evangelists. Okay, follow them........somewhat.

Hotrod · 10-20-2008, 12:01 PM

FWIW I am endorsing the only man in the race who has truely fought for you.

Or something like that. I see the Gunny paper is on the wrong side of the aisle. Trying to get the hippys on the north end of the valley to buy subscriptions is my guess.

TailgateNut · 10-20-2008, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dortoh

FWIW I am endorsing the only man in the race who has truely fought for you.

.

Puleeze. You sound like the redneck ****s who gathered across the street from my house to discuss my "anti-McStain/ MooseMomma" sign. Yellow streak ****s didn't have the balls to say anything.

Hotrod · 10-20-2008, 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TailgateNut

Puleeze. You sound like the redneck ****s who gathered across the street from my house to discuss my "anti-McStain/ MooseMomma" sign. Yellow streak ****s didn't have the balls to say anything.

Dude it was a ****ing joke. You really need to loosen up just abit

TailgateNut · 10-20-2008, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dortoh

Dude it was a ****ing joke. You really need to loosen up just abit

See this:

, or this:

. Use them, it helps loosen up the situation.

I'll loosen up in about 20 minutes. Chasing all my employees off the job and heading to the seafood shop to grab a bunch of Clams.

Mississippi Mud and steamed clams with a side of butter and hot sauce at game time.

ak1971 · 10-20-2008, 02:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TailgateNut

grab a bunch of Clams.

:

does your wife know about this?

TailgateNut · 10-20-2008, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ak1971

does your wife know about this?

I "warned her this morning".

It's seafood night at Nuts' house.

Clams and Chowda!

....and BEER!

10-20-2008, 11:48 AM	#1
Atlas Draft Defense Early&Often Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 18,526	Who is Edorsing Whom? Endorsement Tally -- Obama Widens Lead to 115-38 By Greg Mitchell and Dexter Hill Published: October 20, 2008 11:50 AM ET updated Monday NEW YORK (Updated Monday) The Obama-Biden ticket maintains its strong lead in the race for daily newspaper endorsements, by 115 to 38, a better than 3-1 margin, picking up 70 or more papers in the past three days, including (see separate stories), the Detroit Free Press, Buffalo News, Cleveland's Plain Dealer, Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, New York's Daily News, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Portland's The Oregonian, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Salt Lake Tribune, Kansas City Star, and Chicago Sun-Times. In a real shocker, two solid Bush papers in 2004, the Houston Chronicle and Austin American-Statesman, also came out for Obama today. So did the more traditionally Democratic the News & Obsever in Raleigh and the Orlando Sentinel, both in key battleground states. Obama's lopsided margin, including most of the major papers that have decided so far, is in stark contrast to John Kerry barely edging George W. Bush in endorsements in 2004 by 213 to 205. We have also added up the circulation of the papers endorsing each candidate. Here Obama leads almost 4-1: 13.4 million to 3.7 million. McCain did pick up a Texas nod from the San Antonio paper, plus a big one from the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio, as well as The San Diego Union-Tribune. All backed Bush in 2000 and 2004. Note: We are updating this story and list often so return for additions. The NY Daily News was yet another paper, now numbering at least 25, that backed George W. Bush in 2004 and now support Obama. The Long Beach (Ca.) Press-Telegram and Asbury Park (NJ) Press did the same. So did the San Gabriel Valley (Ca.) Tribune, Salt Lake Tribune, The Naples (Fla.) Daily-News, the New Haven (CT) Register, the Times-Reporter in New Philadelphia (Ohio), Las CRuces (NM) Sun-Newsm, Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gazette and the Yakima Herald-Republic in Washington, among others. In addition, the Plain Dealer of Cleveland, which sat out the 2004 contest, endorsed Obama. McCain has picked up only one Kerry paper so far: The Daily Press of Newport News, Va. Some of the other Sunday endorsements in no particular order: For McCain: Las Vegas Review, Jackson (Miss.) Sun, Fargo (ND) Forum, Bakersfield (Ca.) Californian, Leaf-Chronicle of Clarksville, Tenn., The Daily Press of Hampton Roads, Va., several papers in Texas (Lubbock, Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Longview, Wichita Falls). For Obama: Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News, Salem (Ore.) Statesman-Journal, Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, Idaho Statesman, Las Vegas Sun, Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal, Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal, Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune, The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.), Daily Breeze of Torrance, Ca., Rockford (Ill.) Register, Nashua (NH) Telegraph, Concord (NH) Monitor, Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard, Daily Herald of Arlington, Ill, Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, Mid-Columbia Tri-City Herald. Please send any endorsements you see or make to: gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com. Obama also yesterday gained the backing of two major weeklies: The New York Observer (NYC) and Willamette Week in Oregon. Here is the latest chart of dailies which we are about to update for Sunday. As always, we include in brackets who the paper went with in 2004 with B=Bush and K=Kerry. * BARACK OBAMA 115 daily newspapers total 13.4 million circulation ALABAMA Tuscaloosa News (K): ARKANSAS Arkansas Times (K): 34,000 CALIFORNIA The Argus (Fremont) (K): 26,749 Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek) (K): 183,086 Daily Breeze (Torrance) Daily Review (Hayward) (K): 30,704 The Fresno Bee (K): 150,334 La Opinion (Los Angeles) (K): 114,892 Long Beach Press Telegram (B) Los Angeles Daily News Los Angeles Times (N/A): 773,884 Marin Independent-Journal (K) The Modesto Bee (K): 78,001 The Monterey County Herald (K): 28,933 Oakland Tribune (K): 96,535 Pasadena Star-News (B) San Gabriel Valley Tribune (B) The (Stockton) Record (B): 57,486 The Sacramento Bee (K): 288,755 San Bernardino Sun (B): 54,315 San Francisco Chronicle (K): 370,345 San Jose Mercury News (K): 234,772 San Mateo County Times (K): 25,982 Santa Cruz Sentinel (K): 23,290 Tri-Valley Herald (B): 29,759 COLORADO Boulder Camera (K) Cortez Journal (K): 6,700 The Denver Post (B) The Durango Herald (K): 8,870 Gunnison Country Times (N/A): 4,000 Ouray County Plaindealer (K): 3,000 CONNECTICUT New Haven Register (B) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The Washington Post (K): 673,180 FLORIDA Daytona Beach News-Journal Miami Herald (K): Naples Daily-News (B) Orlando Sentinel (K): Palm Beach Post Sarasota Herald-Tribune (K) GEORGIA Atlanta Journal-Constitution (K) HAWAII Honolulu Star-Bulletin (K): 64,305 IDAHO Idaho Statesman (K): ILLINOIS Arlington Heights Daily Herald Chicago Tribune (B): 541,663 Chicago Sun-Times (K): Daily Herald (Arlington) (K) Rockford Register (K) Southwest News-Herald (K) INDIANA Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Palladium-Item (B) IOWA The Hawk Eye Mason City Globe Gazette (B) The Storm Lake Times (K): 3,200 KENTUCKY Lexington Herald-Leader (K) MAINE Bangor Daily News (K) Brunswick Times-Record (K) MASSACHUSETTS The Boston Globe (K): 350,605 The Standard-Times (New Bedford) (K): 30,306 MICHIGAN Detroit Free Press (K): The Muskegon Chronicle (K): 41,114 MISSOURI Columbia Daily Tribune Kansas City Star St. Louis Post-Dispatch (K): 255,057 NEVADA Las Vegas Sun NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord Monitor (K) Nashua Telegraph (K) NEW JERSEY Asbury Park Press NEW MEXICO Las Cruces Sun-News (B) Santa Fe New Mexican (K): 25,249 NEVADA Las Vegas Sun (K) NEW YORK Buffalo News (K) The Daily News (B) el Diario: 53,856 NORTH CAROLINA Asheville Citizen-Times (K): 50,160 Durham Herald-Sun Greenville Daily Reflector News & Observer (Raleigh) (K) Wilmington Star-News (K) OHIO Akron Beacon-Journal (K): The (Toledo) Blade (K): 119,901 Dayton Daily News (K): 116,690 The (Canton) Repository (B): 65,789 Times-Reporter (New Philadelphia) Springfield News-Sun (K): 24,684 The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) OREGON Register-Guard (Eugene) (K): Mail Tribune (Medford) (K): 30,349 The Oregonian of Portland (K) Salem Statesman-Journal (K) Yamhill Valley News-Register PENNSYLVANIA The Daily Item of Sunbury The Express-Times (Easton) (B): 44,561 Philadelphia Inquirer (K): Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (K): 214,374 TENNESSEE Chattanooga Times (K): 71,716 The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) (K): 146,961 The (Nashville) Tennessean (K): 161,131 TEXAS Austin American-Statesman (B) Bryan/College Station Eagle Houston Chronicle (B) The Lufkin Daily News (K): 12,225 UTAH The Salt Lake Tribune (B): VERMONT Burlington Free Press (K) VIRGINIA Falls Church News-Press (K): 30,500 WASHINGTON The Columbian (B): 44,623 The Olympian (K) Seattle Post-Intelligencer (K): 129,563 The Seattle Times (K): 220,883 Tri-City Herald (K) Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Yakima Herald-Republic (B) WEST VIRGINIA The Charleston Gazette (K): 48,061 Huntington Herald-Dispatch (K) WISCONSIN The Capital Times (Madison) (K): 16,335 Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) (B): 87,930 JOHN McCAIN 38 newspapers total 3.7 million daily circulation CALIFORNIA Bakersfield Californian (B) Napa Valley Register: 16,283 Riverside Press-Enterprise (B) The San Francisco Examiner (B): 80,000 San Diego Union-Tribune (B) COLORADO Mountain Valley News (Cedaredge): 2,000 The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction) (B): 31,349 The Pueblo Chieftain (B): 49,169 Daily Times-Call (Longmont) (B) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The Washington DC Examiner (N/A): 100,073 FLORIDA Bradenton Herald Tampa Tribune MARYLAND The Baltimore Examiner (N/A): 50,000 MASSACHUSETTS Boston Herald (B): 182,350 The (Lowell) Sun (B): 44,439 MINNESOTA The Journal (New Ulm): MISSISSIPPI Jackson Sun (B) NEW HAMPSHIRE Foster’s Daily Democrat (B): 22,547 Union Leader (Manchester) (B): 51,782 NEVADA Las Vegas Review (B) NEW YORK New York Post (B): 702,488 NORTH DAKOTA Fargo Forum (B) OHIO Columbus Dispatch (B) The (Findlay) Courier (B): 22,319 OREGON Bend Bulletin (B) TENNESSEE Leaf-Chronicle of Clarksville (B) The Jackson Sun (B) TEXAS Amarillo Globe-News (B): 44,764 Beaumont Enterprise Corpus Christi Caller-Times Dallas Morning News (B): The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal San Antonio Express-News Wharton Journal Spectator Wichita Falls Times Record VIRGINIA The Daily Press (Hampton Roads) (K) The Winchester Star WASHINGTON (Spokane) Spokesman-Review (B): 89,779 WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling News-Register (B): 12,821

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10-20-2008, 11:59 AM	#2
Paladin Ring of Famer Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 9,150	Newspaper endorsements really don't matter a whole lot. But there are some nutjobs out there who will folow the "recommendations" religiously. Oh, wait. That's the Evangelists. Okay, follow them........somewhat.

10-20-2008, 12:01 PM	#3
Hotrod Self Appointed Expert aka Dortoh Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 25,136 Adopt-a-Bronco: Miss I	FWIW I am endorsing the only man in the race who has truely fought for you. Or something like that. I see the Gunny paper is on the wrong side of the aisle. Trying to get the hippys on the north end of the valley to buy subscriptions is my guess.