NEW YORK The Obama-Biden ticket maintains its strong lead in the race for newspaper endorsements, picking up 24 more papers in the past day, including the giant Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune on Friday afternoon (see separate story), and the Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Portland's The Oregonian, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Salt Lake Tribune, Kansas City Star, Southwest News-Herald (Ill.) and Chicago Sun-Times late Friday or Saturday.
This brings his lead over McCain-Palin by this measure of daily papers to well over 3-1, at 64-18, including most of the major papers that have decided so far. In contrast, John Kerry barely edged George W. Bush in endorsements in 2004, by about 213 to 205.
McCain did pick up a major endorsement in swing state Florida (where Obama just gained the Miami Herald), earning the support of the Tampa Tribune. Also he gained another GOP-leaning paper, the Dallas Morning News.
Note: We are updating this story and list all day Saturday so return for additions.
The readership of the newspapers backing Obama now stands at well over 8 million. He had also gained two biggies on Thursday in The Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle.
The Columbian in Washington was an unexpected win for Obama, since the newspaper endorsed President Bush in the 2004 election. The Salt Lake Tribune and the Las Cruces (N.M.) Sun-News also had backed Bush in 2004 but now switched to the Democrat. Obama has now picked up at least 11 "flip-flops" of this type, McCain none.
The Kansas City Star declared: "Despite his age and previous health problems, McCain chose a vice presidential candidate who is so clearly unqualified for high office that the thought of her stepping into the presidency is frightening. That irresponsible decision casts serious doubt on McCain’s judgment at this point in his political career. And over the past eight years, Americans have come to know, all too well, the high price of carelessness and ineptitude in the White House."
The Tampa Tribune declared for McCain: "The direction of the nation is at stake in this election. Hard economic times, a disappointing Republican administration and the seductive promises of a master orator are pushing America toward a European-style social democracy. If you don't want that to happen, vote for Republican Sen. John McCain....The Tribune encourages voters to vote what they believe, not what they wish were true. The nation needs a stable leader in these unpredictable times."
The Dallas paper hailed McCain as a "progressive conservative" and said the times were too tough to trust the reins of power to Obama and a Democratic Congress.
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http://therecord.barackobama.com/?p=2908Obama 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. As always, we include in brackets who the paper went with in 2004 with B=Bush and K=Kerry.
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BARACK OBAMA
64 newspapers total
Well over 8 million circulation (we are still counting)
ARKANSAS
Arkansas Times (K): 34,000
CALIFORNIA
The Argus (Fremont) (K): 26,749
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek) (K): 183,086
Daily Review (Hayward) (K): 30,704
The Fresno Bee (K): 150,334
La Opinion (Los Angeles) (K): 114,892
Los Angeles Times (N/A): 773,884
The Modesto Bee (K): 78,001
The Monterey County Herald (K): 28,933
Oakland Tribune (K): 96,535
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
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
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The Washington Post (K): 673,180
FLORIDA
Miami Herald (K):
GEORGIA
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (K)
HAWAII
Honolulu Star-Bulletin (K): 64,305
ILLINOIS
Chicago Tribune (B): 541,663
Chicago Sun-Times (K):
Southwest News-Herald (K)
IOWA
The Storm Lake Times (K): 3,200
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
The Muskegon Chronicle (K): 41,114
MISSOURI
Kansas City Star
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (K): 255,057
NEW MEXICO
Las Cruces Sun-News (B)
Santa Fe New Mexican (K): 25,249
NEW YORK
el Dario La Prensa (): 53,856
NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville Citizen-Times (K): 50,160
OHIO
The (Toledo) Blade (K): 119,901
Dayton Daily News (K): 116,690
The (Canton) Repository (B): 65,789
Springfield News-Sun (K): 24,684
OREGON
Mail Tribune (Medford) (K): 30,349
The Oregonian of Portland (K)
PENNSYLVANIA
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
The Lufkin Daily News (K): 12,225
UTAH
The Salt Lake Tribune (B):
VIRGINIA
Falls Church News-Press (K): 30,500
WASHINGTON
The Columbian (B): 44,623
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (K): 129,563
The Seattle Times (K): 220,883
WEST VIRGINIA
The Charleston Gazette (K): 48,061
WISCONSIN
The Capital Times (Madison) (K): 16,335
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) (B): 87,930
JOHN McCAIN
18 newspapers total
About 1.7 million daily circulation
CALIFORNIA
Napa Valley Register: 16,283
The San Francisco Examiner (B): 80,000
COLORADO
Mountain Valley News (Cedaredge): 2,000
The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction) (B): 31,349
The Pueblo Chieftain (B): 49,169
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The Washington DC Examiner (N/A): 100,073
FLORIDA
Tampa Tribune
MARYLAND
The Baltimore Examiner (N/A): 50,000
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Herald (B): 182,350
The (Lowell) Sun (B): 44,439
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Foster’s Daily Democrat (B): 22,547
Union Leader (Manchester) (B): 51,782
NEW YORK
New York Post (B): 702,488
OHIO
The (Findlay) Courier (B): 22,319
TEXAS
Amarillo Globe-News (B): 44,764
Dallas Morning News (B):
WASHINGTON
(Spokane) Spokesman-Review (B): 89,779
WEST VIRGINIA
Wheeling News-Register (B): 12,821
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