Economist Magazine endorses Barack Obama

Economist was a strong endorsement for Obama. You can view a list of all Obama's endorsements by clicking here. Below is also a tally of all of the newspapers that have supported either Obama or McCain. Obama has a 273-142 lead in Newspaper endorsements. The Economist was impressive.
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It's time

Oct 30th 2008
From The Economist print edition

America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world

IT IS impossible to forecast how important any presidency will be. Back in 2000 America stood tall as the undisputed superpower, at peace with a generally admiring world. The main argument was over what to do with the federal government’s huge budget surplus. Nobody foresaw the seismic events of the next eight years. When Americans go to the polls next week the mood will be very different. The United States is unhappy, divided and foundering both at home and abroad. Its self-belief and values are under attack.

For all the shortcomings of the campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama offer hope of national redemption. Now America has to choose between them. The Economist does not have a vote, but if it did, it would cast it for Mr Obama. We do so wholeheartedly: the Democratic candidate has clearly shown that he offers the better chance of restoring America’s self-confidence. But we acknowledge it is a gamble. Given Mr Obama’s inexperience, the lack of clarity about some of his beliefs and the prospect of a stridently Democratic Congress, voting for him is a risk. Yet it is one America should take, given the steep road ahead.

Thinking about 2009 and 2017

The immediate focus, which has dominated the campaign, looks daunting enough: repairing America’s economy and its international reputation. The financial crisis is far from finished. The United States is at the start of a painful recession. Some form of further fiscal stimulus is needed, though estimates of the budget deficit next year already spiral above $1 trillion. Some 50m Americans have negligible health-care cover. Abroad, even though troops are dying in two countries, the cack-handed way in which George Bush has prosecuted his war on terror has left America less feared by its enemies and less admired by its friends than it once was.

Yet there are also longer-term challenges, worth stressing if only because they have been so ignored on the campaign. Jump forward to 2017, when the next president will hope to relinquish office. A combination of demography and the rising costs of America’s huge entitlement programmes—Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—will be starting to bankrupt the country. Abroad a greater task is already evident: welding the new emerging powers to the West. That is not just a matter of handling the rise of India and China, drawing them into global efforts, such as curbs on climate change; it means reselling economic and political freedom to a world that too quickly associates American capitalism with Lehman Brothers and American justice with Guantánamo Bay. This will take patience, fortitude, salesmanship and strategy.

At the beginning of this election year, there were strong arguments against putting another Republican in the White House. A spell in opposition seemed apt punishment for the incompetence, cronyism and extremism of the Bush presidency. Conservative America also needs to recover its vim. Somehow Ronald Reagan’s party of western individualism and limited government has ended up not just increasing the size of the state but turning it into a tool of southern-fried moralism.

The selection of Mr McCain as the Republicans’ candidate was a powerful reason to reconsider. Mr McCain has his faults: he is an instinctive politician, quick to judge and with a sharp temper. And his age has long been a concern (how many global companies in distress would bring in a new 72-year-old boss?). Yet he has bravely taken unpopular positions—for free trade, immigration reform, the surge in Iraq, tackling climate change and campaign-finance reform. A western Republican in the Reagan mould, he has a long record of working with both Democrats and America’s allies.

If only the real John McCain had been running

That, however, was Senator McCain; the Candidate McCain of the past six months has too often seemed the victim of political sorcery, his good features magically inverted, his bad ones exaggerated. The fiscal conservative who once tackled Mr Bush over his unaffordable tax cuts now proposes not just to keep the cuts, but to deepen them. The man who denounced the religious right as “agents of intolerance” now embraces theocratic culture warriors. The campaigner against ethanol subsidies (who had a better record on global warming than most Democrats) came out in favour of a petrol-tax holiday. It has not all disappeared: his support for free trade has never wavered. Yet rather than heading towards the centre after he won the nomination, Mr McCain moved to the right.

Meanwhile his temperament, always perhaps his weak spot, has been found wanting. Sometimes the seat-of-the-pants method still works: his gut reaction over Georgia—to warn Russia off immediately—was the right one. Yet on the great issue of the campaign, the financial crisis, he has seemed all at sea, emitting panic and indecision. Mr McCain has never been particularly interested in economics, but, unlike Mr Obama, he has made little effort to catch up or to bring in good advisers (Doug Holtz-Eakin being the impressive exception).

The choice of Sarah Palin epitomised the sloppiness. It is not just that she is an unconvincing stand-in, nor even that she seems to have been chosen partly for her views on divisive social issues, notably abortion. Mr McCain made his most important appointment having met her just twice.

Ironically, given that he first won over so many independents by speaking his mind, the case for Mr McCain comes down to a piece of artifice: vote for him on the assumption that he does not believe a word of what he has been saying. Once he reaches the White House, runs this argument, he will put Mrs Palin back in her box, throw away his unrealistic tax plan and begin negotiations with the Democratic Congress. That is plausible; but it is a long way from the convincing case that Mr McCain could have made. Had he become president in 2000 instead of Mr Bush, the world might have had fewer problems. But this time it is beset by problems, and Mr McCain has not proved that he knows how to deal with them.

Is Mr Obama any better? Most of the hoopla about him has been about what he is, rather than what he would do. His identity is not as irrelevant as it sounds. Merely by becoming president, he would dispel many of the myths built up about America: it would be far harder for the spreaders of hate in the Islamic world to denounce the Great Satan if it were led by a black man whose middle name is Hussein; and far harder for autocrats around the world to claim that American democracy is a sham. America’s allies would rally to him: the global electoral college on our website shows a landslide in his favour. At home he would salve, if not close, the ugly racial wound left by America’s history and lessen the tendency of American blacks to blame all their problems on racism.

So Mr Obama’s star quality will be useful to him as president. But that alone is not enough to earn him the job. Charisma will not fix Medicare nor deal with Iran. Can he govern well? Two doubts present themselves: his lack of executive experience; and the suspicion that he is too far to the left.

There is no getting around the fact that Mr Obama’s résumé is thin for the world’s biggest job. But the exceptionally assured way in which he has run his campaign is a considerable comfort. It is not just that he has more than held his own against Mr McCain in the debates. A man who started with no money and few supporters has out-thought, out-organised and outfought the two mightiest machines in American politics—the Clintons and the conservative right.

Political fire, far from rattling Mr Obama, seems to bring out the best in him: the furore about his (admittedly ghastly) preacher prompted one of the most thoughtful speeches of the campaign. On the financial crisis his performance has been as assured as Mr McCain’s has been febrile. He seems a quick learner and has built up an impressive team of advisers, drawing in seasoned hands like Paul Volcker, Robert Rubin and Larry Summers. Of course, Mr Obama will make mistakes; but this is a man who listens, learns and manages well.

It is hard too nowadays to depict him as soft when it comes to dealing with America’s enemies. Part of Mr Obama’s original appeal to the Democratic left was his keenness to get American troops out of Iraq; but since the primaries he has moved to the centre, pragmatically saying the troops will leave only when the conditions are right. His determination to focus American power on Afghanistan, Pakistan and proliferation was prescient. He is keener to talk to Iran than Mr McCain is— but that makes sense, providing certain conditions are met.

Our main doubts about Mr Obama have to do with the damage a muddle-headed Democratic Congress might try to do to the economy. Despite the protectionist rhetoric that still sometimes seeps into his speeches, Mr Obama would not sponsor a China-bashing bill. But what happens if one appears out of Congress? Worryingly, he has a poor record of defying his party’s baronies, especially the unions. His advisers insist that Mr Obama is too clever to usher in a new age of over-regulation, that he will stop such nonsense getting out of Congress, that he is a political chameleon who would move to the centre in Washington. But the risk remains that on economic matters the centre that Mr Obama moves to would be that of his party, not that of the country as a whole.

He has earned it

So Mr Obama in that respect is a gamble. But the same goes for Mr McCain on at least as many counts, not least the possibility of President Palin. And this cannot be another election where the choice is based merely on fear. In terms of painting a brighter future for America and the world, Mr Obama has produced the more compelling and detailed portrait. He has campaigned with more style, intelligence and discipline than his opponent. Whether he can fulfil his immense potential remains to be seen. But Mr Obama deserves the presidency.

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MONDAY Tally Of Newspaper Endorsements -- Obama In Landslide, at 273-142

By Greg Mitchell and Dexter Hill Published: November 03, 2008 12:25 PM ET Monday NEW YORK (Updated Monday) We're into election eve! And the Obama-Biden ticket maintains its strong lead in the race for daily newspaper endorsements. The Democratic team now leads by 273 to 142, a nearly 2-1 margin and an even wider spread in the circulation of those papers -- see full tally below as of today. The circulation of the Obama-backing papers stands at over 21 million, compared with McCain's 7 million. McCain has slightly closed the gap with editorials from smaller papers arriving this past weekend. But he lost Newsday in New York and the Arizona Daily Star in his home state. 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 of dailies in 2004 by 213 to 205. We've greatly added below to the separate lopsided lists of weekly and college papers. They are not counted in the tally of dailies. Well over 50 papers have now switched to Obama from Bush in 2004, with less than half a dozen flipping to McCain. The latest: the daily in Dick Cheney's hometown of Casper, Wyoming and the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi. In addition, several top papers that went for Bush in 2004 have now chosen not to endorse this year, the latest being the Indianapolis Star in key swing state Indiana. The Chicago Tribune endorsed Obama--the first Democrat that it has backed in its long history. Three of the top five dailies in deep red state Texas switched from Bush to Obama this time. Please send any endorsements you see or make (that are not listed below) to: gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com. For more coverage on the media and the campaign, go to our new blog: The E&P Pub As always, we include in brackets below who the paper went with in 2004 with B=Bush and K=Kerry. The >>> signals the latest additions. (B) = Bush; (K) = Kerry; (N) = No Endorsement in 2004 BARACK OBAMA 273 newspapers total More than 22,000,000 circulation total ALABAMA (7) >>> The Anniston Star (K) >>> The Daily Home (Talladega) >>> The Decatur Daily Montgomery Advertiser (K): 45,060 >>> The Selma Times-Journal TimesDaily (Florence): 29,200 The Tuscaloosa News (K): 32,768 ALASKA (1) Anchorage Daily News (K): 62,893 ARIZONA (1) >>>Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) (K) ARKANSAS (1) >>> Benton County Daily Record (Bentonville) CALIFORNIA (30) The Argus (Fremont) (K): 26,749 Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek) (K): 183,086 Daily Breeze (Torrance) (B): 66,599 The Daily Democrat (Woodland): 8,883 Daily News (Los Angeles) (K): 137,344 The Daily Review (Hayward) (K): 30,704 The Fresno Bee (K): 150,334 Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario) (B): 53,903 La Opinion (Los Angeles) (K): 114,892 Los Angeles Times (N): 773,884 Marin Independent-Journal (K): 31,909 Merced Sun-Star (K): 15,015 The Modesto Bee (K): 78,001 The Monterey County Herald (K): 28,933 The Oakland Tribune (K): 96,535 Pasadena Star-News (B): 27,894 The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa): 78,022 Press-Telegram (Long Beach) (B): 85,595 The Reporter (Vacaville) (B): 17,751 San Gabriel Valley Tribune (B): 40,051 San Mateo Daily Journal: 14,800 Tahoe Daily Tribune: 7,723 The Record (Stockton) (B): 57,486 The Sacramento Bee (K): 288,755 San Bernardino County 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 (Pleasanton) (B): 29,759 COLORADO (9) Aspen Daily News (K): 12,500 >>> The Aspen Times Aurora Sentinel (K): 46,000 Cortez Journal (K): 6,700 Daily Camera (Boulder) (K): 28,994 The Denver Post (B): 225,193 Durango Herald (K): 8,870 Fort Collins Coloradoan (K): 26,312 Vail Daily: 10,525 CONNECTICUT (5) The Day (New London) (K): 34,730 The Hartford Courant (B): 168,158 New Haven Register (B): 72,613 >>> The News-Times (Danbury) Norwich Bulletin (K): 22,121 DELAWARE (1) The News Journal (Wilmington) (K): 110,171 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (1) The Washington Post (K): 673,180 FLORIDA (12) Daytona Beach News-Journal (K): 99,627 Florida Today (Melbourne) (K): 79,499 The Gainesville Sun (K): 44,658 The Ledger (Lakeland) (B): 65,948 The Miami Herald (K): 240,223 Naples Daily-News (B): 66,272 Orlando Sentinel (K): 227,593 The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach) (K): 164,474 Pensacola News Journal: 57,069 St. Petersburg Times (K): 316,007 Sarasota Herald-Tribune (K): 114,904 South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale) (K): 218,286 GEORGIA (3) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (K): 326,907 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (B): 42,830 The Macon Telegraph (K): 56,510 HAWAII (1) Honolulu Star-Bulletin (K): 64,305 IDAHO (1) The Idaho Statesman (Boise) (K): 61,927 ILLINOIS (8) Chicago Tribune (B): 541,663 Chicago Sun-Times (K): 312,274 Daily Herald (Arlington Heights) (K): 143,152 Herald & Review (Decatur) (B): 34,480 Lake County News-Sun (Waukegan) (B): 16,899 The Pantagraph (Bloomington-Normal) (B): 47,764 The Register-Mail (Galesburg): 13,344 Rockford Register Star (K): 55,913 INDIANA (5) >>> The Herald Bulletin (Anderson) Journal and Courier (Lafayette-West Lafayette) (K): 34,545 The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne) (K): 64,304 Palladium-Item (Richmond) (B): 15,453 The Star Press (Muncie): 31,512 IOWA (6) The Des Moines Register (K): 138,472 Globe-Gazette (Mason City)(B): 17,666 The Hawk Eye (Burlington) (K): 18,921 Iowa City Press-Citizen (K): 13,352 The Ottumwa Courier: 16,904 Quad-City Times (Davenport) (K): 51,890 KANSAS (2) The Hays Daily News: 12,414 The Hutchinson News (K): 31,019 KENTUCKY (3) The Ledger Independent (Maysville): 9,074 Lexington Herald-Leader (K):109,624 The Courier-Journal (Louisville) (K): 215,328 LOUISIANA (2) The Times (Shreveport): 52,267 The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (N): 179,834 MAINE (4) Bangor Daily News (K): 55,627 >>> Kennebec Journal (Augusta) (K) Portland Press Herald (K): 64,938 The Times-Record (Brunswick ) (K): 9,317 MARYLAND (3) >>> The Daily Times (Salisbury) >>> The Star-Democrat (Easton) (B) The Sun (Baltimore) (K): 232,360 MASSACHUSETTS (12) The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield) (K): 26,427 The Boston Globe (K): 350,605 Cape Cod Times (Hyannis) (B): 49,832 Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton): 18,001 >>> The Enterprise (Brockton) North Adams Transcript: 5,949 The Patriot Ledger The Recorder (Greenfield): 13,578 The Salem News: 29,125 >>> Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg) The Standard-Times (New Bedford) (K): 30,306 Telegram & Gazette (Worcester) (K): 81,437 MICHIGAN (11) The Bay City Times (K): 30,183 Battle Creek Enquirer (K): 20,854 The Daily Tribune (Royal Oak): 9,396 Detroit Free Press (K): 308,944 The Flint Journal (K): 76,288 The Lansing State Journal (K): 58,948 Livingston County Daily Press & Argus (Howell) (K): 13,131 The Muskegon Chronicle (K): 41,114 >>> Petoskey News-Review (K) The Saginaw News (K): 39,143 Traverse City Record-Eagle (K): 27,797 MINNESOTA (5) Albert Lea Tribune: 6,315 Post-Bulletin (Rochester): 44,631 St. Cloud Times (K): 25,868 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (K): 321,964 Winona Daily News MISSISSIPPI (2) >>> The Commercial Dispatch (Columbus) >>>Clarion-Ledger (Jackson) MISSOURI (5) Columbia Daily Tribune (K): 18,131 The Joplin Globe (B): 26,700 The Kansas City Star (K): 252,785 St. Louis Post-Dispatch (K): 255,057 >>> West Plains Daily Quill (K) MONTANA (3) Billings Gazette (K): 45,530 >>> Independent Record (Helena) >>> The Montana Standard (Butte) NEVADA (2) Las Vegas Sun (K): 174,341 Reno Gazette-Journal (K): 57,423 NEW HAMPSHIRE (5) Concord Monitor (K): 19,885 The Conway Daily Sun (Conway-North Conway)(N): 16,100 The Keene Sentinel (K): 12,119 Nashua Telegraph (K): 24,272 Portsmouth Herald (K): 11,658 NEW JERSEY (10) Asbury Park Press (Neptune-Asbury Park) (B): 140,882 >>> Courier News (Bridgewater) Courier-Post (Camden-Cherry Hill): 66,617 >>> Daily Record (Parsippany) The Gloucester County Times (Woodbury) (K): 23,189 Home News Tribune (East Brunswick): 49,076 The New Jersey Herald (Newton) (B): 14,660 The Record (Hackensack) (K): 163,329 The Star-Ledger (Newark) (K): 345,130 The Times (Trenton) (K): 54,745 NEW MEXICO (3) Las Cruces Sun-News (B): 21,341 The Daily Times (Farmington) (B): 17,485 The Santa Fe New Mexican (K): 25,249 NEW YORK (16) The Buffalo News (K): 178,365 Daily Freeman (Kingston) (N): 17,909 Daily News (New York City) (B): 703,137 The Daily Star (Oneonta) (K): 14,391 el Diario (K): 53,856 Hoy (New York City): 35,410 The Journal-News (White Plains) (K): 108,092 >>> Niagara Gazette (Niagara Falls) >>> Union-Sun & Journal (Lockport) >>>Newsday (Melville) The New York Times (K): 1,077,256 The Post-Standard (Syracuse): 110,061 The Post-Star (Glens Falls) (K): 30,265 Poughkeepsie Journal (B): 37,265 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (K): 145,913 The Times Herald-Record (Middletown): 75,745 Times Union (Albany) (K): 89,256 NORTH CAROLINA (6) The Asheville Citizen-Times (K): 50,160 The Charlotte Observer (K): 210,616 The Daily Reflector (Greenville) (K): 21,703 The Herald-Sun (Durham) (N): 32,845 The News & Observer (Raleigh) (K): 176,083 Star-News (Wilmington) (K): 47,620 OHIO (13) Akron Beacon Journal (K): 119,929 The Blade (Toledo) (K): 119,901 Dayton Daily News (K): 116,690 >>> The Independent (Massillon) JournalNews (Hamilton) (B): 19,432 Middletown Journal: 17,285 News Journal (Mansfield) (B): 28,272 Telegraph-Forum (Bucyrus): 5,969 The Repository (Canton) (B): 65,789 The Times-Reporter (Dover-New Philadelphia) (B): 22,428 Springfield News-Sun (K): 24,684 The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) (N): 330,280 Vindicator (Youngstown) (B): 56,412 OKLAHOMA (2) Muskogee Daily Phoenix & Times-Democrat (K): 14,816 The Norman Transcript: 12,921 OREGON (8) The Ashland Daily Tidings: 5,010 Corvallis Gazette-Times: 12,092 East Oregonian (Pendleton) (K): 9,071 The Daily Astorian (Astoria) (K): 8,263 Mail Tribune (Medford) (K): 30,349 The Oregonian (Portland) (K): 304,399 The Register-Guard (Eugene) (K): 67,400 Statesman Journal (Salem) (K): 47,152 PENNSYLVANIA (21) Beaver County Times (K): 38,654 >>> The Courier-Express (Du Bois) The Daily Item (Sunbury) (N): 24,879 The Daily Review (Towanda): 7,900 The Delaware County Daily Times (Primos-Upper Darby): 42,879 Erie Times-News (B): 55,397 The Express-Times (Easton) (B): 44,561 >>> The Herald (Sharon) Herald-Standard (Uniontown) (K): 24,341 Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster): 46,357 The Mercury (Pottstown): 21,186 >>> New Castle News Observer-Reporter (Washington) (K): 31,755 The Patriot-News (Harrisburg): 95,588 The Philadelphia Daily News: 107,269 The Philadelphia Inquirer (K): 334,150 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (K): 214,374 Pocono Record (Stroudsburg): 18,276 Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre) (K): 38,229 The Times-Tribune (Scranton): 52,711 York Daily Record (B): 47,969 RHODE ISLAND (1) The Providence Journal (B): 139,055 TENNESSEE (3) Chattanooga Times (K): 71,716 The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) (K): 146,961 The Tennessean (Nashville) (K): 161,131 TEXAS (8) Austin American-Statesman (B): 170,309 The Eagle (Bryan-College Station): 21,654 Fort Worth Star-Telegram (B): 207,045 Houston Chronicle (B): 494,131 Longview News-Journal (K): 27,590 The Lufkin Daily News (K): 12,225 >>> Marshall News Messenger San Angelo Standard-Times: 24,919 UTAH (1) The Salt Lake Tribune (B): 121,699 VERMONT (4) Bennington Banner (K): 6,502 Brattleboro Reformer (K): 8,814 The Burlington Free Press (K): 41,901 Valley News (White River Junction) (K): 16,430 VIRGINIA (1) The News Leader (Staunton) (B): 17,238 WASHINGTON (11) The Columbian (Vancouver) (B): 44,623 >>> The Daily World (Aberdeen) The News Tribune (Tacoma) (K): 111,778 The Olympian (Olympia) (K): 30,755 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (K): 129,563 The Seattle Times (K): 220,883 The Sun (Bremerton): 28,792 Tri-City Herald (Pasco-Kennewick-Richland) (K): 40,830 Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (K): 13,624 The Wenatchee World: 22,579 Yakima Herald-Republic (B): 38,077 WEST VIRGINIA (3) Charleston Gazette (K): 48,061 The Herald-Dispatch (Huntington) (K): 27,463 Times West Virginian (Fairmont): 10,415 WISCONSIN (9) The Capital Times (Madison) (K): 16,335 The Chippewa Herald (Chippewa Falls) (B): 6,720 Kenosha News (K): 24,535 La Crosse Tribune (K): 31,759 >>> Marshfield News-Herald (11,332) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (K): 217,755 Stevens Point Journal: 11,234 The Wausau Daily Herald (K): 20,828 Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) (B): 87,930 JOHN McCAIN 142 newspapers total More than 7,543,919 circulation total ALABAMA (6) The Birmingham News (B): 140,438 >>> Clanton Advertiser >>> Demopolis Times >>> The Dothan Eagle >>> The Gadsden Times Press-Register (Mobile) (B): 99,433 ALASKA (1) >>> Juneau Empire ARIZONA (2) The Arizona Republic (Phoenix) (B): 413,332 The Daily Courier (Prescott): 17,800 ARKANSAS (2) >>> Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock) Southwest Times Record (Fort Smith) (B): 40,231 CALIFORNIA (11) The Bakersfield Californian (B) 59,433 >>> Chico Enterprise-Record >>> The Daily Independent (Ridgecrest) The Desert Sun (Palm Springs-Palm Desert) (B): 53,091 >>> The Eureka Reporter The Examiner (San Francisco) (B): 80,000 Napa Valley Register (B): 16,283 North County Times (Escondido-Oceanside): 88,786 The Press-Enterprise (Riverside) (B): 164,189 The San Diego Union-Tribune (B): 288,669 >>> Times-Herald (Vallejo) COLORADO (3) The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction) (B): 31,349 The Pueblo Chieftain (B): 49,169 Daily Times-Call (Longmont) (B): 21,127 CONNECTICUT (3) Connecticut Post (Bridgeport) (B): 76,014 The Register Citizen (Torrington) (B): 8,217 >>> Rebuplican-American (Waterbury) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (2) The Washington Examiner (N): 100,073 The Washinton Times (B): 93,763 FLORIDA (4) The Bradenton Herald (K): 48,618 Cape Coral Daily Breeze: 2,015 Palatka Daily News: 11,000 The Tampa Tribune: 220,522 GEORGIA (2) The Augusta Chronicle (B): 68,434 Savannah Morning News (B): 47,709 IDAHO (1) The Times-News (Twin Falls) (B): 20,325 ILLINOIS (4) Kane County Chronicle (St. Charles): 12,564 Morris Daily Herald (Morris): 7,258 The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana) (B): 42,302 Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake) (B): 36,594 INDIANA (1) >>> The Times (Munster) IOWA (4) >>> The Gazette (Cedar Rapids – Marion) The Messenger (Fort Dodge) (B): 16,355 Times-Republican (Marshalltown): 9,349 Sioux City Journal (B): 41,096 KANSAS (1) Lawrence Journal-World: 18,946 KENTUCKY (3) >>> The Advocate-Messenger (Danville) >>> The Daily Independent (Ashland) Daily News (Bowling Green) (B): 21,240 MAINE (1) Sun Journal (Lewiston): (B): 34,035 MARYLAND (1) The Baltimore Examiner (N): 50,000 MASSACHUSETTS (3) Boston Herald (B): 182,350 The Eagle-Tribune (Lawrence) (B): 46,281 The Sun (Lowell) (B): 44,439 MICHIGAN (4) The Detroit News: 188,171 The Grand Rapids Press (B): 128,930 Jackson Citizen Patriot (B): 30,825 >>> The Macomb Daily (Mount Clemens) The Oakland Press (Pontiac) (B): 66,422 MINNESOTA (6) The Journal (New Ulm) (B): 7,920 The Daily Globe (Worthington): 9,109 The Daily Journal (International Falls): 3,703 >>> Duluth News Tribune The Pioneer (Bemidji) (B): 9,018 Republican Eagle (Red Wing): 6,837 MISSOURI (1) The Sunday News Tribune (Jefferson City): 17,890 NEBRASKA (4) Lincoln Journal Star (B): 78,350 McCook Daily Gazette: 5,903 Norfolk Daily News: 16,492 Omaha World-Herald (B): 178,545 NEVADA (2) Elko Daily Free Press (B): 8,485 Las Vegas Review-Journal (B): 174,341 NEW HAMPSHIRE (3) Eagle Times (Claremont): 7,903 Foster’s Daily Democrat (Dover) (B): 22,547 New Hampshire Union Leader (Manchester) (B): 51,782 NEW MEXICO (3) >>> Albuquerque Journal Roswell Daily Record: 11,700 >>> Silver City Daily Press & Independent NEW YORK (1) New York Post (B): 702,488 NORTH CAROLINA (2) >>> The Hickory Daily Record >>> Winston-Salem Journal NORTH DAKOTA (3) >>> The Bismarck Tribune The Forum (Fargo) (B): 48,303 >>> Minot Daily News OHIO (8) >>> The Advertiser-Tribune (Tiffin) The Cincinnati Enquirer (B): 212,369 The Columbus Dispatch (B): 199,524 The Courier (Findlay) (B): 22,319 The Marietta Times: 10,645 The Morning Journal (Lorain): 25,334 The News-Herald (Lake County-Willoughby) (B): 36,948 The Tribune Chronicle (Warren): 29,364 OKLAHOMA (4) Enid News & Eagle (B): 17,323 Examiner-Enterprise (Bartlesville): 18,400 The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) (B): 201,771 >>> Tulsa World OREGON (4) Albany Democrat-Herald: 16,891 Baker City Herald: 3,151 The Bulletin (Bend) (B): 32,455 Daily Courier (Grants Pass) (B): 16,178 PENNSYLVANIA (6) Lancaster New Era: 40,068 Public Opinion (Chambersburg) (N): 16,679 The Sentinel (Lewistown) (B): 11,863 Times-Observer (Warren): 10,313 The Tribune-Democrat (Johnstown): 37,673 >>> Tribune-Review (Greensburg) SOUTH CAROLINA (4) The Greenville News (B): 81,010 Herald-Journal (Spartanburg) (B): 42,380 >>> The Post and Courier The State (Columbia) (B): 101,010 SOUTH DAKOTA (2) Argus Leader (Sioux Falls) (B): 48,960 The Daily Republic (Mitchell) (B): 12,742 TENNESSEE (4) Chattanooga Free Press (B): 71,716 The Jackson Sun (K): 32,121 Knoxville News Sentinel (B): 117,262 The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville) (B): 20,354 TEXAS (12) Amarillo Globe-News (B): 44,764 The Beaumont Enterprise (B): 45,684 Corpus Christi Caller-Times (K): 53,368 The Dallas Morning News (B): 368,313 The Galveston County Daily News: 26,933 Kerrville Daily Times: 8,971 Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (B): 49,094 New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung: 8,599 >>> The Paris News San Antonio Express-News (B): 225,447 Tyler Morning Telegraph: 35,598 Wichita Falls Times Record News (N): 28,888 VIRGINIA (10) Bristol Herald-Courier (B): 38,068 >>> Culpeper Star-Exponent Danville Register & Bee (B): 19,830 Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg): 30,908 Daily Press (Newport News-Hampton) (K): 91,508 >>> The Daily Progress (Charlottesville) The News & Advance (Lynchburg) (B): 33,931 The News-Virginian (Waynesboro): 7,478 Richmond Times-Dispatch (B): 175,265 The Winchester Star (B): 20,218 WASHINGTON (2) The Chronicle (Centralia-Chehalis): 13,912 The Spokesman-Review (Spokane) (B): 89,779 WEST VIRGINIA (2) >>> The Intelligencer (Wheeling) Wheeling News-Register (B): 12,821 WISCONSIN (2) Beloit Daily News (B): 14,193 Green Bay Press-Gazette: 53,600 WEEKLIES & OTHER BARACK OBAMA (91) Alibi (Albuquerque) Arkansas Times (Little Rock) Athens News (Ohio) Austin Chronicle Baltimore City Paper Boston Phoenix Boulder Weekly C-Ville Weekly (Charlottesville, VA) Charleston City Paper Chico News & Review City Pulse (Lansing) The Colorado Daily Colorado Springs Independent Cincinnati CityBeat City Newspaper (Rochester, NY) The Columbia Independent (New York) Creative Loafing (Atlanta) Creative Loafing (Charlotte) Creative Loafing (Sarasota) Creative Loafing (Tampa) The Economist EPG News Eugene Weekly Falls Church News-Press (Virginia) Financial Times (daily) Gunnison Country Times (Colorado) Hunterdon Review (Clinton, NJ) Independent Weekly (North Carolina) Indian Country Today Jackson Free Press (Mississippi) Las Vegas CityLife Las Vegas Weekly Long Island Press Los Angeles CityBeat >>> Lynden Tribune (Washington) The Mac Weekly (Macalester College) Memphis Flyer Metro Pulse Metro Santa Cruz Metro Silicon Valley Metro Times (Detroit) Metroland (Albany) Michigan Chronicle (Detroit) Monterey County Weekly (Seaside, CA) Newcity (Chicago) News-Herald (Southgate, MI) >>> The Newtown Bee (Connecticut) New York Observer News-Register (McMinnville, OR) North Bay Bohemian Orlando Weekly Ouray County Plaindealer (Colorado) The Pacific Northwest Inlander (Spokane, WA) Palo Alto Weekly Pasadena Weekly The Portland Mercury The Portland Observer (Oregon) Portland Phoenix Providence Phoenix >>> Queens Tribune (New York) Random Lengths News Reno News & Review Roxbury Register (New Jersey) San Diego CityBeat San Francisco Bay Guardian Santa Barbara Independent (California) Santa Monica Mirror (California) Santa Fe Reporter >>> The Savannah Tribune (Georgia) Scene (Cleveland) Shepherd Express (Milwaukee) The Source Weekly (Bend, OR) >>> South Florida Times (Fort Lauderdale) Southtown Star (Chicago) Southwest News-Herald (Chicago) >>> The St. Louis American The Sylva Herald & Ruralite The Storm Lake Times (Iowa) The Stranger (Seattle) The Taos News (New Mexico) The Tennessee Tribune (Nashville) Tideland News (Swansboro, NC) Tuscon Weekly (Arizona) The Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg) Windsor Beacon (Colorado) Metro Santa Cruz (California) Ventura County Reporter >>> Weston Forum (Connecticut) >>> The Westside Gazette (Fort Lauderdale, FL) Willamette Week (Portland, OR) Worcester Magazine Yamhill Valley News-Register (McMinnville, OR) (B) JOHN McCAIN (21) Bureau County Republican (Illinois) Coweta American (Oklahoma) The Culpeper Times (Virginia) >>> Eufaula Tribune (Alabama) The Fauquier Times-Democrat (Virginia) The Frontiersman (Alaska) The Garden City News (New York) Hillsboro Argus (Oregon) The Hudson Star-Observer (Wisconsin) >>> The Jackson Herald Mountain Valley News (Colorado) Lampasas Dispatch Record (Texas) Paradise Post (California) Rappahannock News (Virginia) >>> The Redding Pilot (Connecticut) River Falls Journal (Wisconsin) >>> The Sand Mountain Reporter The Star (Wisconsin) >>> The Wetumpka Herald (Alabama) Wharton Journal-Spectator (Texas) Woodburn Independent (Oregon) COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS BARACK OBAMA (66) Advance-Titan (University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh) The Amherst Student (Amherst College) Arizona Daily Wildcat (University of Arizona) Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin – Madison) The Bates Student 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El Vaquero (Glendale Community College) The Et Cetera (Eastfield College) The Flat Hat (College of William & Mary) The Independent Collegian (University of Toledo) Indiana Daily Student (Indiana University) Iowa State Daily (Iowa State University) The Justice (Brandeis University) The Lamron (SUNY – Geneseo) The Louisville Cardinal (University of Louisville) Mace and Crown (Old Dominion University The Mac Weekly (Macalester College) The Maneater (University of Missouri) The Middlebury Campus (Middlebury College) The Miami Student (Miami University) The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan) The Michigan Journal (University of Michigan – Dearborn) Minnesota Daily (University of Minnesota) >>> The Mirror (Fairfield University) New University (UC – Irvine) Northern Star (Northern Illinois University) Oklahoma Daily (University of Oklahoma) The Optimist (Abeline Christian University) The Orient (Bowdoin College) The Orion (California State University – Chico) The Pacer (University of Tennessee – Martin) The Parthenon (Marshall University) The Phoenix (Swarthmore College) Pipe Dream (SUNY – Binghamton) The Pitt News (University of Pittsburgh) The Point News (St. Mary’s College) The Post (Ohio University) The Reporter (Stetson University) The Rocket (Slippery Rock University) The State News (Michigan State University) >>>The Tech (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Tufts Daily (Tufts University) The University Daily Kansan (University of Kansas) The University News (Saint Louis University) The Voice (Washtenaw Community College) JOHN McCAIN (2) The Criterion (Mesa State College) Daily Mississippian (University of Mississippi) CHOOSING TO MAKE NO ENDORSEMENT (22) Abilene Reporter-News Colorado Springs Gazette (N) The Fairfax County Times (Virginia) The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) Fort Meyers News-Press The Huntsville Times The Marietta Register (Ohio) The Morning Call (Allentown) Mountain Home News (Idaho) Loudoun Times Mirror (Virginia) The Roanoke Times 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