Kerry still smashing Bush in newspaper endorsements (incl. 41 switchers)

[sonicx]

NEW YORK In the latest daily update to our exclusive list of editorial endorsements for president, 41 newspapers that backed President Bush in 2000 have switched to Sen. John Kerry's camp.

The three new examples are the Times-Standard of Eureka, Calif., the Observer-Reporter of Washington, Pa., the La Crosse (Wisc.) Tribune. They join large papers such as the Orlando Sentinel, the Daily News in Los Angeles, and The Seattle Times in this category. Bush has picked up only six formerly Gore-backing papers that we know of.

At least 11 other papers have switched from Bush in 2000 to neutral this year, including The Detroit News, The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, and The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.

In the closing days of the endorsement race, Kerry now leads comfortably, 175 newspapers to 138. The Democrat's list grew by 13 today, compared with nine new endorsements for Bush. The circulation count of papers supporting Kerry is no contest; he leads 18.8 million to 12.1 million.

Among Kerry's new supporters is the Bonner County Daily Bee in Sandpoint, Idaho -— with a circulation of 4,537, the smallest paper on our list so far. The next-smallest paper is the Edwardsville (Ill.) Intelligencer (circ 5,092), which also endorsed Kerry.

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[Tesibria]

1. my REQUIRED reading every day!!

makes me happy to see how Kerry is trouncing the endorsements!!