Has any major newspaper endorsed McCain yet?

[Fiendish Thingy]

I know that newspaper endorsements historically carry little weight in affecting voters' decisions, but it seems like this is a tsunami of endorsements for Obama, and cumulatively could have a larger impact than just one's local paper's endorsement.

[Quantess]

1. The San Francisco Examiner.

Seriously.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Here's the McNuts tally: not too impressive...19 newspapers

From Editor and Publisher:

JOHN McCAIN
19 newspapers total
About 2 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):
San Antonio Express-News

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

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

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. Thanks for the list; what's the (B) stand for ? n/t

[jmowreader]

28. It stands for Bush

Go to the Obama endorsements and you'll find Ks--Kerry. It's the candidate the paper endorsed in 2004.

[Lerrad]

16. Add Ohio - Columbus Dispatch n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

18. Are all the Examiner papers owned by the same group?

[cliffordu]

8. ......???? Wow.

[VolcanoJen]

10. Whaaaaa.....???

Are you punking me?

[Starry Messenger]

13. Sadly the Examiner got sold to a Bushbot a few years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Anschutz#Summary_of_business_interests

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Anschutz-SF-Examiner20feb04.htm

It's been a local joke of a tabloid ever since.

[CreekDog]

17. Fail! That is not a major newspaper, it's not even the Examiner that we had for years

it's a rag that's dumped for free (and not worth the price) on driveways throughout the San Francisco area. it is not a major paper. all the major papers in the Bay Area endorsed Obama.

This is the paper that misspelled "San Francisco" on its masthead a few years ago --that's what we are dealing with.

Also, the paper's owner has seen fit to make all his other papers endorse McCain.

[Quantess]

19. Thanks for clearing that up. I did not know that.

I lived in SF in the 1990s to 2000, when the Examiner was still respectable.

[CreekDog]

23. The old Examiner merged with the Chronicle and became the new Chronicle

The new Examiner, well... :eyes:

[Quantess]

27. Since this is a paper that gets thrown on everyone's sidewalks (Referring to post #2)

California:
San Francisco Examiner: readership 80,000

Wouldn't it be more realistic to say that approximately 79,000 of those "readers" put the SF Examiner straight into the recycling bin?

[CreekDog]

33. yes, except some do the suduku first

:shrug:

[kikiek]

3. Washington Post is one.

[myrna minx]

5. Actually, the Washington Post endorsed Obama:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101603436.html

[kikiek]

14. I read your post wrong. I know that.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. And the tally for Obama...seventy-six newspapers, circul 10M!

BTW, the K indicates they endorsed Kerry and B, of course, they endorsed *

BARACK OBAMA
76 newspapers total
Over 10 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):
Naples Daily-News (B)
Orlando Sentinel (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
Detroit Free Press (K):
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
The Daily News (B)
el Diario: 53,856

NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville Citizen-Times (K): 50,160
News & Observer (Raleigh) (K)
Wilmington Star-News (K)

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
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

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

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
Austin American-Statesman (B)
Houston Chronicle (B)
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
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

[soothsayer]

6. Grit

[Beaverhausen]

9. Dallas Morning News

[dkofos]

11. Dallas Morning News, but I wouldn't call it a major paper.

More of a RW rag.

[rainbow4321]

24. With an even lower circulation stat come Monday, going by readers' comments

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-nutwospots_19edi.State.Edition1.2908f55.html?ocp=1#slcgm_comments_anchor

Read the 22+ page list of comments. Lots of "I will be cancelling my subscription..." over this endorsement.



Each time their circulation drops (as it has been), they hand out pink slips, Hopefully the next round of pink slips will be given to the entire editorial board.


One of the best posted comments so far:

Actually, I'm surprised you didn't endorse writing-in votes for a third Bush term (although a McCain administration would be virtually the same thing).

[dkofos]

26. Blowback is a bitch.

[azmouse]

12. Has anyone noticed that NO AZ newspaper has endorsed McCain yet?!

[creature of habit]

15. The Boston Herald

I am a subscriber - home delivery - don't read it much these days.

[LiberadorHugo]

31. Why?

You have a very low post count and you pay money for a newspaper known to be a right-wing rag that you allegedly don't read. I guess we should give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you've recently seen the light and have just not yet bothered to cancel your subscription.

[Aloha Spirit]

34. I read it online only... it's been really fun watching the editorial page evolve over the campaign!

[book_worm]

20. I think I read the other day that the Hooterville Gazette endorsed McCain.

[rebel with a cause]

36. I knew what Hooterville was but wanted to make sure.

I just Yahoo this and it brought me right back to a DU post.

:rofl:

[kerry-is-my-prez]

21. I think the Tampa Tribune - which is a Repub rag. The St Pete paper prob. endorsed Obama.

n/t

[NEDem]

22. link here

http://www.demconwatchblog.com/2008/09/presidential-newspaper-endorsement-list.html

[Zorro]

25. San Diego Union-Tribune

Not exactly unexpected. The editorial board is quite reliably Republican.

Hopefully there will be a tremendous slew of cancellations based on this endorsement, which will further drive down the Copley family's asking price for this POS paper.

[TheCoxwain]

29. New York Post ( Rupert Murdoch Owned)

[rebel with a cause]

37. yellow journalism trash.

JMHO

[QueenOfCalifornia]

30. Our dumbass anti Union - Union Tribune

here is Red San Diego Loves McKlan.

They would endorse a child molester, armed robber before endorsing a Democrat of any color. We have Duncan Hunter for cryin' out loud....
Linky-dinky-doo: http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20081019/news_lz1ed19top.html

[FlaGranny]

32. Here's a list

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_United_States_presidential_primaries,_2008

Obama has a huge lead in newspaper endorsements. And here is a list of ALL his endorsements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign_endorsements

[SmokingJacket]

35. Yay, we have J.K. Rowling!! nt