BMOC: College Papers Back Obama -- By 79 to 1

By: Dexter Hill The Obama campaign leads in newspaper endorsements from dailies and weeklies, based on our tally so far (see separate story). The Democratic ticket has an even more impressive lead when it comes to college newspapers ? 79 to 1, according to our own list and UWIRE?s Presidential Endorsement Scorecard.

For more on the media and the campaign go to our new blog, The E&P Pub

First, here is the count from UWIRE.com, a networking Web site for journalism students:

JOHN McCAIN (1)
Daily Mississippian, U. Mississippi

BARACK OBAMA (63)
The Amherst Student, Amherst College
The Optimist, Abilene Christian U.
The Bates Student, Bates College
The Justice, Brandeis University
The Orient, Bowdoin College
The Orion, California State U.-Chico
Central Michigan Life, Central Michigan U.
The Flat Hat, College of William and Mary
Columbia Daily Spectator, Columbia U.
Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell U.
The Davidsonian, Davidson College
The Chronicle, Duke U.
Daily Eastern News, Eastern Illinois U.
The Et Cetera, Eastfield College
The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson College
El Vaquero, Glendale Community College
The Crimson, Harvard University
Indiana Daily Student, Indiana U.
Iowa State Daily, Iowa State U.
Daily Kent Stater, Kent State U.
The Parthenon, Marshall U.
The Tech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Miami Student, Miami U.
The State News, Michigan State U.
The Middlebury Campus, Middlebury College
Northern Star, Northern Illinois U.
Daily Northwestern, Northwestern U.
The Post, Ohio U.
The University News, Saint Louis U.
The Point News, St. Mary's College
The Rocket, Slippery Rock U.
The Daily Campus, Southern Methodist U.
The Reporter, Stetson University
Pipe Dream, SUNY-Binghamton
The Lamron, SUNY-Geneseo
The Phoenix, Swarthmore College
Tufts Daily, Tufts U.
Arizona Daily Wildcat, U. Arizona
Daily Californian, UC-Berkeley
New University, UC-Irvine
Daily Bruin, UCLA
The Daily Nexus, UC-Santa Barbara
Central Florida Future, U. Central Florida
Daily Illini, U. Illinois
University Daily Kansan, U. Kansas
The Louisville Cardinal, U. Louisville
The Michigan Daily, U. Michigan
The Michigan Journal, U. Michigan-Dearborn
Minnesota Daily, U. Minnesota
The Maneater, U. Missouri
Oklahoma Daily, U. Oklahoma
The Daily Pennsylvanian. U. Pennsylvania
The Pitt News. U. Pittsburgh
The Daily Gamecock, U. South Carolina
Badger Herald, U. Wisconsin
The Daily Cardinal, U. Wisconsin
Advance-Titan, U. Wisconsin-Oshkosh
The Pacer, U. Tennessee-Martin
Daily Texan. U. Texas
The Independent Collegian, U. Toledo
Daily Evergreen, Washington State U.
The Voice, Washtenaw Community College
The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia U.

PLUS, from the E&P List, all for Obama:

Advance-Titan (University of Wisconsin ? Oshkosh)
Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin ? Madison)
The Chronicle (Duke University)
The Daily Californian (University of California, Berkeley)
The Daily Cardinal (University of Wisconsin ? Madison)
The Daily Gamecock (University of South Carolina)
The Daily Illini (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Daily Northwestern (Northwestern University)
The Daily Pennsylvanian (University of Pennsylvania)
The Flat Hat (College of William & Mary)
Indiana Daily Student (Indiana University)
Mace and Crown (Old Dominion University
The Mac Weekly (Macalester College)
The Optimist (Abeline Christian University)
The Orient (Bowdoin College)
The University Daily Kansan (University of Kansas)