By: Dexter Hill and Greg Mitchell With just over three weeks until voters have their say in this year?s presidential race, many newspapers cast their editorial endorsement ballots yesterday, as we chronicled here. Obama won the day by a 17-2 margin. As in 2004, E&P will be charting every editorial endorsement, and presenting a chart showing the tally so far -- and circulation numbers for each paper.
So far, the Obama-Biden ticket leads with 28 editorial endorsements, with the McCain-Palin lagging far behind with 11. It's too early to project, but in 2004, John Kerry barely edged George W. Bush in endorsements, by about 220 to 205.
In another important measure: Obama has so far won the backing from five papers that endorsed the GOP candidate in 2004, while McCain has earned no flip-flops.
Taking a look at the newspapers? combined daily circulations, though, McCain has lost his early edge, and now trails badly with 1,349,721 readers to Obama?s 2,758,429 daily circulation. UPDATE: The Boston Globe has just endorsed Obama, not a shocker.
We?ll keep you posted as more editorial endorsements are announced but send any you see to: gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com.
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Here is our chart, which includes latest circulation numbers and in parens the candidate endorsed in 2004 (B=Bush, K=Kerry).
JOHN MCCAIN11 newspapers total
1,349,721 combined daily circulation
CALIFORNIA
Napa Valley Register: 16,283
The San Francisco Examiner (B): 80,000
COLORADO
The Pueblo Chieftain (B): 49,169
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The Washington DC Examiner (N/A): 100,073
MARYLAND
The Baltimore Examiner (N/A): 50,000
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Herald (B): 182,350
The (Lowell) Sun (B): 44,439
NEW YORK
New York Post (B): 702,488
OHIO
The (Findlay) Courier (B): 22,319
WASHINGTON
(Spokane) Spokesman-Review (B): 89,779
WEST VIRGINIA
Wheeling News-Register (B): 12,821
BARACK OBAMA28 Newspapers total
2,758,429 combined daily circulation
CALIFORNIA
*Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek) (K): 183,086
The Fresno Bee (K): 150,334
The Monterey County Herald (K): 28,933
The (Stockton) Record (B): 57,486
The Sacramento Bee (K): 288,755
San Bernardino Sun (B): 54,315
San Jose Mercury News (K): 234,772
Santa Cruz Sentinel (K): 23,290
*[NOTE: Other BANG-EB papers will be added tomorrow]
COLORADO
Gunnison Country Times (N/A): 4,000
HAWAII
Honolulu Star-Bulletin (K): 64,305
IOWA
The Storm Lake Times (K): 3,200
MASSACHUSETTS
The Standard-Times (New Bedford) (K): 30,306
MICHIGAN
The Muskegon Chronicle (K): 41,114
MISSOURI
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (K): 255,057
NEW MEXICO
Santa Fe New Mexican (K): 25,249
NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville Citizen-Times (K): 50,160
NORTH DAKOTA
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
PENNSYLVANIA
The Express-Times (Easton) (B): 44,561
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (K): 214,374
TENNESSEE
The (Nashville) Tennessean (K): 161,131
VIRGINIA
Falls Church News-Press (K): 30,500
WASHINGTON
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (K): 129,563
The Seattle Times (K): 220,883
WEST VIRGINIA
The Charleston Gazette (K): 48,061
WISCONSIN
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) (B): 87,930
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