By: Dexter Hill and Greg Mitchell With exactly three weeks until voters have their say in this year?s presidential race, many newspapers cast their editorial endorsements in the past few days, as we chronicled here. 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.
In today's update, Barack Obama gains six papers -- including the Boston Globe -- while McCain picks up two. So far, the Obama-Biden ticket leads with 34 editorial endorsements, with the McCain-Palin lagging far behind with 13. 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 six papers that endorsed the GOP candidate in 2004, while McCain has earned no flip-flops. Taking a look at the newspapers? combined daily circulations, McCain trails badly.
The Los Angeles Times today seemed to signal a coming endorsement of Obama, but we have not yet added that to this list.
McCain's new backers come at Foster's Daily Democrat in New Hampshire and the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colo.
We?ll keep you posted as more editorial endorsements are announced but send any you see to: gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com.
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The E&P PubHere is our chart, which includes latest circulation numbers and in parens the candidate endorsed in 2004 (B=Bush, K=Kerry).
JOHN MCCAIN13 newspapers total
1,403,617 daily circulation
CALIFORNIA
Napa Valley Register: 16,283
The San Francisco Examiner (B): 80,000
COLORADO
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
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
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 OBAMA34 Newspapers total
3,318,763 daily circulation
CALIFORNIA
The Argus (Freemont) (K): 26,749
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek) (K): 183,086
Daily Review (Hayward) (K): 30,704
The Fresno Bee (K): 150,334
Oakland Tribune (K): 96,535
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
San Mateo County Times (K): 25,982
Santa Cruz Sentinel (K): 23,290
Tri-Valley Herald (B): 29,759
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 Boston Globe (K): 350,605
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
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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