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The Editorial Endorsement Wars

Published by Warrior Tang October 24th, 2004 in US Politics

Editor and Publish has a good article about how Kerry is beating Bush in editorial endorsements 112-69 by number of individual papers or 14,400,000 to 8,600,000 in circulation size. More telling is that Kerry has earned the endorsement of 28 newspapers which endorsed Bush in 2000, which Bush has only earned the endorsements of two Gore supporting papers.

Most telling is that many of the Kerry-supporting papers have for the past five years had a policy of feeling free to slam Gore and Kerry on exaggerated or outright false charges while never letting the facts get in the way of a Bush administration/campaign claim dare they appear biased against Bush, but I’m just disgruntled…

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  1. 1 J.T. Wilson Oct 24th, 2004 at 1:51 pm

    Count the Chicago Sun-Times as another paper that endorsed Bush in 2000 but Kerry this time.

    Time to shift command to Kerry

  2. 2 katster Oct 25th, 2004 at 9:05 am

    Not a surprise, the Redding Record Searchlight went for Shrub. There’s a reason I call this neck of the woods RedStateVille. :) (nukefree@nukefreezone.net/nukefree should work as a u/p for that site.)

    -kat

  3. 3 Warrior Tang Oct 25th, 2004 at 9:02 pm

    The New Yorker is endorsing Kerry. Apparently, they’ve never endorsed anyone for President before, making this endorsement news in itself.

  4. 4 William Oct 26th, 2004 at 10:33 am

    My local paper also endorsed Kerry; I think the Philadelphia Inquirer’s endorsement and subsequent 21-part editorial series on why takes the prize for most enthusiastic and well-supported endorsement this year, though. ;^)

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