I wonder if all of those papers are published in Non-Real American Areas?
The New York Times
October 24, 2008
Editorial
Barack Obama for PresidentHyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.
The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of its ability to protect and help its citizens — whether they are fleeing a hurricane’s floodwaters, searching for affordable health care or struggling to hold on to their homes, jobs, savings and pensions in the midst of a financial crisis that was foretold and preventable.
As tough as the times are, the selection of a new president is easy. After nearly two years of a grueling and ugly campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has proved that he is the right choice to be the 44th president of the United States.
•
Mr. Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change. He has shown a cool head and sound judgment. We believe he has the will and the ability to forge the broad political consensus that is essential to finding solutions to this nation’s problems.
In the same time, Senator John McCain of Arizona has retreated farther and farther to the fringe of American politics, running a campaign on partisan division, class warfare and even hints of racism. His policies and worldview are mired in the past. His choice of a running mate so evidently unfit for the office was a final act of opportunism and bad judgment that eclipsed the accomplishments of 26 years in Congress.
Given the particularly ugly nature of Mr. McCain’s campaign, the urge to choose on the basis of raw emotion is strong. But there is a greater value in looking closely at the facts of life in America today and at the prescriptions the candidates offer. The differences are profound.
Mr. McCain offers more of the Republican every-man-for-himself ideology, now lying in shards on Wall Street and in Americans’ bank accounts. Mr. Obama has another vision of government’s role and responsibilities.
In his convention speech in Denver, Mr. Obama said, “Government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves: protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology.”
Since the financial crisis, he has correctly identified the abject failure of government regulation that has brought the markets to the brink of collapse.
—•
Mr. Obama has withstood some of the toughest campaign attacks ever mounted against a candidate. He’s been called un-American and accused of hiding a secret Islamic faith. The Republicans have linked him to domestic terrorists and questioned his wife’s love of her country. Ms. Palin has also questioned millions of Americans’ patriotism, calling Republican-leaning states “pro-America.”
This politics of fear, division and character assassination helped Mr. Bush drive Mr. McCain from the 2000 Republican primaries and defeat Senator John Kerry in 2004. It has been the dominant theme of his failed presidency.
The nation’s problems are simply too grave to be reduced to slashing “robo-calls” and negative ads. This country needs sensible leadership, compassionate leadership, honest leadership and strong leadership. Barack Obama has shown that he has all of those qualities.
Please read the entire endoresment here.
***
Editor & Publisher
26 Papers That Backed Bush in 2004 Move to ObamaBy Dexter Hill
Published: October 20, 2008 9:45 PM ET
NEWYORK Taking a look at our daily endorsement tally so far (see link below), the Obama-Biden ticket has a hefty lead in both total newspapers and total circulation. But another figure that favors the Democratic candidates is the number of newspapers that have endorsed Sen. Obama despite supporting President Bush’s reelection in 2004.
At least twenty-six newspapers have switched their support to the Democrat, while only four newspapers (all in the South) endorsing Sen. McCain supported John Kerry in 2004.
In California alone, the Obama-Biden ticket picked-up six newspapers that endorsed President Bush in 2004.
He also gained a few papers, such as the Los Angeles Times and Cleveland’s Plain Dealer that did not endorse either candidate in 2004.
Our full tally of all endorsements, with Obama ahead by about 115 to 40, updated Mondayhere.
The switchers:
BARACK OBAMA (26)
CALIFORNIA
Long Beach Press Telegram (B): 85,595
Pasadena Star-News (B): 27,894
San Gabriel Valley Tribune (B): 40,051
The (Stockton) Record (B): 57,486
San Bernardino Sun (B): 54,315
Tri-Valley Herald (B): 29,759COLORADO
The Denver Post (B): 225,193CONNECTICUT
New Haven Register (B): 72,613FLORIDA
Naples Daily-News (B): 66,272ILLINOIS
Chicago Tribune (B): 541,663INDIANA
Palladium-Item (Richmond) (B): 15,453IOWA
Mason City Globe Gazette (B): 17,666NEW JERSEY
Asbury Park Press (Neptune) (B): 140,882NEW MEXICO
Las Cruces Sun-News (B): 21,341NEW YORK
Daily News (B): 703,137OHIO
Hamilton Journal-News (B): 19,432
The Repository (Canton) (B): 65,789
The Times-Reporter (New Philadelphia) (B): 22,428OREGON
Yamhill Valley News-Register (McMinnville) (B): 10,921PENNSYLVANIA
The Express-Times (Easton) (B): 44,561TEXAS
Austin American-Statesman (B): 170,309
Houston Chronicle (B): 494,131UTAH
The Salt Lake Tribune (B): 121,699WASHINGTON
The Columbian (B): 44,623
Yakima Herald-Republic (B): 38,077WISCONSIN
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) (B): 87,930JOHN McCAIN (4)
FLORIDA
Bradenton Herald (K): 48,618TENNESSEE
The Jackson Sun (K): 32,121TEXAS
Corpus Christi Caller-Times (K): 53,368VIRGINIA
Daily Press (Newport News) (K): 91,508