I find it rather ironic that I'm using this from E&P when Greg Mitchell has that ad over there. Love your work Greg!
NEW YORK 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.
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Wahoo!!
I'd like to point out that three of the "newspapers" endorsing McCain are tabloid sheets that share editorial content: the Washington Examiner, Baltimore Examiner, and San Francisco Examiner are basically the same newspaper, that only differ in their local news coverage.
Are we picking up enough tabloid newspapers? The electoral need is not so much newspapers that will reach college professors; we need those with production floor and checkout workers as their main readership. I see that my question looks a bit tactless, but I can't pose it better than that. Sorry!
There will be a wide selection of newspapers with which to whack Ol' McYeller on the snoot. Bad dog!
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