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Many Newspapers That Backed Bush In 2004, Backing Obama

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain, Media

Including one from Utah?

NEW YORK The Denver Post, which had backed George W. Bush in 2004 and is owned by Republican-leaning William Dean Singleton, this evening endorsed Barack Obama for president. So did the Chicago Sun-Times, Kansas City Star. Southwest News-Herald (Ill.) and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. And to top it off: two more Bush backers in 2004, The Salt Lake Tribune and Las Cruces (N.M) Sun-News.

This followed this afternoon’s surprises: the Chicago Tribune, which has never in 150 years endorsed a Democrat, backed Obama, as did its fellow Tribune paper, the Los Angeles — which had endorsed no one in more than 30 years. It seems like a dam broke yesterday with the unexpectedly early choice of Obama by The Washington Post.

In E&P’s exclusive count, Obama now leads 62-18 in editorial endorsements. New additions for him include the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Oregonian of Portland.

Just to give you a sense of what that lead means, the papers endorsing McCain reach 1.7 million readers a day. The papers endorsing Obama reach over 8 million readers a day.

What’s more, Obama has been endorsed by 17 papers in California alone, only one less than McCain’s total endorsements.

Here’s some more perspective…

# of papers endorsing McCain – 18
California – 2
Colorado – 3
D.C. – 1
Florida – 1
Maryland – 2
Massachusetts – 2
New Hampshire – 2
New York – 1
Ohio – 1
Texas – 2
Washington – 1
West Virginia – 1

# of papers endorsing Obama – 62
Arkansas – 1
California – 17
Colorado – 5
D.C. – 1
Florida – 1
Georgia – 1
Hawaii – 1
Illinois – 3
Iowa – 1
Maine – 2
Massachusetts – 2
Michigan – 1
Missouri – 2
New Mexico – 2
New York – 1
North Carolina – 1
Ohio – 4
Oregon – 2
Pennsylvania – 3
Tennessee – 3
Texas – 1
Utah – 1
Virginia – 1
Washington – 3
West Virginia – 1
Wisconsin – 2

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