Updated Endorsement(Newspaper) Tally -- Obama Widens Lead to 115-38

[RedEarth]

Source: E&P

NEW YORK (Updated Monday) The Obama-Biden ticket maintains its strong lead in the race for daily newspaper endorsements, by 115 to 38, a better than 3-1 margin, picking up 70 or more papers in the past three days, including (see separate stories), the Detroit Free Press, Buffalo News, Cleveland's Plain Dealer, Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, New York's Daily News, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Portland's The Oregonian, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Salt Lake Tribune, Kansas City Star, and Chicago Sun-Times.

In a real shocker, two solid Bush papers in 2004, the Houston Chronicle and Austin American-Statesman, also came out for Obama today. So did the more traditionally Democratic the News & Obsever in Raleigh and the Orlando Sentinel, both in key battleground states.

Obama's lopsided margin, including most of the major papers that have decided so far, is in stark contrast to John Kerry barely edging George W. Bush in endorsements in 2004 by 213 to 205.

McCain did pick up a Texas nod from the San Antonio paper, plus a big one from the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio, as well as The San Diego Union-Tribune. All backed Bush in 2000 and 2004.

The readership of the newspapers backing Obama now stands at over 10 million vs. McCain's just under 2.5 million.

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[YDogg]

1. "The readership of the newspapers backing .... McCain's just under 2.5 million."

except they don't read.

[flvegan]

2. My RW piece of shit Tampa Tribune endorsed McCain.

Main reason I will never give them a single dime of my money. Haven't for a long time.

[frylock]

3. big shocker. san diego anti-union trib endorses mccain..

i let my subscrption run out when they endorsed shithead in 2004 and haven't looked back. guess they haven't learned jackola from their slumping sales. idiots.