I think a bunch of us need to reconsider our views of PARADE magazine, the Sunday newspaper insert. Have you read your Sunday newspaper yet? Does your newspaper provide PARADE Magazine as an insert?
Well, guess what is the featured section of today's publication (other than the Daniel Craig cover piece)? A PARADE magazine poll entitled "Who's More 'Presidential'?" And, guess who got the top percentage in every category? Barack Obama!!
PARADE is a national Sunday newspaper magazine, distributed in more than 400 newspapers in the United States. The most widely read magazine in America, PARADE has a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 71 million. (Crains New York)
From today's PARADE magazine:
In a recent issue of PARADE, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote about 10 traits shared by Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, two of our greatest Presidents. We asked readers to vote on whether the current candidates had those qualities. Here are some of the results.
McCain Obama
Courage to stay strong 49% 51%
Learns for errors 50% 50%
Willingness to change 34% 66%
Self-control 36% 64%
Understands people's concerns 33% 67%
Strong moral compass 40% 60%
A gift for inspiring others 31% 69%
You (we) can still vote at Parade.com/intel! Kos this poll now!!
Also, in the printed version of PARADE magazine, right below the "Who's More 'Presidential'?' article is one entitled: How To Vote When You've Lost Your Home
The article is only three paragraphs long. Here's the middle one:
The numbers of potentially affected voters are big enough to alter the results in several states. Ohio has had about 99,000 foreclosure filings so far this year, and in 2004 only 118,601 votes separated Kerry from Bush, who took the state. Nevada has had about 68,000 filings to date, and in 2004 Bush won the state by a slim 21,500 votes.
I wrote a diary about PARADE's magazine unusual implied support of Barack Obama two weeks ago. In that diary, I wrote:
I mean, think about the audience reading this information, in their jammies, sipping their coffee, with the Sunday paper spread out before them. I can see my parents, in-laws, aunts and uncles reading today's PARADE and learning something.