According to
Editor and Publisher, Kerry has a huge lead in endoresements from daily newspapers. His "circulation edge" is 3-1. One interesting piece of information from this list is the current endorsement when compared with the same newspaper's endorrsement in 2000. There are a number of papers that endorsed Bush in 2000, but are endorsing Kerry in 2004. There is only a single paper listed that endorsed Gore in 2000, but is endorsing Bush today, the
York Daily Record of York, Pennsylvania.
It is interesting to note the York editorial. They support Bush's foreign policy, but are hoping that Bush will return to moderation in his domestic agenda. What are these guys thinking? Ashcroft, Cheney and Ridge are going to turn into Lowell Weicker and Nelson Rockefeller? Give me a break.
The large circulation edge stems from the fact that a vast majority of the big-city papers have endoresed Kerry. Kerry's support is urban, and Bush's is rural. No surprise there. Much of Bush's support arises in places where the only local papers are weeklies, so these papers won't even show up in this tally.
And ending on a good note, some of the papers that have switched to Kerry include the Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune, the Albuquerque Tribune, the (Portland) Oregonian, the Seattle Times, and the (Boulder) Daily Camera. Wecome to the fold.