http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003875230 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. We have also added up the circulation of the papers endorsing each candidate. Here Obama leads almost 4-1: 13.4 million to 3.7 million. 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. Note: We are updating this story and list often so return for additions. The NY Daily News was yet another paper, now numbering at least 25, that backed George W. Bush in 2004 and now support Obama. The Long Beach (Ca.) Press-Telegram and Asbury Park (NJ) Press did the same. So did the San Gabriel Valley (Ca.) Tribune, Salt Lake Tribune, The Naples (Fla.) Daily-News, the New Haven (CT) Register, the Times-Reporter in New Philadelphia (Ohio), Las CRuces (NM) Sun-Newsm, Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gazette and the Yakima Herald-Republic in Washington, among others. In addition, the Plain Dealer of Cleveland, which sat out the 2004 contest, endorsed Obama. McCain has picked up only one Kerry paper so far: The Daily Press of Newport News, Va. Some of the other Sunday endorsements in no particular order: For McCain: Las Vegas Review, Jackson (Miss.) Sun, Fargo (ND) Forum, Bakersfield (Ca.) Californian, Leaf-Chronicle of Clarksville, Tenn., The Daily Press of Hampton Roads, Va., several papers in Texas (Lubbock, Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Longview, Wichita Falls). For Obama: Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News, Salem (Ore.) Statesman-Journal, Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, Idaho Statesman, Las Vegas Sun, Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal, Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal, Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune, The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.), Daily Breeze of Torrance, Ca., Rockford (Ill.) Register, Nashua (NH) Telegraph, Concord (NH) Monitor, Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard, Daily Herald of Arlington, Ill, Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, Mid-Columbia Tri-City Herald. Please send any endorsements you see or make to: gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com. For links to the latest endorsement editorials -- and frequent updates on the media and the campaign -- go to: The E&P Pub The Obama campaign has links to editorials backing him: http://therecord.barackobama.com/?p=2908 Obama also yesterday gained the backing of two major weeklies: The New York Observer (NYC) and Willamette Week in Oregon. Here is the latest chart of dailies which we are about to update for Sunday. As always, we include in brackets who the paper went with in 2004 with B=Bush and K=Kerry. BARACK OBAMA 115 daily newspapers total 13.4 million circulation ALABAMA Tuscaloosa News (K): ARKANSAS Arkansas Times (K): 34,000 CALIFORNIA The Argus (Fremont) (K): 26,749 Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek) (K): 183,086 Daily Breeze (Torrance) Daily Review (Hayward) (K): 30,704 The Fresno Bee (K): 150,334 La Opinion (Los Angeles) (K): 114,892 Long Beach Press Telegram (B) Los Angeles Daily News Los Angeles Times (N/A): 773,884 Marin Independent-Journal (K) The Modesto Bee (K): 78,001 The Monterey County Herald (K): 28,933 Oakland Tribune (K): 96,535 Pasadena Star-News (B) San Gabriel Valley Tribune (B) The (Stockton) Record (B): 57,486 The Sacramento Bee (K): 288,755 San Bernardino Sun (B): 54,315 San Francisco Chronicle (K): 370,345 San Jose Mercury News (K): 234,772 San Mateo County Times (K): 25,982 Santa Cruz Sentinel (K): 23,290 Tri-Valley Herald (B): 29,759 COLORADO Boulder Camera (K) Cortez Journal (K): 6,700 The Denver Post (B) The Durango Herald (K): 8,870 Gunnison Country Times (N/A): 4,000 Ouray County Plaindealer (K): 3,000 CONNECTICUT New Haven Register (B) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The Washington Post (K): 673,180 FLORIDA Daytona Beach News-Journal Miami Herald (K): Naples Daily-News (B) Orlando Sentinel (K): Palm Beach Post Sarasota Herald-Tribune (K) GEORGIA Atlanta Journal-Constitution (K) HAWAII Honolulu Star-Bulletin (K): 64,305 IDAHO Idaho Statesman (K): ILLINOIS Arlington Heights Daily Herald Chicago Tribune (B): 541,663 Chicago Sun-Times (K): Daily Herald (Arlington) (K) Rockford Register (K) Southwest News-Herald (K) INDIANA Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Palladium-Item (B) IOWA The Hawk Eye Mason City Globe Gazette (B) The Storm Lake Times (K): 3,200 KENTUCKY Lexington Herald-Leader (K) MAINE Bangor Daily News (K) Brunswick Times-Record (K) MASSACHUSETTS The Boston Globe (K): 350,605 The Standard-Times (New Bedford) (K): 30,306 MICHIGAN Detroit Free Press (K): The Muskegon Chronicle (K): 41,114 MISSOURI Columbia Daily Tribune Kansas City Star St. Louis Post-Dispatch (K): 255,057 NEVADA Las Vegas Sun NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord Monitor (K) Nashua Telegraph (K) NEW JERSEY Asbury Park Press NEW MEXICO Las Cruces Sun-News (B) Santa Fe New Mexican (K): 25,249 NEVADA Las Vegas Sun (K) NEW YORK Buffalo News (K) The Daily News (B) el Diario: 53,856 NORTH CAROLINA Asheville Citizen-Times (K): 50,160 Durham Herald-Sun Greenville Daily Reflector News & Observer (Raleigh) (K) Wilmington Star-News (K) OHIO Akron Beacon-Journal (K): The (Toledo) Blade (K): 119,901 Dayton Daily News (K): 116,690 The (Canton) Repository (B): 65,789 Times-Reporter (New Philadelphia) Springfield News-Sun (K): 24,684 The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) OREGON Register-Guard (Eugene) (K): Mail Tribune (Medford) (K): 30,349 The Oregonian of Portland (K) Salem Statesman-Journal (K) Yamhill Valley News-Register PENNSYLVANIA The Daily Item of Sunbury The Express-Times (Easton) (B): 44,561 Philadelphia Inquirer (K): Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (K): 214,374 TENNESSEE Chattanooga Times (K): 71,716 The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) (K): 146,961 The (Nashville) Tennessean (K): 161,131 TEXAS Austin American-Statesman (B) Bryan/College Station Eagle Houston Chronicle (B) The Lufkin Daily News (K): 12,225 UTAH The Salt Lake Tribune (B): VERMONT Burlington Free Press (K) VIRGINIA Falls Church News-Press (K): 30,500 WASHINGTON The Columbian (B): 44,623 The Olympian (K) Seattle Post-Intelligencer (K): 129,563 The Seattle Times (K): 220,883 Tri-City Herald (K) Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Yakima Herald-Republic (B) WEST VIRGINIA The Charleston Gazette (K): 48,061 Huntington Herald-Dispatch (K) WISCONSIN The Capital Times (Madison) (K): 16,335 Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) (B): 87,930 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- JOHN McCAIN 38 newspapers total 3.7 million daily circulation CALIFORNIA Bakersfield Californian (B) Napa Valley Register: 16,283 Riverside Press-Enterprise (B) The San Francisco Examiner (B): 80,000 San Diego Union-Tribune (B) COLORADO Mountain Valley News (Cedaredge): 2,000 The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction) (B): 31,349 The Pueblo Chieftain (B): 49,169 Daily Times-Call (Longmont) (B) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The Washington DC Examiner (N/A): 100,073 FLORIDA Bradenton Herald Tampa Tribune MARYLAND The Baltimore Examiner (N/A): 50,000 MASSACHUSETTS Boston Herald (B): 182,350 The (Lowell) Sun (B): 44,439 MINNESOTA The Journal (New Ulm): MISSISSIPPI Jackson Sun (B) NEW HAMPSHIRE Foster’s Daily Democrat (B): 22,547 Union Leader (Manchester) (B): 51,782 NEVADA Las Vegas Review (B) NEW YORK New York Post (B): 702,488 NORTH DAKOTA Fargo Forum (B) OHIO Columbus Dispatch (B) The (Findlay) Courier (B): 22,319 OREGON Bend Bulletin (B) TENNESSEE Leaf-Chronicle of Clarksville (B) The Jackson Sun (B) TEXAS Amarillo Globe-News (B): 44,764 Beaumont Enterprise Corpus Christi Caller-Times Dallas Morning News (B): The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal San Antonio Express-News Wharton Journal Spectator Wichita Falls Times Record VIRGINIA The Daily Press (Hampton Roads) (K) The Winchester Star WASHINGTON (Spokane) Spokesman-Review (B): 89,779 WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling News-Register (B): 12,821
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