By Greg Mitchell
Published: October 23, 2004 updated continually
New York Senator John Kerry continued his raid on newspapers that backed President George W. Bush in 2000, grabbing 17 new "flip-flops," as well as The Washington Post. He has now won over at least 28 papers that went for Bush in 2000, while Bush has only earned two Gore papers.
However, Bush got a real prize in Ohio, the Columbus Dispatch.
Kerry now leads Bush 112-69 in endorsements in E&P's exclusive tally, and by about 14.4 million to 8.6 million in the circulation of backing papers.
Full text at...
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content _id=1000683265
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:21:55 -0400
> From: snit snat <snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] editorial scoreboard
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Message-ID:
> <6.1.2.0.2.20041024131934.02d4a8f0 at pop-server.tampabay.rr.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>
> anyone know a site where they're keeping score of newspaper editorial
> endorsements?
>
> What do folks think? Does it feel like just a ton of papers are coming out
> in favor of Kerry? Or is that my narrow view given my reading proclivities?