[lbo-talk] editorial scoreboard

Jeffrey Fisher jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
Sun Oct 24 17:41:12 PDT 2004


On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:40:47 -0500, John Thornton <jthorn65 at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> >"Kerry now leads Bush 118-69 in endorsements in E&P's exclusive tally,
> >and by about 14.9 million to 8.9 million in the circulation of backing
> >papers."
>
> How good an indicator is this of the outcome? Do papers back candidates
> primarily for ideological reasons or do they try to pick the potential
> winner to endorse to avoid being embarrassed by backing the wrong horse ?
>

more the former than the latter, certainly. that's what's so interesting about the detroit news sitting things out, among others switching or staying neutral. the news wants a different republican, and they're not endorsing W just because he's the republican running.

from the same article:

"The Detroit News, which has never endorsed a Democrat, and which backed Bush in 2000, announced that it would sit out the 2004 election, not happy with either candidate. The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, another Bush backer in 2000, said the same thing today in an editorial titled "No One to Champion." A third Bush supporter in 2000, The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., also declared neutrality today. "

kerry also swept the major newspapers in florida, and apparently there's a big fight going on now at the cleveland plain dealer over the endorsement, between the publisher and the editors.

j



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