I thought I would start a thread about which papers in your area are supporting Kerry and which are for Bush.

In my area my Spokesman-Review, the city's only daily "reluctantly" their words, not mine endorses Bush.
My weekly, The Pacific Northwest Inlander endorses Kerry!!!
My west side (Wash.State) guys can correct me if I err, but I believe the Seattle Times, and P.I., have both endorsed Kerry.

I guess it comes as no surprise that The Boston Globe had endorsed Kerry. Not so sure about the Boston Herald.

No surprise that the NY Times endorsed Kerry. Interesting that the Tampa Tribune--a rather conservative paper that endorsed Bush in 2000--has chosen not to endorse anyone this time around. The major paper in my area--LA Times--has a plicy of not endorsing any presidential candidate. USA Today has the same policy.

~Adam

I can't say for sure, but I have a feeling the NY Post is endorsing Bush. wink

The San Francisco Chronicle endorsed Kerry.

The Detroit Free Press also endorsed Kerry.

For the first time in almost 100 years, the Winston-Salem Journal declined to endorse the Rep candidate... but also declined to endorse Kerry. They're getting called on that from both sides.

The Phila. Inquirer endorsed Kerry and in their editorial said they would publish articles over the next 23 days to explain why.

The Phila. Daily News was the first paper in the nation to endorse Kerry, way back in June or July or so.

Astoundingly, with uncharacteristic editorial thoughtfulness -- and yes, courage -- the (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot has endorsed John Kerry. Revolutionary!

The Boston Herald, on the other hand, and with characteristic brainlessness, gave its nod to four more years of this disastrous nonsense.

Editor & Publisher, btw, maintains a running tally of newspaper endorsements.

[ October 21, 2004, 06:33 PM: Message edited by: redsoxbreath ]

Boy, there's a surprise. They haven't endorsed a Republican presidential candidate in over 64 years, so why should that left-wing diaper start now?

The Virginian Pilot endorsed Kerry? That is a surprise.

Kerry gets the endorsement of the Des Moines Registrar, which is seen as very welcoming, as Iowa is a key battleground state.

And ad the important Orlando Sentinal for Kerry too.

The Lonestar Iconoclast, which just happens to be the hometown paper of President Bush in Crawford, Texas, endorsed John Kerry in its issue of September 29,2004. It is not my hometown paper!

[ October 24, 2004, 09:47 AM: Message edited by: BillyC ]

The LA Daily News, which endorsed Bush the Elder in '92, Dole in '96, and Bush the Junior in '00, today endorsed John Kerry. The final three paragraphs:

"A house divided against itself, Abraham Lincoln once famously warned, cannot stand. Under Bush, America has grown increasingly divided. And the alliance of nations that should be united against terror has likewise grown divided. New leadership is our best bet for bringing our country back together and forging the unity that we cannot win the war without.

Kerry offers us the chance for a new beginning, and throughout the past year's grueling campaign, he has demonstrated the toughness necessary to lead the country in a time of war.

John Kerry offers the change America needs for the next four years. But more importantly, at a time when the nation and the world need it most, he offers hope."

I'm surprised this (albeit second-tier) paper, one which never met a conservative cause it wouldn't champion, endorsed Kerry. Pleased, but surprised.

~Adam

Both Denver newspapers endorsed Bush?

Probably because they, unlike the left-wing rags masquerading as newspapers these days, see the danger posed by a Kerry victory. Do we give in to the terrorists, let other nations run our destiny and our security? Do we succumb to evil, one day speaking Arabic (or whatever else those Islamic Fascists speak nowadays) instead of English in this country? We do if we elect Kerry, the leader of a party built on deception and corruption. I fear too many people are being duped by Kerry-Edwards, not unlike the German people were duped by you-know-who. We must not go down that path of amorality and evil.

If you're planning on voting Bush/Cheney, you probably shouldn't be advocating against them so vociferously. Though I suppose the correct phrasing of that sentence would be "We must not go _further_ down that path of amorality and evil."

Hmmmm? Veritas channeling MIB?

You're not the only one to notice that. Did MIB change his screen name? Lately he's been conspicuous by his silence.

I was hoping I was the only one with that dreadful feeling. Never speak of this again. :cool:

The Austin paper has endorsed Bush. There was a huge protest yesterday on the Congress Avenue bridge outside of the newspaper offices.

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[ October 25, 2004, 08:24 AM: Message edited by: bobby78751 ]

A total of 7 newspapers here in Washington State have all endorsed Kerry. The only holdouts are the Vancouver (Wa.) paper, my Spokes-man Review, and the paper in Centralia Washington.

The Waco, Texas, (not far from Crawford) newspaper endorses...KERRY!
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The Chicago Sun-Times endorsed Kerry. The Chicago Tribune endorsed Bush, "urging" (their words) people to vote for Bush.

How strange, considering the Tribune has become the liberal paper in town and the Sun-Times the more conservative one. It used to be the other way around a few years ago, as I remember it well when I lived there.

I looked up and read the Sun-Times editorial. How typical. Calling Kerry a "moderate". will this bullshit ever end?

Just. What. Are. You. Liberals. Afraid. Of? Deceivers all, you are!

To arms!

MIB (I mean Veritas), I'm f**king afraid of 4 more years of W. with 1 to 3 Supreme Court justices in his mold to rule the rest of my life. How a single solitary gay person in this country could vote for this guy is the $64,000 question.

Who or what is MIB? :confused: Seriously.

Now, excuse me while I get back to the game.

Tally ho!

[ October 25, 2004, 06:28 PM: Message edited by: Veritas ]

Let's just say it was nice while it lasted.

MIB, er, Veritas, now come on. Only MIB would even CARE who the Tribune and Sun-Times are endorsing. Not Danimal, not Fantomas, not any of the other Chicago-based or semi-based folks, certainly not anyone in any of the swing states near Illinois (Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc.). This Tribune & Sun-Times thing has been one of your idees fixes for some time. We get it. I just wish you would come back as MIB so we could talk about Daley. Will ANY scandal ever get him off his throne--or wait, what did they call the chair Stalin sat on? Dictator Daley's really got to go.

Back to W and Kerry. Compared to W, Kerry is a moderate. Compared to W, RAYGUN was a moderate! I mean, Raygun didn't even go in for all the right-wing Christian nonsense. Neither did Goldwater! W is just lapping this crap up. God isn't talking to him, because if he were, he'd surely have given W SOME BETTER PLAN about solving the problems in Iraq. Wouldn't he?

And now you've got the Catholic hierarchy, who couldn't be bothered to address the sexually rapacious pedophiles and ephebophiles in their ranks till they were sued through the heavens (tort reform?), who barely open their mouths about the death penalty (uh, Christ was wrongly crucified!), or social injustice of any form, or unjust wars, or the slaughter of innocents...OR the ongoing pedophilia in the ranks, YET they are whipped up about abortion to the extent that they're threatening Catholics and telling them they can't receive communion if they support Kerry. It's just emetic.

BTW, I think the Tribune is off its rocker. They really ought to concentrate on their dreadful sports teams--maybe W can teach them a thing about that if he's out of a job in two weeks. The Sun-Times probably would have endorsed W, except that with the Hollinger scandal and so on, they probably realize that W-style politics and governance really is bad for the bottom line. You just might not have a job when it's all said and done under him!

[ October 25, 2004, 09:07 PM: Message edited by: fantomas ]

Sorry to disappoint you, sir, but I live in middle Ohio and have for several years. I did live in Chicago several years ago, and Dallas before that. My paper endorsed Bush this week.

Keep on fantasizing, though.

As far as having a job under Bush, mine will be fine. I'm a successful business owner who has happily employed many fine folks here for quite some time, and the president's tax cuts have allowed me to save a lot of money and reinvest it back in my company, preventing us from having to increase our monthly health insurance costs and pass on raises to the nonexempt employees who work for us.

To arms!

[ October 25, 2004, 09:37 PM: Message edited by: Veritas ]

Keep up with all of the newspaper endorsements HERE. Compared with the 2000 election, 34 have switched from Republican to Democrat and four have switched from Democrat to Republican. This is updated daily.

Interesting. In addition to newspapers, the list references a few magazines, including The American Conservative (a regular on my reading list ... NOT!), which asked its editors to write individual endorsements. The Constitution Party's Peroutka eek! got at least two , but Kerry got one, from Scott McConnell, which included these curious analogies (emphasis added by me):
Combine all that with W's chumminess with Kommissar Putin, and maybe we should all be buying fur hats. Khhheeestory, shmeestory? eek!

[ October 27, 2004, 04:28 PM: Message edited by: danimal ]

Not a newspaper, but fantomas and others may enjoy this--Francis "the end of history" Fukuyama won't vote for Bush. He won't say if he'll vote for Kerry, mind.

Interesting comments from Fukuyama, one of the leading Nattering Nabobs of Neocon:
And this:
Meanwhile, The Economist guardedly endorses Kerry (noting, for those who say they should keep their limey noses out of it, that 45% of their readers are bloddy colonials).
Both make much of Bush's inability or unwillingness to admit error of any kind. One must admit, they have a point there.

Link to Economist editorial: The incompetent or the incoherent?

[ October 29, 2004, 02:43 PM: Message edited by: danimal ]