Shocking.
Obama Pulling Away in Newspaper Endorsement RaceBarack Obama picks up the support of The Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle, adding to his list of newspaper endorsements that's nearly three times as many as John McCain's.
FOXNews.com
Friday, October 17, 2008
Barack Obama has attracted the support of nearly three times as many newspapers as John McCain, according to a round-up from Editor and Publisher, as the endorsement season hits a frenzied pitch.
The latest major daily to back the Illinois senator is The Washington Post, which emphatically endorsed him Friday as "the right man for a perilous moment."
The Post described Obama as a candidate of "supple intelligence" and presidential temperament, while saying McCain's running mate choice of Sarah Palin helped clinch the paper's decision.
The Post called McCain's selection "irresponsible" and said Palin is "not ready to be president."
The San Francisco Chronicle also endorsed Obama in its Friday edition, describing him as a "portrait of calmness and deliberation" throughout the financial crisis.
Before those two endorsements, Editor and Publisher had tallied Obama's haul at 39 and McCain's at 15. The newspapers reach a circulation of 3.5 million for Obama and 1.5 million for McCain.
The Republican nominee has racked up some prominent endorsements over the past several weeks.
The New York Post in September endorsed McCain, saying "McCain's lifelong record of service to America, his battle-tested courage, unshakeable devotion to principle and clear grasp of the dangers and opportunities now facing the nation stand in dramatic contrast to the tissue-paper-thin resume of his Democratic opponent, freshman Sen. Barack Obama."
McCain was also endorsed by the Union Leader in New Hampshire, the Boston Herald and the Examiner newspapers in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.
Obama has picked up the most endorsements in California, including those of the Sacramento and Fresno Bee newspapers, the San Jose Mercury News and the Oakland Tribune.
Other major endorsements for Obama include those of The Boston Globe, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Toledo Blade, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Nashville Tennessean.
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