Romney Leads in Swing State Newspaper Endorsements? Huh?

[ksoze]

Just now on MSNBC crawler...

[livetohike]

1. Not sure, but here is website that shows all newspaper endorsements

Pres. Obama is leading Romney

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/2012_newspaper_endorsements.php

[peacebird]

2. Which papers are owned by ClearChannel? Which, coincidentally, is owned by Bain.....

[onenote]

13. Does ClearChannel own newspapers? Hadn't heard that

and can't find anything that says what papers they own.

[Drab]

3. Romnesia is contagious!

[WI_DEM]

4. Traditionally GOP candidates get more newspaper endorsements.

Obama has done fine as well.

[NCarolinawoman]

5. The Raleigh News & Observer endorsed Obama yesterday.

That paper, and the Charlotte Observer are North Carolina's two biggest newspapers.

Let me add, I didn't see the Raleigh newspaper included on that list.

[nclib]

10. It's there.

If you go down the list by circulation number, it's 129,698.

[wishlist]

6. Crawler just allegation by Repub spokesperson?

I think the crawler I saw was just what a Repub was quoted saying/

[mnhtnbb]

7. Lots of little town dailies/weeklies representing red areas. BUT, in terms of circulation?

Obama leads in endorsements.

Just another way of bending the truth for Repubs.


With eight days to go before the 2012 election, 71 daily and 31 weekly or twice-weekly papers have endorsed Obama; 102 daily and 27 weekly newspapers have endorsed Romney. It should be noted that 20 of Romney's weekly endorsements come from small-circulation papers in Minnesota owned by Forum Communications.

Total circulation of the newspapers endorsing Obama: 14.4 million
Total for Romney: 8.6 million


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/27/1149243/-Here-s-another-update-of-newspaper-endorsements-for-president

[NYC Liberal]

8. Ok but how many endorse the same party every election vs how many changed this year?

That's what matters -- if anything. Obama has several endorsements from papers that endorsed McCain in 2008.

[Third Doctor]

9. MSNBC is a disappointment in the day time.

It's only watchable starting at 3PM (Bashir). The fact that they are reporting wrong information to favor Romney destroys the myth that it is a complete left leaning channel.

[SoapBox]

14. Agreed.

[Bad Thoughts]

11. GOP News consortium

I believe that two dozen newspapers, all owned by the same GOP-leaning interest, endorsed en masse, not individually.

[frank_t56]

12. quick guide

newspaperendorsements.com

[flamingdem]

15. grrrrrrr. I feel they were paid to put that there, that's a lie

He has Gannet in his pocket, what Des Moines Register connected to Bain, what else.

[wishlist]

16. Obama has 50, Romney 27 said Repub pundit on MSNBC Cycle

Yesterday pm, SE Cupp had statistics showing that Obama has more than twice the endorsements PLUS the total readership far eclipses the readership of the papers endorsing Romney. She said advantage is clearly Obama for what it's worth.