Daily Endorsement Tally: Bush Has a Big Day, But Kerry is Still Eking Out

[NVMojo]

Heh, heh! So what if the teeny ones endorsed the idiot ...

Published: November 01, 2004 1:30 PM EDT

NEW YORK In the near-final tally of editorial endorsements, President Bush narrowed the gap on Sen. John Kerry today, picking up 21 mostly smaller papers compared to the challenger's five new additions. This brings the count of daily papers to 208-188 in favor of Kerry.

Since our last count, several weeklies on both sides were deleted because we are only covering paid dailies.

Kerry continues to easily hold the edge in the circulation of papers supporting him by a roughly 4-3 margin. And two more papers that backed Bush in 2000 have declared their neutrality: The News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla., and The Press of Atlantic City, in New Jersey.

More than 60 papers that backed Bush in 2000 have now switched to Kerry or endorsed neither candidate. Fewer than 10 switched the other way after backing Al Gore in 2000.

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000695456

[Bandit]

1. My hometown paper is very conservative and it endorsed

our Democratic candidate for the Senate. It did not endorse Kerry or Bush* but it endorsed Tony Knowles. Feel the tide turning?

[Tempest]

2. Kerry crushing Bush in circulation

JOHN KERRY
208 newspapers total
20,791,614 daily circulation

GEORGE W. BUSH
189 newspapers total
14,417,003 daily circulation

[NVMojo]

3. good point to look at the actual subscribed readership!