Picking a President: Six Major Papers Choose

[baby_bear]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000663359

Published: October 10, 2004 10:00 AM EDT

NEW YORK Three more important news papers today endorsed Sen. John Kerry, who has been on a roll this weekend in E&P's exclusive daily tabulation of newspapers throwing their support to a candidate in the hard-fought race for the White House. The largest papers in three swing states endorsed Kerry today: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Portland Press Herald in Maine. Yesterday Kerry picked up the backing of three other large papers: The Oregonian in the other Portland (which backed President Bush in 2000), The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Bush notched no major endorsements this weekend (that we are aware of), and the current official E&P count stands at ten papers for Kerry and five for Bush, with Kerry holding about a 5-1 advantage in the circulation of the newspapers backing him. (If you know of any endorsements published this weekend but not included here, please write to: [e-mail])
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In its editorial today, the Inquirer calls its recommendation "urgent, deeply felt." It attacks Bush's presidency as one that started with "high promise that lapsed into multiple disasters." Among those disasters: running up the deficit and a response to the 9/11 attacks that has "gone fatefully awry," leaving Americans "less safe."
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In its editorial today, the daily in Portland, Maine -- the largest in that state -- said, "it is because we believe Kerry has, on the whole, the better plan for America that we endorse him for President of the United States." ..."Reversal of Roe would harm the reproductive rights of women, of course, but could also drive abortion services underground, making it unsafe for those who choose exercise this right. The person best qualified to decide whether to have an abortion is the woman who is pregnant. The candidate most likely to protect that right to choose is Kerry."
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and also see the clips from the other three newspapers mentioned in Oct 9's article, at http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000663358

I have been hoping for this.

s_m

[Nancy Waterman]

1. I wonder what the increasingly right Washington Post will do

They have been abominable toward Kerry and very supportive of Bush's reckless war.