Nine Newspapers that endorsed Bush in 2000 endorse Kerry in 2004

[Sandpiper]

So far, Bush has lost the support of 11 papers that endorsed him 2000.

The following Bush 2000 papers are endorsing Kerry 2004:

Seattle Times (WA)
Albuquerque Tribune (NM)
Portland Oregonian (OR)
New London Day (CT)
Bradenton Herald (FL)
Columbia Tribune (MO)
Boulder Daily Camera (CO)
Arlington Heights Daily Herald (IL)

Two other Bush 2000 newspapers will not endorse a candidate in 2004:

Tampa Tribune (FL)
Winston Salem Journal (NC)

No newspaper that endorsed Al Gore in 2000 has endorsed George W. Bush in 2004!

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000670945

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000673213

[Cha]

1. Those two that aren't supporting anyone..

crack me up! I'm glad they aren't supporting bush ..how embarrassing for bushinc.

[Sandpiper]

3. Both are Republican rags

And the fact that they aren't endorsing Bush lets everyone know what a disaster they think the Chimperor has been.

Too funny.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. We're winning a landslide in this particular category

a shutout in fact.

One can't help but wonder what this foretells. (I know how I feel about it.)

[Poiuyt]

4. Don't forget Bush's hometown newspaper

Crawford TX

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. Circulation numbers should be given. nt

[Iceburg]

6. Circ #'s from the original article

snip ...
Our current tally, with latest daily circulation numbers, follows. "G" and "B" refer to whether the paper endorsed Gore or Bush in 2000:

JOHN KERRY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (G): 418,323
The Philadelphia Inquirer (G): 387.692
Detroit Free Press (G): 354,581
The Oregonian (Portland) (B): 342,040
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (G): 281,198
The Seattle Times (B): 237,303
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (G): 150,901
The Philadelphia Daily News: 139,983
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) (G): 109,592
The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, Calif.) (G): 89,384
Portland Press Herald (Maine) (G): 73,211
The Day (New London, Conn.) (B): 39,553
The Albuquerque Tribune (B): 13,536

Total Pro-Kerry Daily Circ: 2,637,297

GEORGE W. BUSH
Las Vegas Review-Journal (B): 170,061
Tulsa World (Okla.) (B): 139,383
Mobile (Ala.) Register (B): 100,244
The Oakland Press (Pontiac, Mich.): 65,484
The Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain: 52,208
The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) (B): 51,498
Amarillo (Texas) Globe-News (B): 51,105
The Sun (Lowell, Mass.) (B): 50,369
The Courier (Findlay, Ohio) (B): 22,319
The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, Tenn.): 22,057

Total Pro-Bush Daily Circ: 724,728

========================
Papers that won't endorse this year
Tampa Tribune in Florida (B): 224220
Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal (B): 85266

[KharmaTrain]

7. The Daily Herald Endorsement Is Bad News For Bunnypants

It's what a lot of us were hoping for...proof that REAL conservatives want this regime gone...

http://www.dailyherald.com/oped/index.asp


Bush's professed values of fiscal conservatism and social moderation are values this newspaper has long shared and are values that guided the Daily Herald in recommending the Republican candidate in each of the last four presidential endorsements we've made.

Neither peace nor prosperity was to last after the 2000 election. The economy was slowing by Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists killed nearly 3,000 innocents, crippling the economy and dealing a blow to Americans' sense of security. In the immediate aftermath, the president acted admirably, offering reassurance and sending troops to Afghanistan to pursue the perpetrators.

But before long, the president veered far off-course, and a review of his four years underscores that he and his band of neoconservatives have not acted conservatively in any sense of the word.

<snip>
Kerry, we acknowledge, stands to the left of this newspaper on many issues. To restore fiscal order and responsibility, he must leave behind some of the social programs he favors. As a practical matter, a check on his more liberal instincts might be provided by a Congress that is likely to remain in Republican hands - although this Congress has aided and abetted the Bush administration's building of record deficits.

Do voters have an inspiring choice? No. Faced with two imperfect candidates, the Daily Herald endorses John Kerry for president.

<snip>

For years I would chase this paper's solicitors from my door, not any longer...and if the Chicago Sun-Times doesn't endorse Kerry, we'll exclusively dump them after being family subscribers since the Sun-Times first began publishing.

Cheers to the Daily Herald!!!!

FWIW (on edit)...this paper is heavily read in the collar counties of Chicago and has a circulation of over 200,000...not quite a small paper.

[gottaB]

8. another non-endorsement

Bryan-College Station Eagle (Home of the GHW Bush Presidential Library)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x79593

26,980 daily, 30,001 Sunday as of May 2003

[otohara]

9. Ugh! The Boulder Daily Camera Endorsed Shrub

I guess now I remember that, but what in the hell were they thinking? Boulder???

[NewYorkerfromMass]

10. kick