WTF! Orlando Sentinel last endorsed a Dem (LBJ) in the '64 Landslide!

[TruthIsAll]

Johnson won with over 60% of the vote against the decent, conservative patriot Barry Goldwater.

Omens, anyone?

[harpo]

1. people are waking from the haze

[Lancer]

2. Wow! That is very encouraging.

Last week I drove through parts of SW Virginia that probably have not gone Democratic since FDR in 1932! These are rock-ribbed Republican counties, but they were wallpapered in Kerry signs. I couldn't believe it. I was traveling with my Dad, a long-time editorial page editor and political soothsayer. Noting all the Kerry-Edwards signs, he said, 'if I didn't know better I'd say we may have a landslide on our hands."

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

3. Do you know if the Orlando Sentinel is endorsing

a presidential candidate this year?

[TruthIsAll]

4. I forgot to say it: Kerry.

tia

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

12. Do you have a link to the article?

[elperromagico]

5. Only two Democrats have won more newspaper endorsements

than the Republican since 1932:

Not FDR,
Not Truman,
Not JFK,
Not Carter.

The only two were LBJ in '64 and Clinton in '92. Should we add Kerry to that list?

[LittleClarkie]

7. Here's the question of the day: has any Dem ever

won this many endorsement and NOT been elected President?

[elperromagico]

8. Considering how few most Democrats have won compared to Republicans,

I'd say the answer would be no.

[rjbny62]

10. endorsements won't mean crap to the fantasy-based community

this is the fundamental problem - truth doesn't matter to those who have their heads in the sand and don't look at the reality of the situation, and it appears that there are a lot of these people out there

[Awsi Dooger]

6. My dad mentioned this to me tonight

I know the rightwing history of that paper and was shocked. Sure enough, he said the Sentinel endorsed the Republican senate candidate Martinez and not Castor, so this is an anti-Bush stance, not a political shift.

Orlando is in the critical I-4 corridor of Florida, the heavily populated swing voter region of the state.

[Guaranteed]

9. The great thing about this endorsement is that Orlando

is dead in the middle of the battleground area of the state.

[flpoljunkie]

11. Thanks for this, TruthIsAll! Perhaps a very good omen!