Bush finds fickle fortune in the press

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Times
By Elaine Monaghan

BAD news for President Bush. A survey by the Editor and Publisher magazine reveals that 36 newspapers which endorsed him four years ago have “flip-flopped” and are now backing John Kerry.

They include the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, a key state, which has backed the Republican candidate in every election since 1968.

Mr Bush has won over just six papers that backed Al Gore in 2000. They include the Denver Post, which received 700 letters of protest.

Overall Mr Kerry has won the endorsements of 142 newspapers with a combined circulation of 17.5 million to 123 with an 11.5 million circulation for Mr Bush.

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1. Dozens of newspapers shift allegiance to Democrat camp

David Teather in New York
Thursday October 28, 2004
The Guardian

Four years ago the Chicago Sun-Times endorsed George Bush for president. On Sunday, it became one of a growing number of American newspapers to admit they had got it wrong.

At least 37 newspapers which backed Mr Bush in 2000 have switched sides to John Kerry.

A Sun-Times editorial listed a number of reasons for withdrawing its support from Mr Bush. The administration, it said, had been "wilfully and woefully unprepared to face" the insurgency in Iraq. The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy were "a costly misstep in a time of war" and the paper was concerned by the secrecy of Mr Bush's "subordinates such as Dick Cheney and John Ashcroft".

Mr Kerry, the paper said, acknowledged that the "United States is a world leader, not a rogue state".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1337634,00.html