Posted on October 18, 2008 in Uncategorized

The proverbial dam is breaking [via E&P]:

The Denver Post, which had backed George W. Bush in 2004 and is owned by Republican-leaning William Dean Singleton, this evening endorsed Barack Obama for president. So did the Chicago Sun-Times, Kansas City Star. Southwest News-Herald (Ill.) and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. And to top it off: another Bush-backing in 2004, The Salt Lake Tribune. This followed this afternoon’s surprises: the Chicago Tribune, which has never in 150 years endorsed a Democrat, backed Obama, as did its fellow Tribune paper, the Los Angeles — which had endorsed no one in more than 30 years. It seems like a dam broke yesterday with the unexpectedly early choice of Obama by The Washington Post.

Now, of 74 endorsements from Editorial boards at newspapers, Barack Obama has received 58 of them. Full list below:

John McCain

18 newspapers total, About 1.7 million daily circulation

CALIFORNIA

Napa Valley Register: 16,283

The San Francisco Examiner (B): 80,000

COLORADO

Mountain Valley News (Cedaredge): 2,000

The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction) (B): 31,349

The Pueblo Chieftain (B): 49,169

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The Washington DC Examiner (N/A): 100,073

FLORIDA

Tampa Tribune

MARYLAND

The Baltimore Examiner (N/A): 50,000

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston Herald (B): 182,350

The (Lowell) Sun (B): 44,439

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Foster’s Daily Democrat (B): 22,547

Union Leader (Manchester) (B): 51,782

NEW YORK

New York Post (B): 702,488

OHIO

The (Findlay) Courier (B): 22,319

TEXAS

Amarillo Globe-News (B): 44,764

Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON

(Spokane) Spokesman-Review (B): 89,779

WEST VIRGINIA

Wheeling News-Register (B): 12,821

Barack Obama

59 newspapers total with over 8 million circulation

ARKANSAS

Arkansas Times (K): 34,000

CALIFORNIA

The Argus (Fremont) (K): 26,749

Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek) (K): 183,086

Daily Review (Hayward) (K): 30,704

The Fresno Bee (K): 150,334

La Opinion (Los Angeles) (K): 114,892

Los Angeles Times (N/A): 773,884

The Modesto Bee (K): 78,001

The Monterey County Herald (K): 28,933

Oakland Tribune (K): 96,535

The (Stockton) Record (B): 57,486

The Sacramento Bee (K): 288,755

San Bernardino Sun (B): 54,315

San Francisco Chronicle (K): 370,345

San Jose Mercury News (K): 234,772

San Mateo County Times (K): 25,982

Santa Cruz Sentinel (K): 23,290

Tri-Valley Herald (B): 29,759

COLORADO

Cortez Journal (K): 6,700

The Denver Post (B)

The Durango Herald (K): 8,870

Gunnison Country Times (N/A): 4,000

Ouray County Plaindealer (K): 3,000

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The Washington Post (K): 673,180

FLORIDA

Miami Herald

GEORGIA

Atlanta Journal-Constitution (K)

HAWAII

Honolulu Star-Bulletin (K): 64,305

ILLINOIS

Chicago Tribune (B): 541,663

Chicago Sun-Times

Southwest News-Herald (K)

IOWA

The Storm Lake Times (K): 3,200

MASSACHUSETTS

The Boston Globe (K): 350,605

The Standard-Times (New Bedford) (K): 30,306

MICHIGAN

The Muskegon Chronicle (K): 41,114

MISSOURI

Kansas City Star

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (K): 255,057

NEW MEXICO

Santa Fe New Mexican (K): 25,249

NEW YORK

el Dario La Prensa (): 53,856

NORTH CAROLINA

Asheville Citizen-Times (K): 50,160

OHIO

The (Toledo) Blade (K): 119,901

Dayton Daily News (K): 116,690

The (Canton) Repository (B): 65,789

Springfield News-Sun (K): 24,684

OREGON

Mail Tribune (Medford) (K): 30,349

PENNSYLVANIA

The Express-Times (Easton) (B): 44,561

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (K): 214,374

TENNESSEE

Chattanooga Times (K): 71,716

The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) (K): 146,961

The (Nashville) Tennessean (K): 161,131

TEXAS

The Lufkin Daily News (K): 12,225

UTAH

The Salt Lake Tribune (B):

VIRGINIA

Falls Church News-Press (K): 30,500

WASHINGTON

The Columbian (B): 44,623

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (K): 129,563

The Seattle Times (K): 220,883

WEST VIRGINIA

The Charleston Gazette (K): 48,061

WISCONSIN

The Capital Times (Madison) (K): 16,335

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) (B): 87,930

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