Seattle Times endorses Kerry

[Bossy Monkey]

As ever, this is from the AP endorsements story:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NEWSPAPER_ENDORSEMENTS?SITE=SCCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

The Seattle Times, Seattle, endorsed Kerry on Oct. 24:

"We wish Kerry had more clarity. Bush has clarity, but it is the clarity of wrong ideas. Imagine Bush on TV next year, saying we had to invade another country. Could anyone trust him? That may be the best reason for supporting John Kerry."

As ever, I'll try to get a link to the actual editorial on edit.

Edit: Here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2002070412_johned24.html
Not ringing or poetic like the NY Times, but I'll take it.

[DemFromMem]

1. Ooh, another switch from Bush in 2000 to Kerry in 04

For some reason I thought they endorsed Kerry a week or so ago.

[Bossy Monkey]

3. Post-Intelligencer was a week ago n/t

[cliss]

2. Nice! I think we've now got - what?

85% of all newspapers endorsing Kerry?

[Bossy Monkey]

4. Probably about half and half. Newspapers are notoriously gutless

because the bulk of their subscribers are in the suburbs and tend to be Republican, as do their advertisers. However, I think the number of papers that endorsed Bush last time but have switched to Kerry this time is now upwards of 20, while only 2 that endorsed Gore have gone to Bush. (There's a story about this on DU's front page.) And several that literally have never endorsed Democrats are refusing to endorse anybody, which is a pretty major FU to Dubya.

[DemFromMem]

5. Actually, I have a count of about 34 to 3

[Bossy Monkey]

6. Here's today's crop

Many, many more for Bush than 3
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NEWSPAPER_ENDORSEMENTS?SITE=SCCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

DUer Tesibria is maintaining a running tally here: http://tesibria.typepad.com/democracy_is_coming/

[DemFromMem]

7. Thanks, but these lists are still incomplete

Noticed the omission of the Chattanooga Times Free Press and Seattle Times switch endorsements in both. Hopefully, they will get these updated soon.

[Bossy Monkey]

9. I believe we're talking at cross purposes. You're talking about switched

endorsements; the question was about endorsements overall.

[siliconefreak]

8. The current tally

Kerry: 125 newspaper endorsements
Bush: 96 newspaper endorsements

Circulation numbers:

Kerry: 16 million
Bush 10 million

More:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000683265

[Hog lover]

10. Do you have links to studies on effect of endorsements?

I would be interested in knowing how many votes in Presidential elections endorsements sway? I think I have read that newspaper endorsements have a far greater effect in local races (or in the case of a small state like mine, maybe state races).

[bornskeptic]

11. That makes the Seattle Times

the first paper to endorse Kerry twice. It endorsed him several weeks ago. In fact, as far as I know, it was the first endorsement of the campaign. I don't have a link to the original endorsement, but here is an Editor and Publisher article from October 8
which has the Seattle Times listed in the Kerry endorsements.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000662670

[Bossy Monkey]

12. E&P surveys papers; doesn't mean the endorsements come out

when they add the paper to the list. This isn't clear from their current webpage, and I don't feel like registering just to find a link, but here's the cached page for 10/11 that explicitly refers to their survey:
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:aMSsIdfs-XMJ:www.mediainfo.com/eandp/index.jsp+%22editor+%26+publisher%22+endorsements+survey&hl=en