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The Record - Stocton http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080928/A_NEWS0801/809280302(The Record endorsed Bush over Kerry/Gore)
For the first time in 72 years, The Record is endorsing a Democrat for president.
Franklin D. Roosevelt got our nod in 1936. The reasons for the endorsement of Barack Obama over John McCain are articulated in the editorial on this page.
The unanimous decision was made by our editorial board, which consists of Publisher Roger W. Coover, Managing Editor Donald W. Blount, Opinion Page Editor Eric Grunder, Human Resources Director Sandi Johnson and me.
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The Canton Repository http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=3&ID=433429&r=7&subCategoryID=37(The Canton Repository endorsed Bush in 2004 and McCain in the 2000 primary)
This is not the John McCain that The Repository endorsed in the 2000 Republican primary over George W. Bush. Then, McCain was unquestionably an independent thinker. We supported him in large part because his spending plan was more conservative than Bush's. The John McCain of 2008 freely admits he has voted with President Bush 90 percent of the time, even to the extent of flip-flopping on the Bush tax cuts he originally opposed as detrimental to the deficit.
The events of the last two weeks have provided another telling contrast between the two candidates. Obama has stressed the need for a bipartisan agreement on a financial bailout and reform package that includes strong accountability measures. McCain has indulged his penchant for drama. He declared that if he were president, he would fire the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission — action that a president doesn't have the authority to take. Then he abruptly refused to debate Obama on Friday — at a time when Americans need to hear directly from both men about their reaction to the financial crisis — but, fortunately, McCain changed his mind again.
We believe that Obama's intellect, caution, levelheadedness and calm demeanor make him better suited to lead a nation that must respond to many unwelcome changes with yet more change. The Repository endorses Sen. Barack Obama for president. 3)
The Mercury News http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_10638757Americans need a clean and dramatic break from the derelict policies of George W. Bush. We desperately need a president who will restore our standing in the world and re-energize us at home by turning attention to issues that Bush ignored: the need for energy independence, the stagnant wages of the middle class and the lack of affordable health care.
Barack Obama will be such a president. He speaks to Americans' yearning for renewal. He has the ability to restore America's confidence and guide this country toward a more stable and secure future.
Not since John F. Kennedy has a presidential candidate so moved a young generation. His election would be historic. It would alter the perception that minorities are limited in what they can achieve; the world would see an America that not merely preaches racial equality but lives by it. 4)
Esquire Magazine http://www.esquire.com/features/esquire-endorsements-2008/esquire-endorses-barack-obama ( This is the first time Esquire Magazine has endorsed a candidate in its 75 year history)
John McCain has decided on a cheap and dishonorable campaign. He has embraced the tactics with which he was slandered in 2000, and he has hired the people responsible for them. In so doing, he has become something of a mockery of everything he once purported to be. He has stated that he wouldn't now vote for his own immigration bill. He has operated in violation of the very campaign-finance law that bears his name. And even though his own body bears the scars of torture, he has silenced himself on the issue of the torture sanctioned and designed by the government he seeks to lead, so as not to alienate "the base." The most underutilized trope of the campaign is the notion that John McCain is running against John McCain.
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Dayton Daily News http://www.daytondailynews.com/o/content/oh/story/opinions/editorial/2008/10/12/ddn101208obamaxxmg.html(endorsed Kerry in 2004)
The nation's moment of choice arrives even as some sort of new era has arrived in the realm of the economy. The problems the nation is obsessed with at this moment are not problems that John McCain has any particular experience with. Neither does Barack Obama.
But in a time of change, Sen. Obama is the more promising leader. With his agile mind, often pitch-perfect judgment and preternatural calm and self-confidence, he seems built for the job of sorting through this thing, if anybody can.
The nation faces a choice that looks more and more like a choice between the future and the past. It has never been one to shrink from the future. 6)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/382005_obamaed.htmlIf the country ever needed new direction under a fresh, steady, calm president, this is the time. Sen. Barack Obama is the country's hope, the kind of promising, intelligent leader who comes along perhaps once in a generation.
Obama is the best candidate for president. He has the vision, patience and fortitude to put America on a track to recovery after an eight-year run of financial irresponsibility, aggressive adventurism abroad and mismanagement, secrecy and dissembling on numerous fronts.
The issues and the superiority of the Obama-Joe Biden team have become clearer than ever in the past few days. Obama spoke the unvarnished truth when he called the need for a record-breaking economic rescue plan a "final judgment." It was a sweeping verdict not just on the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush but also on the Republican deregulatory obsessions that Sen. John McCain has shared broadly. 7)
The Toledo Blade http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081012/OPINION02/810120311(endorsed Kerry in 2004)
Senator Obama already has demonstrated that he is a man of the future in the way he has inspired a new generation of voters to become involved in the political process and to actively strive for a better tomorrow.
As a president from another era suggested, Americans should ask themselves: Am I better off than I was eight years ago? Four years ago? The answer is obvious and, therefore, the option on Nov. 4 is clear.
Historically, Ohio has had a critical role in presidential elections and appears poised once again to be a key in deciding who sits in the Oval Office for the next four years. This is an awesome responsibility, and one that cannot be taken lightly. For the future of Ohio and America, there is only one reasonable choice for president: Barack Obama. 8)
Hawaii Star Bulletin http://archives.starbulletin.com/2008/06/05/editorial/editorial01.html(endorsed Kerry in 2004)
Obama calls for granting mandatory health care for all children and seeking universal coverage by requiring employers to share costs of insuring workers. McCain prefers a more modest proposal to provide tax credits for expenditures on health insurance to make it more affordable.
Of importance in Hawaii, Obama supports Sen. Daniel Akaka's bill for Hawaiian sovereignty, while McCain has said he is "unequivocally opposed." Bush also opposes it and a McCain presidency would extend a likely presidential veto for another four or eight years.
On too many issues, McCain agrees with Bush. Obama is correct in saying that a McCain presidency would amount to a third term of Bush policies. Change is what America needs.
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Seattle Times http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008190807_vesely21.html(endorsed Bush in 2000 and Kerry 2004)
The Seattle Times editorial board will endorse candidates in about 40 races for public office this fall, starting today with the paper's restatement that Sen. Barack Obama is the best choice for president of the United States.
Here are papers that have endorsed McCain
JOHN MCCAIN
CALIFORNIA
The San Francisco Examiner (B): 80,000
COLORADO
The Pueblo Chieftain (B): 47,822
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The Washington Examiner (N/A): 100,073
MARYLAND
The Baltimore Examiner (N/A): 50,000
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Herald (B): 248,988
The Sun, Lowell (B): 50,369
NEW YORK
New York Post (B): 438,558
OHIO
The Courier, Findlay (B): 22,319
WASHINGTON
Spokesman-Review, Spokane (B): 100,760
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