Paper after paper endorses Obama
Including the Chicago Tribune – which in doing so, is endorsing a Democratic candidate for the first time in its 161-year history.
This from AP:
“Excerpts from recent newspaper endorsements of the presidential candidates. The Los Angeles Times endorses Democrat Barack Obama, calling him “educated and eloquent, sober and exciting, steady and mature.” The Washington Post calls Obama “the right man for a perilous moment.” The Chicago Tribune, endorsing a Democratic presidential nominee for the first time, expresses “tremendous confidence” in Obama’s “intellectual rigor, his moral compass and his ability to make sound, thoughtful, careful decisions.”
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October 19th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Barack Obama Dominates Newspaper Endorsements…
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 Ci…