Any Web sites out there maintaining a list of newspapers who endorsed Bush in 2000, but who are now endorsing Kerry (or Gore in 2000 but Bush in 2004)?
The Seattle Times (Bush -> Kerry) is one I’m aware of.
The Lone Star Iconoclast in Crawford, Texas endorsed Bush in 2000, and it’s endorsing Kerry this time around. They had major advertisers pull out, they got lots of angry mail, and they got a smattering of death threats. :eek:
Found some more:
Bush 2000 -> Kerry 2004
The Oregonian (Portland): 342,040
The Seattle Times: 237,303
The Day (New London, Conn.): 39,553
The Albuquerque Tribune: 13,536
Gore 2000 -> Bush 2004
None
Complete List:
JOHN KERRY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (G): 418,323
The Philadelphia Inquirer (G): 387.692
Detroit Free Press (G): 354,581
The Oregonian (Portland) (B): 342,040
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (G): 281,198
The Seattle Times (B): 237,303
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (G): 150,901
The Philadelphia Daily News: 139,983
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) (G): 109,592
The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, Calif.) (G): 89,384
Portland Press Herald (Maine) (G): 73,211
The Day (New London, Conn.) (B): 39,553
The Albuquerque Tribune (B): 13,536
Total Pro-Kerry Daily Circ: 2,637,297
GEORGE W. BUSH
Las Vegas Review-Journal (B): 170,061
Tulsa World (Okla.) (B): 139,383
Mobile (Ala.) Register (B): 100,244
The Oakland Press (Pontiac, Mich.): 65,484
The Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain: 52,208
The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) (B): 51,498
Amarillo (Texas) Globe-News (B): 51,105
The Sun (Lowell, Mass.) (B): 50,369
The Courier (Findlay, Ohio) (B): 22,319
The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, Tenn.): 22,057
Total Pro-Bush Daily Circ: 724,728
Funny
The Lone Star Iconoclast endorses Kerry and it’s major news
The Lowell Sun endorses Bush and you barely hear a whisper
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/press_endorsements.html
Kerry has more newspaper endorsements that you listed. NY Times, Boston Globe and quite a few more.
I think you web site was listing the endorsements in swing states only, although they were not that clear that this was the basis of their “complete list”
The Iconclast is in Bush’s “home town,” and endorsed him in 2000. Those two make their reversal amusing news.
AFAIK, The Lowell Sun is neither.
Not that it would make the slightest difference to anybody, but my local weekly, The Daily World in Aberdeen, WA switched from Bush in 2000 to Kerry this time around.
Here’s a different kind of endorsement flip-flop:
The San Francisco Bay Guardian endorsed Nader in 2000, but is endorsing Kerry now.
Ed