# Endorsement Flip-Flops **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 11, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/endorsement-flip-flops/268566 "2004-10-11T03:29:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rillian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rillian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rillian)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/endorsement-flip-flops/268566/1 "2004-10-11T03:29:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/endorsement-flip-flops/268566/2 "2004-10-11T03:49:36Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![Rillian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rillian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rillian)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/endorsement-flip-flops/268566/3 "2004-10-13T01:58:11Z")
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](http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000664121): 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 ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/endorsement-flip-flops/268566/4 "2004-10-20T00:48:30Z")
Funny The Lone Star Iconoclast endorses Kerry and it’s major news The Lowell Sun endorses Bush and you barely hear a whisper ---
**Author:** ![jdc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@jdc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdc)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/endorsement-flip-flops/268566/5 "2004-10-20T03:02:57Z")
[http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/press\_endorsements.html](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” ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/endorsement-flip-flops/268566/6 "2004-10-20T06:10:37Z")
> [@flickster](#): > > The Lone Star Iconoclast endorses Kerry and it’s major news > > The Lowell Sun endorses Bush and you barely hear a whisper 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. ---
**Author:** ![Badge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Badge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badge)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/endorsement-flip-flops/268566/7 "2004-10-20T07:40:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/endorsement-flip-flops/268566/8 "2004-10-20T19:29:50Z")
Here’s a different kind of endorsement flip-flop: The San Francisco Bay Guardian endorsed Nader in 2000, but is endorsing Kerry now. Ed