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As the runoff in the Georgia Senate race gets going, here are the newspaper endorsements from the main election:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Martin
Macon Telegraph - Chambliss
Savannah Morning News - Chambliss
Augusta Chronicle - Chambliss
And the Savannah Morning News has re-endorsed Chambliss in the runoff. (h/t Georgia Politics Unfiltered). We'll track the other endorsements as they come in.
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Nobody knows if newspaper endorsements actually make a difference with voters. You can find arguments going both ways.
DemConWatch will be tracking the endorsements for each candidate up until election day. We will link to the endorsement story whenever possible.
As of 11/2, among the top 100 papers, Obama has been endorsed by papers with a circulation of 16.5 Million, McCain by papers with a circulation of 4.8 Million, and papers with a circulation of 3.2 Million have announced they will not be endorsing a candidate.
We have also list the top 100 newspapers by circulation who have not yet endorsed a candidate. (Rankings of newspapers which have endorsed in parenthesis.)
When we're able to we will add a (D) for papers that endorsed Kerry in 2004, an (R) for papers that endorsed Bush and an (N) for papers that did not endorse. If you know who a paper endorsed in 2004 please add it to the comments.
Feel free to let us know about any endorsements we don't list.
We will add any interesting articles we find regarding each endorsement as an asterisk.
And as always... you can comment on the lists and your feelings on who endorses whom.
And don't forget to check out our Senate Endorsement list.
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Yesterday, we posted the Wasilla newspaper endorsement of John McCain. I finally had a chance to read it in full, and this caught my eye:As many have turned a tabloid eye to McCain’s running mate in the weeks leading up to the election, we urge voters to remember that McCain, not Palin, is the Republican candidate for president, and it’s because of McCain’s proven leadership and integrity we urge Alaska and the Mat-Su to vote McCain. (Emphasis mine.)
It appears that even the home town news can't endorse Spunky with a straight face.
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Wasilla's Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman has endorsed John McCain for President.
Unfortunately for John and Sarah it's not a daily so we won't put it on our Newspaper Endorsement List. Obama leads 220-75.Choosing the leader of the free world is an important responsibility, one we all share Nov. 4.
Electing a new president of the United States is heady stuff and should never be taken lightly. For Alaskans and voters in the Mat-Su, this year’s general election will also be historic as we have the privilege to vote on a presidential ticket that includes a local, home-grown candidate.
Since her announcement Aug. 29 as Sen. John McCain’s running mate on the Republican ticket, Gov. Sarah Palin has dominated the political headlines. From her personal life to her sudden rise into the national spotlight, America and the media cannot seem to get enough Palin.While the clamor over Palin has been revealing and entertaining, it’s time for voters to focus on the choice we have to lead the United States for the next four years.
We endorse John McCain as that leader.
The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman is a local Alaska newspaper published every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday
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This is not an editorial, but it is an opinion piece in the Philadelphia Daily News. It captures not only a number of things people don't often bring up about the urban vs. rural culture wars, but it truly has a Philly tone. It's reprinted in its entirety, including the title.
CANDIDATE McCain: We've been bothered by your support of and strategy for the Iraq war, but we're more troubled by your support for the domestic war your campaign has declared. That would be the culture war between small towns and big cities.
If you're hoping to win Pennsylvania, or at least this part of it, you should call for a cease-fire. For one thing, this isn't a war you can win. Not with 80 percent of the country's population living in metropolitan areas.
At the Republican convention and at rallies around the country, your running mate has been vocal about this division. She recently said: "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hardworking, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans..."
It's easy to romanticize small towns, especially if you watch Turner Classic Movies. We can imagine the idea of a slower pace, a place where Andy Griffith greets Donna Reed each morning at the pie shop, where men join the volunteer fire department and the social highlight is going to the library.
Senator, you like to insist when you're bashing your opponent that you're just speaking the facts. So here are some facts:
Methamphetamine use, one of the country's top drug problems, is more prevalent among rural youth; according to research from the Rural Health Research & Policy Centers, youth adults in small rural areas use meth twice as much as their urban counterparts.
Rural America's youth have a serious substance-abuse problem when it comes to alcohol, too.
The highest birth rates among the unwed are in two states that have high rural populations, Mississippi and New Mexico.
Rural populations show a higher incidence of heart disease, respiratory disease, disability associated with chronic health conditions, and obesity.
Researchers are also concerned that child obesity is rising faster in rural communities in several states, including Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Michigan, West Virginia, and North Carolina.
Of course, cities have problems, too. But it's clear we contribute far more to the economy than our rural neighbors. According to the Brookings Institution, the top 100 metropolitan areas are home to 68 percent of America's jobs and the origin of 75 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. Cities are less dependent on foreign oil, too, since so many of us take mass transit, or even walk to work. As for patriotism, well, guess where the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and the Constitution Center live?
And that reminds us: Among the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson was famously not a big-city guy. But Ben Franklin — who, by the way, invented the library, and established the first volunteer fire department among other innovations — was a Philly guy, and he was also at home in London and Paris. He also said that we must all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Think about that next time you dis our cities.
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Following on the lead of our Presidential Newspaper Endorsement List, here's a list of Newspaper Endorsements in key Senate races.
All papers have also endorsed the same party's Presidential candidate unless noted with a (o), (m), or (n)-no endorsement.
Feel free to let us know about any endorsements we don't list. We will add any interesting articles we find regarding each endorsement as an asterisk. And as always... you can comment on the lists and your feelings on who endorses whom.
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