Newspaper endorsements map

27 October 2008 @ 1:00 pm in Asides, Mormon, Politics | 3 comments

Nifty info-graphic map of newspaper endorsements from across the country as compared to how the state voted. Not too surprisingly, Sen. Obama leads Sen McCain 135 – 52. I’m surprised McCain has even that much.

The map also compares the newspapers’ previous endorsements. While I thought it was silly to make a big deal that the ever-reliable liberal Salt Lake Tribune endorsed Obama as and take it as a sign that even the Mormons are going for him, I was shocked to be reminded that the paper did endorse Pres. Bush in 2004.

Regardless, I don’t think McCain’s overlooking of a VP Romney is what drove the Trib to support hope and change.

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  1. David B’s avatar

    David B on 27 October 2008 at 8:35 pm

    I’m shocked–shocked!–to learn that dailies published in big cities lean toward Obama. Cities, for the Democrat? Who knew?

    Also, the Tribune’s editorial pages aren’t nearly as left-leaning as people on both ends of the spectrum like to think. Yeah, it looks like a left tilt compared to the hard-right lean of the Deseret News, but the Tribune has at most a center-right op-ed page.

  2. Jed Sundwall’s avatar

    Jed Sundwall on 28 October 2008 at 7:28 pm

    Interesting piece from the Politico on why McCain gets no love from the media.

    The pith: “As it happens, McCain’s campaign is going quite poorly and Obama’s is going well. Imposing artificial balance on this reality would be a bias of its own.”

    I can’t wait to see how Utah votes. I don’t expect it to go blue, but It hasn’t been polled in over a month and I imagine the race has tightened there a bit.

  3. David H. Sundwall’s avatar

    David H. Sundwall on 31 October 2008 at 9:11 am

    I wasn’t really trying to point out media bias. Editorial pages are different from the front page after all. Although I am a charter member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, constantly complaining about the media is about as useful as pointing out that the sky is blue.

    David B-

    That’s funny about your take on the Trib and DesNews. The Trib may be center-left, but the DesNews cannot be hard-right. Maybe that reveals more about where we are.

    Jed-

    I thought that Politico article was ridiculous. As bad as I may think an Obama presidency may be, I think the damage the media has done to their credibility will be perhaps be as bad or worse. Their bias has become blatant cheerleading. As bad as we are told McCain is said to be doing (as Politico suggests), the polls don’t quite agree. And for the media to say that McCain is not doing well easily becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.