Bloodless Coup

A Map of Newspaper Endorsements

Via Sullivan, this is interesting. Preditcably, Obama is winning more endorsements from the nation's bigger papers, And there are more papers that are endorsing Obama this year after endorsing George Bush in 2004 than there are papers that are endorsing McCain this year after endorsing John Kerry in 2004. But McCain has won several endorsements too. If you look over McCain's endorsers - the San Diego Union-Tribune, The (Columbia) State, the New York Post, the Boston Herald, the San Francisco Examiner, the DC and Baltimore Examiners, the Columbus Dispatch, the San Antonio Express-News, the Dallas Morning News, the Detroit News, the Tampa Tribune - you'll see a lot of papers that are traditionally friendly to Republican candidates. But some prominent Republican-friendly papers aren't backing the Arizona senator. For example, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times are endorsing the Democratic nominee for president for the first time in the history of those papers. That's worth noting given the importance of the Chicago Tribune to Republican politics, historically, and the fact that it's the biggest paper in the country that's based between DC and California.