As some of you know, my magazine, E&P, is famous for charting every editorial endorsement for president, gaining a good deal of attention in this matter in 2004 -- we accurately predicted the outcome in 14 of the 15 key battleground states based solely on the endorsements. So far this year Obama leads McCain 19-9 (it's early) and has already picked up a couple of papers that endorsed Bush in 2004.
The latest: Obama picked up five key newspaper endorsements in swing states Wisconsin, Ohio and Missouri today, and three others.
He earned the nod from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Blade of Toledo. the Dayton Daily News, and the Wisconsin State Journal (which backed Bush in 2004) in Madison. The St. Louis daily called McCain, "the incredible shrinking man" who had made a horrific pick for his running mate. Three other major papers in an apparent non-swing state also backed Obama today: The Tennessean in Nashville and the San Bernardino Sun and Fresno Beein California.
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