Originally Posted By: the G-man
I wouldn't get too excited about newspaper endorsements if I were you. As the American Journalism Review points out, "the impact of endorsements on national or even regional elections – contests in which candidates are well-known among voters – is negligible."
  • a Pew Center for the People & the Press study ... which measured media influences on voters during the 2004 presidential campaign, concluded that "newspaper endorsements are also less influential than four years ago, and dissuade as many Americans as they persuade."


In general I agree but this particular endorsement is noted as being an exception to that. The timing & the influence of this endorsement has almost always helped the campaigns in major ways. For example Edwards poll numbers were not so hot until the Register endorsed him for the last presidential election.

Fair play!