General Election

Bush	Gore
Alabama Birmingham News --10/29/00 Birmingham Post-Herald --10/29/00   EWS Mobile Register --10/28/00    Daily 95,182   Sun 115,008 Gadsden Times    Daily 25,317   Sun 27,268	Alabama Huntsville Times --10/29/00    Daily 58,014   Sun 78,925 Montgomery Advertiser --10/23/00    Daily 52,591   Sun 66,056 Decatur Daily --10/22/00   Daily 26,794   Sun 28,679 Anniston Star
	Alaska Anchorage Daily News --10/29/00
Arizona Arizona Republic --10/29/00   Daily 445,322   Sun 559,170	Arizona Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) --10/29/00   Daily 131,659   Sun 164,846 Tucson Citizen --11/2/00
Arkansas Arkansas Democrat-Gazette --11/5/00 +Daily 172,206   Sun 271,145 Southwest Times Record (Fort Smith)   Daily 43,003   Sun  45,718  (Second largest paper in Arkansas; one of those involved described the endorsement as "very weak" and "backhanded.") Benton County Sunday    Daily 11,264   Sun 17,224 KATV Channel 7 (Little Rock) --11/1/00
California San Diego Union-Tribune --10/29/00   Daily 370,395   Sun 439,367 Los Angeles Daily News --10/29/00   Daily 200,387   Sun 210,239 Contra Costa Times --10/29/00   Daily 182,682   Sun 194,887 Press-Enterprise (Riverside) --10/30/00   Daily 166,935   Sun 174,636 Ventura County Star --10/29/00   Daily 96,571   Sun 109,509  EWS North County Times (SD Cnty) --10/29/00  Daily 95,202   Sun 95,942 Bakersfield Californian --11/5/00   Daily 70,123   Sun 83,963 San Gabriel Valley Tribune --10/26/00   Daily 52,520   Sun 55,101 The Desert Sun --11/5/00   Daily 46,949   Sun 49,241 Tri-Valley Herald (Pleasanton)  Daily 43,350   Sun 43,927 Chico Enterprise Record --10/28/00   Daily 33,166   Sun 33,293 Eureka Times-Standard --10/24/00   Daily 19,256   Sun 21,051 Lodi News-Sentinel --11/6/00   Daily 16,947 Vacaville Reporter --10/31/00 Stockton Record Long Beach Press-Telegram Pasadena Star News Redding Record Searchlight --10/29/00   EWS Inland Valley Daily Bulletin	California San Francisco Chronicle --10/22/00 San Francisco Examiner --10/8/00 Sacramento Bee --10/22/00   Daily 289,751   Sun 352,081 ...and (same) Fresno Bee --10/22/00  Daily 156,915   Sun 191,361 ...and (v. similar) Modesto Bee --10/25/00   Daily 83,852   Sun 90,797 San Jose Mercury News --10/29/00   Daily 286,679   Sun 323,481 La Opinion --11/4/00   Daily 117,558   Sun 72,013 Oakland Tribune; Alameda Times Star; The Argus (Fremont-Newark); San Mateo County Times; Daily Review (Hayward) Press Democrat (Santa Rosa) --10/22/00
Colorado Denver Rocky Mountain News --10/29/00   EWS Greeley Tribune Boulder Daily Camera --10/29/00   EWS	Colorado Denver Post --10/29/00 Fort Collins Coloradoan Durango Herald --10/29/00
Connecticut Hartford Courant --10/29/00  * Stamford Advocate  * New Haven Register Connecticut Post Waturbury Republican-American New London Day	Connecticut Danbury News-Times
	Delaware News Journal --11/4/00
District of Columbia Washington Times --10/20/00	District of Columbia Washington Post --10/22/00
Florida Orlando Sentinel --10/29/00Daily252,057   Sun 373,901  Tampa Tribune --10/22/00   Daily199,753   Sun 290,837  Florida Times-Union (J' ville) --11/5/00   Daily170,504   Sun 230,789  Lakeland Ledger --10/22/00   Daily68,735   Sun 83,105* Naples Daily News --10/29/00 Daily 43,749   Sun 54,841  EWS Bradenton Herald --10/29/00   Daily 38,996   Sun 46,800  Stuart News  Daily 34,153   Sun 41,409   EWS Diario Las Américas	Florida Miami Herald --10/29/00 St. Petersburg Times --10/29/00   Daily 307,556   Sun 388,191 South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale) --10/29/00   Daily 238,416   Sun 350,189 Palm Beach Post --11/5/00   Daily 159,275   Sun 202,286 Daytona Beach News-Journal --11/2/00   Daily 95,465   Sun 113,965  Sarasota Herald-Tribune --11/4/00   Daily 94,912   Sun 118,785 Florida Today --10/29/00   Daily 81,854   Sun 106,393 Gainesville Sun Daily 50,205   Sun 57,683 Boca Raton News
Georgia Atlanta Journal --10/19/00 Augusta Chronicle --11/5/00 Savannah Morning News --10/25/00	Georgia Atlanta Constitution --10/20/00
	Hawaii Honolulu Advertiser --10/29/00 Honolulu Star-Bulletin --11/2/00
Idaho Twin Falls Times-News
Illinois Chicago Tribune --10/29/00 Chicago Sun Times --10/29/00 * Daily Herald (Arlington Heights -- Chicago suburban) Springfield State Journal-Register --10/29/00 Rockford Registar Star Bloomington Pantangraph --10/29/00 Decatur Herald & Review Peoria Journal Star --10/29/00 Waukegon News Sun Quincy Herald Whig --10/28/00 Edwardsville Intelligencer	Illinois Daily Southtown (Chicago) --11/1/00
Indiana Indianapolis Star --10/29/00 Fort Wayne News-Sentinel	Indiana The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne) --10/29/00
Iowa Cedar Rapids Gazette Quad City Times	Iowa Des Moines Register --10/29/00 The Hawk Eye (Burlington) --10/29/00
Kansas Wichita Eagle --10/29/00	Kansas Hutchinson News --10/29/00
Kentucky Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer --10/29/00  * Kentucky Daily News (Bowling Green) Kentucky New Era	Kentucky Louisville Courier-Journal --10/22/00 Lexington Herald-Leader
Louisiana Times-Picayune (New Orleans) --10/29/00 The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette)	Louisiana Shreveport Times
Maine Bangor Daily News --11/4/00	Maine Portland Press Herald --10/29/00
	Maryland Baltimore Sun --10/29/00
Massachusetts Boston Herald --10/31/00 Lawrence Eagle-Tribune Worcester Telegram & Gazette --11/2/00 Lowell Sun --10/25/00 Patriot Ledger (Quincy)	Massachusetts Boston Globe --11/3/00
Michigan Detroit News --10/22/00 Grand Rapids Press --10/29/00 Kalamazoo Gazette --10/29/00 Flint Journal --10/30/00 * Ann Arbor News --11/3/00 Daily Tribune (Royal Oak) --11/1/00 Holland Sentinel	Michigan Detroit Free-Press --10/20/00 Macomb Daily --10/29/00 Lansing State Journal --10/29/00 Muskegon Chronicle
Minnesota St. Paul Pioneer Press --10/15/00  *	Minnesota Star Tribune --10/22/00
	Mississippi The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
Missouri Jefferson City News Tribune --11/1/00 Joplin Globe --11/4/00 Columbia Daily Tribune --10/29/00	Missouri St. Louis Post-Dispatch --10/22/00 Kansas City Star --10/29/00 Springfield News-Leader --11/5/00
Montana Billings Gazette --10/28/00	Montana Great Falls Tribune --10/29/00
Nebraska Omaha World-Herald --10/22/00 Lincoln Journal Star --10/23/00
Nevada Las Vegas Review-Journal --10/22/00	Nevada Las Vegas Sun --10/22/00 Reno Gazette Journal --10/30/00
New Hampshire The Union-Leader --11/4/00	New Hampshire The Telegraph --11/5/00 Concord Monitor --11/5/00 Keene Sentinel Portsmouth Herald --10/22/00
New Jersey The Courier-Post (Camden) * Asbury Park Press The Trentonian Atlantic City Press --11/3/00	New Jersey The Record (Bergen County) --10/27/00 The Times (Trenton) --10/29/00 Montclair Times --11/2/00
New Mexico Albuquerque Journal --10/29/00 Las Cruces Sun-News Current-Argus (Carlsbad) --11/2/00 Farmington Daily Times --11/5/00 Roswell Daily Record Deming Headlight -- 11/3/00 Albuquerque Tribune EWS	New Mexico Santa Fe New Mexican --10/22/00
New York New York Post --10/23/00 Herald American (Syracuse) --10/29/00 The Journal News (White Plains) Star-Gazette (Elmira)	New York New York Times --10/29/00 Newsday --10/29/00 Daily News --10/29/00 Buffalo News --10/29/00 Albany Times Union --10/22/00 Ithaca Journal --10/31/00 Daily Star (Oneonta) --11/4/00 East Hampton Star --11/2/00 Staten Island Advance --10/30/00 Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester) New York Observer
North Carolina Winston-Salem Journal --10/29/00 High Point Enterprise Hickory Daily Record --10/27/00	North Carolina The News & Observer --11/5/00 Charlotte Observer --10/29/00 News & Record (Greensboro) --11/5/00 Wilmington Star --10/31/00
North Dakota Fargo Forum --11/5/00	North Dakota Grand Forks Herald --10/29/00
Ohio Cincinnati Enquirer --10/29/00 Cincinnati Post --10/30/00   EWS Cleveland Plain Dealer --10/22/00  * Columbus Dispatch --10/22/00 Canton Repository --10/29/00  * Marietta Times --11/4/00 Findlay Courier Youngstown Vindicator Warren Tribune-Chronicle	Ohio Toledo Blade --10/29/00 Akron Beacon Journal --10/22/00 Athens News --10/16/00 Dayton Daily News
Oklahoma The Oklahoman --10/29/00 Tulsa World --10/24/00
Oregon The Oregonian --10/22/00  * The Bend Bulletin --10/29/00 Albany Democrat-Herald --10/29/00	Oregon Register Guard (Eugene) -10/22/00 Corvallis Gazette Times --10/29/00 The Skanner
Pennsylvania The Morning Call (Allentown) --10/29/00  * Scranton Times --10/29/00 Erie Times-News  --10/27/00 * Harrisburg Patriot News Altoona Mirror Pittsburgh Tribune Review Johnstown Tribune Democrat * The Herald-Standard	Pennsylvania Philadelphia Inquirer --10/29/00 Philadelphia Daily News --10/27/00 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette --10/29/00 Beaver County Times --10/26/00 York Daily Record --10/29/00
Rhode Island Providence Journal --10/29/00	Rhode Island Providence Phoenix --11/2-11/9/00
South Carolina The Post & Courier --11/5/00 The State (Columbia) --10/29/00 Greenville News	South Carolina The Sun News (Myrtle Beach) The Herald (Rock Hill) Herald-Journal (Spartanburg) --10/22/00
South Dakota Rapid City Journal --11/4/00
Tennessee Memphis Commercial Appeal --10/29/00   EWS Knoxville News-Sentinel --10/29/00   EWS Chattanooga Free Press --10/22/00	Tennessee Chattanooga Times --10/24/00 Tennessean Jackson Sun
Texas (early voting begins 10/23/00) Dallas Morning News --10/22/00 San Antonio Express-News --10/22/00 Austin American-Statesman --10/22/00  * Houston Chronicle --list 10/26/00 (text 11/2/00) Fort Worth Star-Telegram --10/22/00 Lubbock Avalanche-Journal --10/22/00 Corpus Christi Caller-Times   EWS Amarillo Globe-News Galveston County Daily News --10/31/00 Abilene Reporter-News --10/29/00   EWS San Angelo Standard Times --10/29/00   EWS	Texas Longview News Journal
	Vermont Rutland Herald --11/01/00
Virginia Richmond Times-Dispatch --10/22/00 Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg) --10/29/00	Virginia Virginian Pilot --10/29/00 Vienna Times
Washington The Seattle Times --10/22/00  * Vancouver Columbian --10/22/00  * The Spokesman-Review (Spokane) --10/8/00 Walla Walla Union-Bulletin --10/29/00 South County Journal (Kent) --10/22/00 Skagit Valley Herald --11/3/00 Tri-City Herald (Kennewick, Pasco, Richland) --10/15/00  * The Sun (Bremerton) --10/29/00   EWS	Washington Seattle Post-Intelligencer --10/22/00 Tacoma News Tribune --10/29/00 Everett Herald --10/22/00 The Olympian --11/4/00
West Virginia Charleston Daily Mail --10/30/00 Dominion Post (Morgantown) --11/3/00	West Virginia Charleston Gazette --10/10/00 Herald-Dispatch (Huntington) --11/4/00
Wisconsin Source: WisPolitics.com Wisconsin State Journal --10/29/00 Green Bay Press Gazette --10/27/00 La Crosse Tribune --10/31/00 Beloit Daily News The Chippewa Herald The Janesville Gazette Marinette Eagle Herald Marshfield News Herald Oshkosh Northwestern Stevens Point Journal Wausau Daily Herald	Wisconsin Source: WisPolitics.com Capital Times (Madison)--11/3/00 Appleton Post Crescent Ashland Daily Press Fond du Lac Reporter Kenosha News Racine Journal Times Sheboygan Press
National Investor's Business Daily National Review --11/6/00 Human Events ("The National Conservative Weekly") --8/4/00	National Financial Times --11/2/00 The New Republic --10/30/00 Glamour --11/00

Ralph Nader	Pat Buchanan
San Francisco Bay Guardian L.A. Weekly (conditional) --10/27-11/2/00 Colorado Daily Colorado Springs Independent --10/26/00 Aspen Times Winsted Journal (CT) Hartford Advocate (CT) Westchester County Weekly (CT) Lancaster Times (MA) Clinton Courier (MA) Worcester Magazine (MA) Detroit Metro Times --10/26/00 Michigan Citizen Village Voice (NY) --11/1-11/7/00 Metroland (NY) CITY (NY) Cleveland Free Times --11/1-11/7/00 City Beat (OH, KY) In Pittsburgh Amery Free Press (WI)   Split Gore-Nader The Austin Chronicle --11/3/00	The Spotlight
No Endorsement	Specialty Press
Example of papers that do not endorse candidates or do not endorse in the presidential race or whose editorial boards were unable to reach a consensus: Alaska Fairbanks Daily News-Miner  ["I'm sure at some point in the News-Miner's 97-year history we've made endorsements, but not in recent memory. It never came up this year."] Arkansas Morning News of Northwest Arkansas  Jonesboro Sun  Pine Bluff Commercial [Managing editor Tom McDonald and publisher Charles A. Berry differed; Berry backed Bush, McDonald, Gore.  "I'm fortunate enough to have a publisher who will allow me my view and won't force me to write editorials I don't believe in," McDonald stated later.] California Los Angeles Times --10/29/00 Santa Barbara News-Press --11/05/00 Iowa Globe Gazette (Mason City) --11/05/00 Waterloo Courier --11/05/00 Kentucky Paducah Sun [generally doesn't endorse, although exceptions made] The Daily Independent (Ashland) [the six-member editorial board divided three to three.  Opinion page editor John Cannon said that the board voted several times but remained "hopelessly split."  The paper ran a non-endorsement on Oct. 22; this was the first time it had not made a presidential endorsement in at least three decades.] Louisiana The Advocate (Baton Rouge) ["For some years, we have had a policy of not endorsing in any race...  The only exception to the no-endorsement policy in recent years was the David Duke/Edwin Edwards race for governor." Bill Bankston] Maine Lewiston Sun-Journal  ["This newspaper simply has a long tradition of not endorsing candidates for any office at any level...   We do editorialize on practically every other subject under the Sun.  People here can only remember twice that we endorsed an individual, once for Olympia Snowe because she was a hometown person and once for Gov. King..."  --Rex Rhoades, Executive Editor] Mississippi Sun Herald (Biloxi) --10/15/00 Texas Odessa American --10/31/00 Vermont Burlington Free Press ["We felt that neither of the candidates merited our endorsement." --Stephen Kiernan, editorial page editor (post-election interview)] Virginia Daily Press (Newport News) --11/05/00 Wisconsin Milwaukee Journal Sentinel --11/04/00	Gore Afro-American Newspaper (Baltimore/DC) Chicago Defender Al Día (Philadelphia, PA) --11/2-11/9/00 El Hispano (Upper Darby, PA) --11/2-11/8/00 Forward (NY) --10/27/00 Atlanta Jewish Times Chicago Jewish Star Detroit Jewish News Washington Jewish Week (DC) Houston Voice --10/13/00 Seattle Gay News --10/27/00 Windy City Times (Chicago) --11/1/00 Philadelphia Gay News Indian Country Today --11/1/00 Bush The Jewish Press (NY) --11/3/00

 

Notes 1. Greg Mitchell.  "E&P/TIPP Poll: Bird in the Hand for Bush?" Editor & Publisher, Nov. 6, 2000. This article, based on a survey of 800 editors and publishers (193 responses), provides a useful picture of newspaper endorsements.  For example, the survey found that 4 of 5 responding editors and publishers believed that "endorsing candidates 'is an important responsibility of newspapers.'"  Overall, at least 3 of 4 papers made an endorsement in the presidential race, but the percentage was closer  to 2 of 3 for small newspapers, defined as those with less than 50,000 circulation.  The survey also found that a higher percentage of smaller papers endorsed Gov. Bush (3 to 1 for Bush) than did larger papers. Medium, 50,000-100,000 circulation papers went 5 to 3 for Bush, while large sized papers (circulations greater than 100,000) went 5 to 4 for Bush. 2. "*" indicates the paper endorsed Clinton-Gore in 1996. 3. "+" according to the Bush campaign, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has never endorsed a presidential candidate. 4. EWS=E.W. Scripps Co.  The E.W. Scripps Co. chain mandates use of its endorsement for president in its 21 dailies.  [Abilene Reporter-News, The Albuquerque Tribune, Anderson Independent-Mail, Birmingham Post-Herald, The Cincinnati Post (including The Kentucky Post, an edition), The Commercial Appeal, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Daily Camera (Boulder), Denver Rocky Mountain News, Evansville Courier & Press, The Gleaner (Henderson, Ky.), The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Naples Daily News (including Bonita Daily News, an edition), Redding Record Searchlight, San Angelo Standard-Times, The Stuart News, The Tribune (Ft. Pierce), The Sun (Bremerton), Ventura County Star, Vero Beach Press Journal, Wichita Falls Times Record News].  The endorsement was determined through a group discussion of about 20 editors and executives of newspapers owned by Scripps.

 

Copyright 2000 Democracy in Action/Eric M. Appleman

Primaries
Circulation figures from Audit Bureau of Circulations (for 6 months as of Sept. 30, 1999) or from the individual newspapers.

Bush March 14, 2000 Contests Tennessee Chattanooga Free Press (3/5/00) Texas Dallas Morning News (3/5/00) paid circ. M-Thu. 490,249, Fri. 592,807, Sat. 557,486, Sun. 781,959 Austin American Statesman (2/27/00) paid circ. M-Sat. 184,825, Sun. 241,984   March 7, 2000 Contests Georgia Atlanta Journal Constitution (3/3/00) Ohio The Plain Dealer (3/5/00) Ohio's largest paper.  Cleveland, paid circ M-Sat. 386,312, Sun. 500,563   Michigan (Feb. 22, 2000 Primary) The Detroit News (2/13/00) South Carolina (Feb. 19, 2000 Primary) The State (2/13/00) South Carolina's largest newspaper, paid circ. daily 118,298, Sun.156,893 The Greenville News (2/13/00) paid circ. M-F 97,655, Sat. 111,168, Sun. 133,167 New Hampshire (Feb. 1, 2000 Primary) The Caledonian-Record (1/25/00) Northeast Vermont and the North Country of NH.  Total circulation 11,500; NH circulation is a little more than a third of that. The Eagle-Tribune (1/23/00) Lawrence, MA; circ. in NH of about 16,500 Foster's Daily Democrat (1/13/00) and The Citizen (1/13/00) Dover, paid circ. daily 25,027, Sun. 30,417 Laconia, paid circ. daily 9,848, Sun. 30,417 Iowa (Jan. 24, 2000 Caucuses) Sioux City Journal (1/23/00) Sioux City (Woodbury County), pd. circ. daily 48,175, Sun.  46,662 The Messenger (1/23/00) Fort Dodge (Webster County); pd. circ. daily 18,659, Sun. 21,387                 No Decision Arizona Republic (2/20/00) paid circ. M-F 433,296, Sat. 475,262, Sun. 557,788

McCain March 7, 2000 Contests California  San Francisco Chronicle (3/2/00) San Jose Mercury News (2/23/00) paid circ. M-F 285,848, Sat. 282,413, Sun. 326,825 Riverside Press-Enterprise paid circ. Mon.-Sat. 165,043, Sun. 171,813 Modesto Bee paid circ. Mon.-Sat. 84,287, Sun. 91,157 Sacramento Bee (2/13/00) and Fresno Bee (2/14/00) Sacramento Bee paid circ. Mon.-Sat. 291,007, Sun. 349,870 Fresno Bee paid circ. Mon.-Sat. 156,466, Sun. 193,062 Connecticut The Hartford Courant (2/27/00) Connecticut's largest newspaper, paid circ. M-Sat. 207,511, Sun. 296,505 Maine  Maine Sunday Telegram [Portland Press Herald] (2/27/00) Maine's largest newspaper, paid circ. M-Sat. 76,275, Sun. 124,529 Maryland Baltimore Sun (2/27/00) Maryland's largest newspaper, paid circ. M-Sat. 314,819, Sun. 479,636 New York  New York Times (3/5/00) paid circ. M-F 1,086,293, Sat. 1,035,734, Sun. 1,654,531 New York Daily News (3/5/00) paid circ. M-F 701,831, Sat. 575,002, Sun. 790,911 Newsday (3/5/00) paid circ. M-F 574,941, Sat. 454,702, Sun. 673,830 New York Post (2/27/00) paid circ. M-F 438,158, Sat. 356,558, Sun. 360,945 Times Union (2/27/00) Albany, paid circ. M-Sat. 99,051, Sun. 147,041 Staten Island Advance paid circ. M-Sat. 66,861, Sun. 86,564 Rhode Island The Providence Journal (3/5/00) Rhode Island's largest newspaper, paid circ. M-Sat. 166,888, Sun. 237,629 Washington (Feb. 29, 2000 Primary) Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2/27/00) Arizona (Feb. 22, 2000 Primary) Arizona Daily Star (1/30/00) Tucson--Southern Arizona's largest newspaper Tribune newspapers--East Valley Tribune, Scottsdale Tribune (1/29/00) Michigan (Feb. 22, 2000 Primary) Detroit Free Press (2/11/00) Grand Rapids Press (2/9/00) Grand Rapids (Kent County); paid cir. daily 141,643, Sun.193,838 South Carolina (Feb. 19, 2000 Primary) The Post and Courier (2/19/00) Charleston; paid circ. Mon.-Sat. 105,296, Sun. 118,077 New Hampshire (Feb. 1, 2000 Primary) The Conway Daily Sun (1/31/00) Mount Washington Valley, free Mon.-Sat., circ. 15,000 Derry News (1/28/00) published Tues. and Fri. paid circ. just over 10,000 Boston Herald (1/28/00) The Mountain Ear (1/27/00) Conway, published Thurs., 12,000 issues The Berlin Reporter (1/23/00) paid circ. Mon.-Sat. around 5,000 The Telegraph (1/23/00) Nashua, paid circ. 28,061, Sun. 33,898 Concord Monitor (1/23/00) Concord, paid circ. daily 21,310, Sun. 23,150 The Valley News (1/24/00) Lebanon/Hanover, paid circ. daily 17,618, Sun. 17,519 Eagle-Times (1/20/00) Claremont, paid circ. daily 8,263, Sun. 9,308 Boston Globe (1/16/00) Littleton Courier Granite State News, Carroll County Independent, Meredith News, Plymouth Record Enterprise, Rochester & Dover Times (1/12/00) (weeklies) Portsmouth Herald (1/11/00) Portsmouth; paid circ. daily 14,389, Sun. 19,476) also, same ownership, the Hampton Union and the News-Letter (Exeter) Also The New Republic (Issue Date 3/6/00)