Suprise Endorsement from Liberal California newspaper for Bush

dsert sun/gogov ^ | October 24, 2004 | dsert sun

[BJungNan]

Surprise Endorsement - The Desert Sun
In what is becoming common in many media markets, one paper is viewed as leaning liberal the other can be counted on to present a rightward view. In a surprise endorsement, The Desert Sun (the liberal one) endorses Bush in a full page editorial.

Note, we are not allowed to link to The Desert Sun but you can find the editorial at this link.

[BJungNan]

I opened the editorial section today and I tell you I was shocked. The other paper in our market, The Press Enterprise, is the one I would expect to endorse Bush but not such a strong one from the Desert Sun. And it is a pretty good one. Makes a good case. Makes sense. Of course, I agree with it.

[Ptarmigan]

Support for Kerry is low even among the Democratic and left circle.

[boberino]

HERE'S ANOTHER SURPRISE. I WAS JUST ABOUT TO POST. THE INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN ...SAN BERNADINO COUNTY.CAIF.HAS ENDORED BUSH. THIS IS A LIBERAL RAG TOO

[cripplecreek]

I have a very liberal uncle who recently changed his support from Kerry to Bush. He says he's waited far too long for John Kerry to come up with a solid plan for the nation. With two weeks to go with no plan from Kerry, my uncle feels that Kerry will freeze in the face of opposition from both sides. He feels that George Bush takes a lot more heat than he really deserves.

Another problem my uncle has is the whole swiftvet controversy. He hasn't been happy with the way the swiftvets, the POWs or the national gaurdsmen have been treated.

I have a feeling that a lot of people are having a lot of the same concerns as my uncle.

[linda11567]

Wow. This is going to be an interesting election. I don't think its going to be as close as they say, especially if we didn't have to worry about vote fraud.

[Not now, Not ever!]

These papers (all 3 of them)have to deal with the fact that their readership has been moving to the right for several decades, they can wake up or be satisfied to be the designated fish wrap.

[Tanniker Smith]

I haven't seen today's NY Daily News yet, but at some point soon, I suspect for the same reasons, Mort Zuckerman will endorse Bush, even as many (or most) or the columnists swing to Kerry.

TS

[wisconsinconservative]

save for later

[BibChr]

I knew this couldn't have been The Sacramento Eff. I'd've had to fall over, dead as Julius Caesar.

Still alive.

Dan

[Maceman]

He hasn't been happy with the way the swiftvets, the POWs or the national gaurdsmen have been treated.

Not only that, but how come Kerry allowed his campaign to be blind-sided by the Swift Boat Veterans -- even though he has known since 1971 that John O'Neil and a whole bunch of disgruntled Viet Nam vets were out there?

How come he didn't have a plan in place to neutralize them even before the primaries were over?

How come it took him two weeks after their first ads hit to come up with a response?

How come when he finally did respond, he attacked the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time by claimin gthat Bush was behind the ads -- even though there is far more evidence tying Sadaam to al Qaeda than there is tying Bush to the SBVT?

If he was too dumb to successfully handle the SBVT, how can he possibly be smart enough to handle al Qaeda, Iran, Syria and N. Korea? If John Kerry is possessed of the superior intelligence with which he is normally credited by the MSM, can anyone -- ANYONE -- point to a single example which would tend to support that assumption?

[granite]

I am in this market as well, and consider the Press-Enterprise very liberal. Riverside County is quite conservative though, as I  you can see. Even I was elected three times.

Registration and Turnout Riverside County
Completed Precincts: 1,093 of 1,093 (100.00%)
2000 RESULTS

	Reg/Turnout	Percent
Total Registration	634,126
Total Turnout	455,077	71.76%
Precincts Turnout	340,408	53.68%
Absentee Turnout	114,669	18.08%

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President and Vice President

Completed Precincts: 1,093 of 1,093 (100.00%)

	Vote Count	Percent
REP - GEORGE W. BUSH/DICK CHENEY	232,029	51.42%
DEM - AL GORE/JOE LIEBERMAN	202,614	44.90%
GRN - RALPH NADER/WINONA LADUKE	11,678	2.59%
RFM - PATRICK J. BUCHANAN/EZOLA FOSTER	2,245	0.50%
LIB - HARRY BROWNE/ART OLIVIER	1,493	0.33%
AIP - HOWARD PHILLIPS/J. CURTIS FRAZIER	749	0.17%
NLW - JOHN HAGELIN/NAT GOLDHABER	432	0.10%
Total	451,240	100.00%

[BJungNan]

These papers (all 3 of them)have to deal with the fact that their readership has been moving to the right for several decades, they can wake up or be satisfied to be the designated fish wrap.

In Palm Springs? Hardly a hot ed of conservatism. I rather suspect the Desert Sun is receive some pretty harsh words from it readers in the form of letters to the editor.

[cripplecreek]

My uncle was in the guards during the Vietnam war and was quite offended by the talk of The guards being a rich kids way out or being equal to AWOL.

My grandfather was a small town electrician raising 5 kids. He wasn't exactly struggling with bags of money.

[Not now, Not ever!]

You are correct, I was merely observing that The Desert Sun seems to have slipped to the right, At least in this endorsement, which was pretty good.

[OldFriend]

Heard a TV ad today. Kerry talking tough on OBL and al qaeda......not a word about Iraq.

[Tribune7]

Thoughtful editors are starting to realize that they need conservative readers.

[Petronski]

PALM SPRINGS, California

[Mjaye]

The Long Beach Press-Telegram also endorsed Bush, wonder of wonders.