New York Observer: Barack Obama For President: The Newest Deal
"The times call for a leader in tune with the America that is to come, a president who understands that the problems of today and tomorrow require us to think new thoughts. Barack Obama understands that we must restore our American democracy and move forward, as President Roosevelt planned to say in his last speech, 'with a strong and active faith.'" [Permalink]

Springfield Republican (MA): Our presidential pick in November election
"One can easily imagine that Democrats, with increased majorities in both houses of Congress, will be legislating like it's 1933, and that is not what this nation needs at this time. (Whether the nation needed it in 1933 is a topic for another day.) McCain will keep us safe, not only from al-Qaida and its sympathizers, but also from the excesses of some of the most liberal members of the Congress." [Permalink]

Alabama Press-Register: McCain demonstrates he's the better leader
"We fear Sen. Obama, with his slight resume and detached, ultra-cautious style, serves as a blank screen upon which many of his supporters project their warmest and fuzziest conceptions of themselves. No one would mistake Sen. McCain for a messianic figure, but he is a tough, battle-scarred, stout-hearted leader. The country will need his kind of leadership over the next four years." [Permalink]

Newsday (NY): Newsday editorial board's 2008 endorsements
"McCain has been an outstanding public servant. He responded heroically when held captive in Vietnam. He clearly loves his country. But during this campaign he hasn't given the nation any compelling reason to make him president. Obama has advanced big themes at a time when the nation faces big challenges. We believe he is ready to be the president of the United States. This editorial board endorses Barack Obama." [Permalink]

Tulsa World (OK): For John McCain
"If Obama is elected, we will honestly wish him the best of luck, as we know McCain will. Our nation’s political debates are harsh at times, but that stridency doesn’t prevent us from gathering around the eventual winner with the unifying pledge: We are all Americans now. Let us move forward together. Since 1940 the Tulsa World has endorsed Republicans in presidential elections. This is not because the Tulsa World is a partisan newspaper -- indeed we have endorsed Democrats more often than not in local elections -- but because in each election the Republican has most closely reflected the values we want in the nation’s top office. That is as true this time as it has been in the past. " [Permalink]

National Review: The Choice
"McCain has a solid record of opposing economically damaging tax increases. He has always opposed abortion. He has advanced a creative free-market health-care policy, even if he has not done much to defend it against Obama’s dishonest attacks. He is a scourge of wasteful spending and a resolute free trader. He says that he will look for judges who have demonstrated their fidelity to the Constitution as written. We have our differences with McCain, as do most conservatives, on such issues as immigration and stem cells. On each of these issues, however, Obama is at least as mistaken. We have no doubt that if McCain is president we will find much to criticize. But we will be confident that we have the right commander-in-chief and that liberals do not have a free hand to remake our country. In this election we support Senator McCain and urge all conservatives to do so as well." [Permalink]

Arizona Daily Star: Barack Obama for president
"This moment in history requires courage to change. Our nation must find a way to restore the confidence that our government is of the people, by the people, for the people -- all of our people. We share Obama's vision of America. And we share his urgency." [Permalink]

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: For president: Elect John McCain
"The liberal tutorial is that Sen. Obama is a visionary, a man of hope, if not the political equivalent of the Second Coming. And a plurality of the student body appears to accept this at face value. But Obama has sparse political experience, no executive experience, no leadership experience, really, and woefully little experience at much of anything." [Permalink]

Nature: America's choice
"The Oval Office is not a debating chamber, nor is it a faculty club. [...] But a commitment to seeking good advice and taking seriously the findings of disinterested enquiry seems an attractive attribute for a chief executive. [...] This journal does not have a vote, and does not claim any particular standing from which to instruct those who do. But if it did, it would cast its vote for Barack Obama." [Permalink]

Economist: It's time -- America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world
"There is no getting around the fact that Mr Obama's résumé is thin for the world’s biggest job. But the exceptionally assured way in which he has run his campaign is a considerable comfort. It is not just that he has more than held his own against Mr McCain in the debates. A man who started with no money and few supporters has out-thought, out-organised and outfought the two mightiest machines in American politics -- the Clintons and the conservative right." [Permalink]

Seed Magazine: Barack Obama for President
"Sen. Obama's embrace of transparency and evidence-based decision-making, his intelligence and curiosity echo this new way of looking at the world. And that is what we should be weighing in the voting booth. For his positions and, even more, for his way of coming to them, we endorse Barack Obama for President of the United States." [Permalink]

Boston Phoenix: Obama for president
"The challenge facing the next president will be the greatest in recent memory: to restore the nation’s international standing while simultaneously rebuilding a shell-shocked economy. So great is the job ahead, it is difficult not to imagine that an Obama presidency at times might falter. But Obama’s energy, eloquence, intelligence, and temperament make him the candidate best equipped to inspire our nation and wrestle with the future." [Permalink]

South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Make it President Barack Obama
"Remember 'mission accomplished' and 'bring it on'? America has had enough of false bravado, gambles and brinksmanship. The country needs steady leadership, not a reckless decider. Someone who inspires, not divides. America did not find a uniter in George W. Bush. It should look for it in a President Barack Obama." [Permalink]

Washington Times: McCain for president
"By contrast, Mr. McCain's experience is impressive. In the Navy, he commanded pilots amid the boom of enemy guns and, as a prisoner, suffered five years of torture and trial that would wreck a lesser man. As a leader, he has bucked president and party while reaching out to old enemies, like Vietnam and Sen. Ted Kennedy." [Permalink]

Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Recommendation: President of the United States
"John McCain's love of country and passion for public service are indisputable. He can never be thanked enough for the suffering and sacrifice he endured on behalf of his fellow soldiers during his honorable and heroic military service. In a different time and under different circumstances, he likely would have been our choice for president. But 2008 is not his time. " [Permalink]

The New Republic: Obama for President
"You can already grasp the political benefits of this style. It's striking how many conservatives have complimented Obama, even those who oppose him. No less than Charles Krauthammer has declared that he possesses a 'first-class intellect and a first-class temperament.' His appeal to the right has everything to do with his detached style. Obama has even been described as a Burkean. Unlike Bush, he actually listens to those with whom he vehemently disagrees; and, in the course of debating John McCain, he frequently, and without hesitation, voiced agreement." [Permalink]

The Journal News (Westchester, NY): Our recommendation for president
"The recent events compel us to wonder how the Republican ticket might have prospered had McCain added someone with real business heft, perhaps former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. No doubt, McCain would have helped himself, just as Obama helped Obama by picking as his running mate Sen. Joe Biden, an authority on foreign affairs. Another matter for a contemplative McCain to ponder, when his running mate's 15 minutes have run their course. By then, we hope that America will have moved on." [Permalink]

Syracuse Post-Standard: Obama for President: The Illinois senator offers the best hope for America in a troubled time
"[Obama] has consistently shown an impressive, nuanced grasp of issues both domestic and foreign. And he has shown an uncanny ability to inspire people, both in America and abroad. Combined with his call for greater service to country, he has the potential to reinvigorate a dispirited nation -- especially its youth, who have been excited by Obama as by no other presidential candidate in recent history." [Permalink]

Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ): Barack Obama for president
"Last summer, before the economic crisis, Obama said he had chosen to seek the presidency at this moment in history because he was convinced 'we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together -- unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction -- towards a better future for our children and our grandchildren.' We believe Barack Obama offers the best hope for what he has called the promise of our ideals at a time when we most need to reaffirm what it means to be Americans." [Permalink]

Providence Journal (RI): Editorial: Obama for president
"The next president will have to deal with a Congress that, although almost certainly Democratic, will sometimes want to go its own way. And all successful American politicians must be willing to shift course and endlessly experiment in that broad center that Americans want to stay in." [Permalink]

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY): Obama and Biden can help restore America's greatness
"Cleaning up the mess left behind by George W. Bush won't be easy. But Obama vows to bring American troops home from Iraq within 16 months. He'd also bring longtime allies back into the fold and strengthen diplomatic ties where there are kinks." [Permalink]

Grand Rapids Press (MI): For president -- John McCain
"The next president will face a deepening economic crisis at home, and the challenge abroad to carefully extricate the country from the war in Iraq while finding a new strategy to fight a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan. National security has receded in the face of the country's Wall Street woes. But extremist forces continue to lurk, waiting to strike. The next great crisis for the United States may be the one nobody foresees. That calls for a leader who is tested and battle-hardened." [Permalink]

Richmond Times-Dispatch: Time for McCain
"McCain seeks sensible, incremental changes to make health care more available and more affordable, while avoiding Obama's magical claims about reducing [...] On this issue, the Arizona senator has suffered unfairly because his plan is nuanced and realistic while his opponent's relies on demagogy and outlandish promises." [Permalink]

Harrisburg Patriot-News (PA): Obama shows temperament, judgment to be a good president
" If Palin's selection energized the GOP's conservative base, her thin resume called into question her readiness to assume the presidency if need be, the primary duty of the vice president. To put someone in a position for which she is unprepared is not only unfair to that person, but reckless in its implications for the country's governance. Obama meanwhile chose a running mate, the long-serving U.S. senator from Delaware, Joe Biden, with vast knowledge of both domestic issues and foreign policy, experience that would well serve an Obama administration. " [Permalink]

The Oklahoman: Experience, toughness make McCain best choice
"Yet in a sense, all are secondary to the unique obligation a president bears to provide crisis leadership. McCain is older and, we think, wiser in the ways of the world. He has seen much more of it than his younger opponent. His real-world experience goes beyond the world of politics. He has seen evil up close and knows the horror of war." [Permalink]

Birmingham News: Both candidates for president embody the American dream and both are capable of running the country, but we prefer John McCain
"In Obama's soaring rhetoric, he is a postpartisan centrist willing to work with all comers to get things done. But his record in his sole term as a U.S. senator shows, as The Economist magazine put it recently, he "has never once in his career said boo to a Democratic goose." Obama has voted with his party 97 percent of the time; he is more Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid than McCain is Bush. " [Permalink]

Mobile Press-Register (AL): McCain demonstrates he's the better leader
"Sen. McCain lives up to the standard set by his political idol, Theodore Roosevelt. Irascible and moralistic at times, at other times modest and conciliatory, he is always the 'man in the arena,' daring to do 'mighty things.' We fear Sen. Obama, with his slight resume and detached, ultra-cautious style, serves as a blank screen upon which many of his supporters project their warmest and fuzziest conceptions of themselves." [Permalink]

Louisville Courier-Journal: Barack Obama for president
"The next president will follow one of the nation's most disastrous presidencies, and he will face grave challenges on multiple domestic and foreign fronts. Sen. Obama does not have all the answers, and in some areas we wish he had offered more specifics. None of these problems will be easily solved. Budget constraints would force him to scale back some initiatives. But he thinks along promising lines. And though a Democrat, his instincts to go beyond the Democratic-Republican, liberal-conservative battle lines that have paralyzed Washington are essential to building coalitions for progress and change." [Permalink]

Times-Picayune (LA): Barack Obama for president
"The image of the United States abroad has suffered, largely as a result of the war in Iraq. Still, there is a huge reservoir of good will toward this country. The world looks on in awe as America, which believes that humble circumstances, class and race should never trump intelligence and hard work, considers the possible election of an African-American man as president." [Permalink]

Financial Times: Obama is the better choice
"Nor should one disdain Mr Obama’s way with a crowd. Good presidents engage the country’s attention; great ones inspire. Mr McCain, on form, is an adequate speaker but no more. Mr Obama, on form, is as fine a political orator as the country has heard in decades. Put to the right purposes, this is no mere decoration but a priceless asset." [Permalink]

Des Moines Register: Register editorial board endorses Obama for President
"First test: winning the Iowa caucuses, perceived by many as an improbable feat for a black candidate in an overwhelmingly white state. But Obama believed in the power of his ideas and ideals, and the capacity of Americans to unite around them. Eleven months later, after more than 80 days spent campaigning in the state, Iowans awarded him victory. They had heard his soaring oratory and sensed his uncommon intelligence, but they also witnessed much more: the consistency of his calls for unifying around common purpose, rather than pandering to age-old divisions, and the way he remained unflappable and his staff disciplined no matter what tumult the campaign trail delivered." [Permalink]

Anchorage Daily News: Obama for president
"Gov. Palin has shown the country why she has been so successful in her young political career. Passionate, charismatic and indefatigable, she draws huge crowds and sows excitement in her wake. She has made it clear she's a force to be reckoned with, and you can be sure politicians and political professionals across the country have taken note. Her future, in Alaska and on the national stage, seems certain to be played out in the limelight. Yet despite her formidable gifts, few who have worked closely with the governor would argue she is truly ready to assume command of the most important, powerful nation on earth. To step in and juggle the demands of an economic meltdown, two deadly wars and a deteriorating climate crisis would stretch the governor beyond her range. Like picking Sen. McCain for president, putting her one 72-year-old heartbeat from the leadership of the free world is just too risky at this time." [Permalink]

Cincinatti Enquirer: McCain for President
"It is much easier to see John McCain standing up to a Nancy Pelosi or vetoing a bad bill than Obama. McCain would preserve divided government, which has consistently produced better results for the American people - and which we have long advocated on the state as well as federal level. The prospect of unchecked one-party rule is disquieting." [Permalink]

St. Petersburg Times (FL): Obama for President
"Here is a 47-year-old candidate for president, born in the 1960s, unscarred by Vietnam or the social turmoil of those times. The son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, Obama was raised by his mother and grandparents and did not have the comfortable family life portrayed on old television shows. His political resume as an Illinois state legislator and U.S. senator is relatively thin. Instead, he offers a rich life experience that ranges from Harvard Law School, where he was elected president of the law review, to Chicago's poor neighborhoods, where he worked as a community organizer. This is not a typical White House resume, but there is a curiosity about the world and a commitment to improve it that is admirable, not somehow suspicious as his opponents suggest." [Permalink]

Tacoma News-Tribune (WA): Obama for President
"Obama has led an almost textbook campaign, overcoming what many observers had believed was the foregone conclusion of a Hillary Clinton nomination. His candidacy has been inspirational, attracting countless new voters and astonishing crowds. [...] Another factor in our endorsement of Obama is his choice of Joe Biden of Delaware as his running mate. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden would provide valuable advice in an area where Obama is not as strong. And he would have little learning curve should he be called upon to serve as president" [Permalink]

Jewish Press: John McCain for president
"As The Jewish Press and others have pointed out, there is a rather disturbing dimension to Sen. Obama. Although he has succeeded in denying public access to much of his past relating to his work as a community organizer and his connection to the radical advocacy ACORN group, what we do know speaks volumes of where his views are grounded. For more than 20 years he turned to the virulently anti-American and anti-Israel churchman Reverend Jeremiah Wright for counsel and advice. He has explained away Rev. Wright's diatribes as an understandable reaction to the black experience in America. He also worked closely for years with the notorious William Ayres, Jr. on reforming educational policy, though Mr. Ayres's stated mission is to employ education to cleanse America of its many alleged sins. From where we sit, Sen. Obama emerges as a representative of the radical left, which does not accept the notion of American exceptionalism and the presumptive validity of American tradition. We recall his gratuitous ridicule of those middle Americans who, supposedly out of frustration, "cling to their religion and their guns." We fear Sen. Obama is not intent on merely changing this or that policy but the system in its entirety." [Permalink]

The State (SC): John McCain for president
"Time and again -- consider immigration reform, or campaign finance law -- John McCain has opposed his own party when it was wrong, often at great political risk. In his brief time in the Senate, Sen. Obama has demonstrated no such pattern. With Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid expected to increase their majorities in Congress, that's an important consideration. For more than 40 years, in war and peace, John McCain has exhibited fierce integrity, principled independence and awe-inspiring courage as he has put his country first. Between two extraordinary candidates, he is the better qualified." [Permalink]

San Francisco Bay Guardian: Obama for President
"Back in February, we noted that 'our biggest problem with Obama is that he talks as if all the nation needs to do is come together in some sort of grand coalition of Democrats and Republicans, of ''blue states and red states.'' But some of us have no interest in making common cause with the religious right or Dick Cheney or Halliburton or Don Fisher. There are forces and interests in the United States that need to be opposed, defeated, consigned to the dustbin of history, and for all of Obama's talk of unity, we worry that he lacks the interest in or ability to take on a tough, bloody fight against an entrenched political foe.' But Obama remains one of the most inspirational candidates for high office we've ever seen. He's energized a generation of young voters, he's electrified communities of color, and he's given millions of Americans a chance to hope that Washington can once again be a friend, not an enemy, to progressive values at home and abroad." [Permalink]

New York Times: Barack Obama for President
"Senator John McCain of Arizona has retreated farther and farther to the fringe of American politics, running a campaign on partisan division, class warfare and even hints of racism. [...] Mr. Obama has [strength of will, character and intellect, sober judgment and a cool, steady hand] in abundance. Watching him being tested in the campaign has long since erased the reservations that led us to endorse Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries. He has drawn in legions of new voters with powerful messages of hope and possibility and calls for shared sacrifice and social responsibility. [...] Mr. Obama has withstood some of the toughest campaign attacks ever mounted against a candidate. He's been called un-American and accused of hiding a secret Islamic faith. The Republicans have linked him to domestic terrorists and questioned his wife’s love of her country. Ms. Palin has also questioned millions of Americans' patriotism, calling Republican-leaning states 'pro-America.' [...] The nation's problems are simply too grave to be reduced to slashing 'robo-calls' and negative ads. This country needs sensible leadership, compassionate leadership, honest leadership and strong leadership. Barack Obama has shown that he has all of those qualities." [Permalink]

Detroit News: McCain best choice for uncertain times
"McCain has a well-earned reputation as a spending hawk. Although he now supports making them permanent, he opposed the Bush tax cuts in 2001 because they were not matched by off-setting spending cuts. Again, had McCain prevailed, the nation would have had the economic growth the tax cuts helped produce without the appalling deficits the spending generated. If elected, we hope he hews to his original stance that tax cuts and spending cuts should go hand-in-hand." [Permalink]

Long Beach Press-Telegram (CA): Our choice for president
"Americans are starved for leadership. But leadership and politics come together only when the dominant values are authenticity and courage. That's what we hope to see from both of these candidates in the remaining few days of their campaigns. It's possible, if one should clearly surpass the other in committing himself convincingly to those values, we could change our minds yet one more time before the ballots are cast. But not likely. Barring that, our recommendation is to vote for the candidate who thus far has shown greater stability, wisdom, and at least the potential to challenge Americans not just to prevail, but to strive toward greatness. In our judgment, that is Barack Obama. " [Permalink]

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Plain Dealer endorses Obama for president
"He has, we believe, two great talents: A talent to inspire great masses of people, to stir the imagination and provide a call to action. And a talent for partnership rather than polarization, a genuine respect for disparate views that helps him see the country more as a whole than as a collection of interest groups." [Permalink]

Asbury Park Press (NJ): Obama best-suited to lead America
"[D]ramatic change is needed. That can best be accomplished with a president and a Congress from the same political party. The partisan deadlocks that have prevented Washington from taking decisive action on health care, immigration reform and other issues can't be allowed to slow measures needed to put the nation back on course." [Permalink]

Los Angeles Daily News: Obama is the one
"Many who don't necessarily care for Obama's policies now find themselves on his side, as polls are showing. They might quibble with the details of his health-care policies (as Congress surely will), but they sense in him an inherent calmness in the face of calamity that is befitting the leader of a great nation in one of its toughest times in recent history. He's been unflappable in the face of ugly accusations from McCain's campaign. He might be a relative newcomer to big-time politics, but to those who are tired of the doom and gloom, he is the right person to guide the country through the dark days ahead." [Permalink]

Lexington Herald-Leader (KY): Obama right man for the job
"On Nov. 4, voters won't be picking someone with whom to have a beer or the person they would most likely sit next to in church. They're hiring a leader for the world's toughest job. Any former president would say that it's impossible to be prepared for the enormity of the responsibility. Like any employer, voters should consider which candidate has the greater capacity to learn and grow on the job. McCain is the past. Obama is the future. Voters should make him our next president." [Permalink]

Austin American-Statesman: President: Obama answers call for change, hope, leadership
"Obama has demonstrated his toughness, his determination and his focus through the primaries and through a very personal general election campaign. The country will be in very capable hands in an Obama presidency." [Permalink]

Daily Press (VA): For president
"John McCain is far from the perfect candidate, as evidenced, most recently, by his selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, at a time when the nation needs the kind of economic expertise a Mitt Romney would have brought to the ticket. But his long and public record, and his forthrightness about his values and plans, leave fewer doubts about where he will take this nation, and whether he's capable of getting there. He will focus on building the infrastructure of success -- freedom, responsibility, judicious regulation, well-placed incentives -- instead of hoping to achieve success by extending government's reach and responsibilities." [Permalink]

Houston Chronicle: The presidential ticket
"Obama appears to possess the tools to confront our myriad and daunting problems. He's thoughtful and analytical. He has met his opponents' attacks with calm and reasoned responses. Viewers of the debates saw a poised, well-prepared plausible president with well-articulated positions on the bread-and-butter issues that poll after poll indicate are the true concerns of voters. While Arizona Sen. John McCain and his running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have struck an increasingly personal and negative tone in their speeches, Obama has continued to talk about issues of substance." [Permalink]

San Diego Union-Tribune: McCain for president
"On Election Day, Americans historically have voted their pocketbooks. This innate common sense is more important than ever in stormy economic times. At this critical moment, America needs John McCain in the Oval Office." [Permalink]

Sarasota Herald-Tribune: President: Barack Obama
"Obama has displayed presidential temperament under the intense fire of a tough campaign. It's a leap of faith to support a candidate with so little political experience. But the leadership skills Obama has demonstrated and his ideas for improving on the last eight years -- which haven't worked very well, have they? -- pose the lesser risk and offer the greatest potential to the nation." [Permalink]

Idaho Statesman: Our View: America needs Obama's steady hand
"Obama and Biden have largely stayed on topic and unflappable, in the face of last-minute campaigning that has turned ugly. At their worst, Republicans have resorted to fear-mongering. In what, by comparison, pass for measured moments, McCain and Palin simply insinuate that the Democratic ticket is out of touch and elitist. It's not only a bogus claim - given Obama's and Biden's backgrounds - but it's a silly form of reverse snobbery. Our nation has to stop equating intellect with elitism and viewing intelligence with scorn and skepticism. Considering the problems at hand, there is no better time than now to change our thinking." [Permalink]

Las Vegas Sun: Barack Obama: Our choice for President
"As Americans consider who should be the next president, it is clear that we are at a crossroads. Americans are looking for someone who not only has a steady hand and is a consensus builder, but who also is a strong leader and who has faith in the greatness of what our nation has to offer even in these most trying of times. We believe that man is Barack Obama." [Permalink]

Buffalo News: Obama for president
"Fundamentally, Obama does not want us to fear the future, the ever smaller, ever more complicated world, the problems we face and the choices we must make. He most certainly does not want us to be afraid of one another. And Obama does not even want us to be afraid of his rival candidate." [Permalink]

Huntington Herald-Dispatch (WV): Editorial: Obama more likely to bring change America needs
"Yes, Obama is untested when compared with McCain. But given the choice between John McCain or Barack Obama, the question is who would be best for America. Most of the editorial board members felt the best choice is Barack Obama." [Permalink]

San Antonio Express-News: Editorial: McCain is the best choice for president
"During his military career and 26 years in Congress, McCain has become an expert on foreign policy and security issues. From Latin America to the Caucasus to the Middle East and Asia, McCain has intimate knowledge of the issues and the personalities. McCain's understanding of the world and the nation's security needs is a crucial asset in these tumultuous times." [Permalink]

New York Daily News: Daily News endorses Obama for President: He has the promise to renew America at home and abroad
"In sum, we are banking on practicality trumping political dogma in an Obama White House. The fantasy that the U.S. can move toward energy independence without fully committing to domestic drilling and nuclear power must be banished. The reality that America can't make strides toward universal health care without fiscal discipline elsewhere must sink in." [Permalink]

Contra Costa Times (CA): Times recommends voters select Barack Obama
"The next several years will not be easy for this nation. We will need great leadership to help bring us peace and prosperity again. We urge Obama, once elected, to look toward the centrist model of President Clinton, for this country must be governed from the middle. The past eight years of failed policies at home and abroad have not worked. We are ready for change." [Permalink]

Dayton Daily News (OH): 2 good men; Obama right leader for today
"Barack Obama has been in the public spotlight for four years (since his memorable debut speech at his party's 2004 convention). He has withstood relentless, withering attacks. The more attacks he survives, the more comfortable people seem with the idea of him as a leader." [Permalink]

Fresno Bee (CA): Obama for president
"John McCain has served his country with extraordinary courage and dedication. But he is, in many ways, a figure out of the past, the Cold Warrior out of time and out of touch. The world has turned since McCain began his long service, and he hasn't kept pace. It is time for change, and Barack Obama is the candidate better suited to guide the United States into this troubled new century." [Permalink]

Toledo Blade (OH): Forward with Obama
"As a president from another era suggested, Americans should ask themselves: Am I better off than I was eight years ago? Four years ago? The answer is obvious and, therefore, the option on Nov. 4 is clear. Historically, Ohio has had a critical role in presidential elections and appears poised once again to be a key in deciding who sits in the Oval Office for the next four years. This is an awesome responsibility, and one that cannot be taken lightly. For the future of Ohio and America, there is only one reasonable choice for president: Barack Obama." [Permalink]

Oregonian: Obama for President
"This has been a very long campaign, and since its beginning the favorites -- and the themes -- have changed repeatedly. Way back in the winter of 2007, the key issue seemed to be Iraq, a theme that has been steadily replaced by the economy, until this month's market meltdown seemed to blot out everything else. [...] It's a situation that requires not only a policy change, but a powerful call for Americans to remember the things that hold us together, and to believe in them again." [Permalink]

El Diario (NY): Obama for President
"Our next president must have the capacity, judgment and vision to restore confidence, both here and abroad. El Diario/La Prensa endorses Senator Barack Obama as the leader ready to redirect the United States of America towards its promise." [Permalink]

Tampa Tribune: Uncertain Times Require McCain's Tested Vigilance
"[T]he record shows blunt-talking McCain would begin to return his party, and the nation, to a more conservative, compassionate and productive path. He is not the candidate preferred in much of Europe and the Middle East, but he would keep us safe and begin to repair America's image worldwide." [Permalink]

Asheville Citizen-Times (NC): Nation clearly needs change; Obama is better-suited
"McCain, a brave warrior and a dedicated, lifelong public servant, has surrounded himself with advisers who fail to recognize the urgency to make fundamental policy changes, instead harkening back to failed tax and energy strategies. In a dangerous world increasingly bound together by a global economy, McCain’s choice for vice president, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, feisty as she is, does not have the requisite exposure to foreign affairs to take the reins of government should McCain become incapacitated or die in office." [Permalink]

Salt Lake Tribune: A simple choice: The nation needs Barack Obama in the White House
"The country desperately needs a new and well-defined road map for the 21st century and leadership that can unite the country behind it. We believe that Barack Obama can give us both." [Permalink]

Arkansas Times: Time for change
"A vote for president this year does not mean a decision built on negatives. The Arkansas Times happily endorses the Democrat, Barack Obama. His measured judgment on the war is reassuring against a backdrop of continued violence in the Middle East and beyond. He offers a health insurance plan, which, if short of the single-payer plan we prefer, promises more coverage than hard-pressed Americans now enjoy and far more protection than John McCain's tax credit mirage could ever provide. He promises, moreo-ver, an end to the trickle-down Republican economic theory that John McCain espouses. Finally, smarts count for something. We've tried it the other way for eight years." [Permalink]

Manchester Union Leader (NH): John McCain is the man to lead America
"Competence, courage, and conviction are enormously important for our next President to possess. No one has a better understanding of U.S. interests and dangers right now than does McCain. He was right on the mistakes made by the Bush administration in prosecuting the Islamic terrorist war in Iraq and he is being proved right on the way forward both there and worldwide." [Permalink]

Philadelphia Inquirer: For President: Obama will lead
"There's another reason to vote for Obama. It would tell the world that the melting-pot America of legend has finally become a reality - electing a biracial president whose black father was born in Kenya and white mother hailed from Kansas. With his eloquent oratory, Obama has already taken big steps to bridge America's racial divide. In his gentle but resolute demeanor, people also see a man who can restore their faith in a national government that's been trapped in a tar pit of partisan sniping." Endorsement was non-unanimous: page includes dissenting view endorsing McCain. [Permalink]

Miami Herald: The Miami Herald recommends
"Because of the current administration's incompetence, arrogance -- or both -- American prestige abroad has never been as low. The effusive response from audiences during Sen. Obama's recent tour of Europe suggests he could help restore our lost influence. Clearly, traditional U.S. allies are more than ready to work with an American president who replaces unilateral policies and preemptive wars with vigorous diplomacy on behalf of common interests." [Permalink]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Obama is the choice
"Different challenges require different strengths. Obama has demonstrated a calm, thoughtful leadership style that fits this time and this challenge well. He has laid out a wiser, more measured approach toward foreign policy that elevates diplomacy and negotiation while reserving the use of force if necessary to protect this country and its allies in a dangerous world. He understands that international respect and admiration can’t be forced at gunpoint." [Permalink]

Denver Post: Barack Obama for president
"Republicans love to mock Obama's history as a community organizer. But here was a man with no money to offer, no patronage to dispense, no way to punish his opponents. All he could do was to work with people from all walks of life, liberals and conservatives, business people and the unemployed, and bring them together in common cause for a better community. Could there really be better preparation to reunite a worried and divided America to again pursue our 'more perfect union'?" [Permalink]

La Opinion: Barack Obama For President
"The United States is at a crossroads. The country needs a different vision and a new focus to the problems that have been dragging on for decades. Barack Obama is the right person to begin a new cycle of renewal as President of the United States." [Permalink]

Chicago Sun-Times: Sun-Times endorses Barack Obama for president
"Often in America's most difficult days, the nation has been blessed with extraordinary leaders who seemed just right for the times. [...] The times again demand an extraordinary leader.

Here in Chicago, we have been watching Barack Obama and sizing him up for some time. We knew him well before he introduced himself to the nation with his electrifying speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention. [...]

Barack Obama believes in the audacity of hope. He inspires it in others. He inspires it in us.[...] Barack Obama should be the next president of the United States of America." [Permalink]

San Francisco Chronicle: Barack Obama for president
"McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has been largely sequestered from the news media since her selection in late August. She has yet to have anything resembling a traditional news conference, where the full range of her knowledge and views can be explored. Her avoidance of questions and reliance on cue-card talking points in the one vice presidential debate did nothing to allay doubts about whether the 44-year-old governor of two years is capable of assuming the reins of the presidency. Her selection was but an act of political calculation by McCain. " [Permalink]

Los Angeles Times: Barack Obama for president
"We may one day look back on this presidential campaign in wonder. We may marvel that Obama's critics called him an elitist, as if an Ivy League education were a source of embarrassment, and belittled his eloquence, as if a gift with words were suddenly a defect. In fact, Obama is educated and eloquent, sober and exciting, steady and mature. He represents the nation as it is, and as it aspires to be." [Permalink]

Chicago Tribune: Chicago Tribune endorses Obama
"We have tremendous confidence in his intellectual rigor, his moral compass and his ability to make sound, thoughtful, careful decisions. He is ready. [...] This is the first time the newspaper has endorsed the Democratic Party's nominee for president." [Permalink]

Washington Post: Barack Obama for President
"Any presidential vote is a gamble, and Mr. Obama's resume is undoubtedly thin. We had hoped, throughout this long campaign, to see more evidence that Mr. Obama might stand up to Democratic orthodoxy and end, as he said in his announcement speech, 'our chronic avoidance of tough decisions.' But Mr. Obama's temperament is unlike anything we've seen on the national stage in many years. He is deliberate but not indecisive; eloquent but a master of substance and detail; preternaturally confident but eager to hear opposing points of view. He has inspired millions of voters of diverse ages and races, no small thing in our often divided and cynical country. We think he is the right man for a perilous moment." [Permalink]

Times (UK): An American Choice
"It is for the American people to choose the next president of the United States. Anyone who is not a citizen should proffer advice on the question only with the greatest humility and tact. [...] Yet it would be naive to think that readers of a British newspaper have no stake in the outcome of the contest between Barack Obama and John McCain. [...] [I]f the United States were to choose its first African- American, Britain's ally in the fight for liberty and democracy would be sending out a message. It would be that through peaceful struggle, and democratic protest, oppression can be overcome, freedom can be won and tolerance can be victorious. An Obama inaugural presidential address would deliver an eloquent sermon on Western values before its first word had been uttered." [Permalink]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: It's Obama: We need a president who will break with the past
"In three weeks, Americans will be called upon to make an exceptional judgment worthy of the times. The forces of history appear to invite boldness and the Post-Gazette believes they should be heeded by voting for the only authentic, fresh agent of change in this race, Barack Obama." [Permalink]

Napa Valley Register (CA): McCain for President
"McCain has the experience and the ability to lead this country in a time of enormous challenges and uncertainty, and his policy proposals in several areas are superior to those of his dynamic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill." [Permalink]

Springfield News-Sun (OH): Barack Obama is nation's best hope
"The News-Sun Editorial Board is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama as the best hope for the nation to return to prosperity and to regain its standing in the world. [...] One of Obama's best qualities is simply his ability to inspire people. We're going to need that in the coming years." [Permalink]

Esquire: Esquire Endorses Barack Obama for President
"'Change' is now whatever Barack Obama needs it to be at the moment. [...] And there it ends. He thought it meant an end to 'partisanship' without appreciating that democracies are supposed to be partisan, never more so than when a 'bipartisan' consensus fits American military justice with a kangaroo suit. He thought it meant an end to 'divisiveness' without appreciating the fact that there is much about this country now that ought to divide us, that it is time for a loud, impolite fight about what it means to be an American. [...] To continue to govern ourselves this way is unthinkable. It is unsustainable as a democracy to continue to mock so egregiously in secret what we continue to profess in public. That is the task for the next president. That is the main reason to vote for Barack Obama of Illinois. We strongly encourage you to do so." [Permalink]

Stockton Record (CA): Choice is clear: Obama for president
"While praiseworthy for putting the first woman on a major-party presidential ticket since Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, his selection of Palin as a running mate was appalling. The first-term governor is clearly not experienced enough to serve as vice president or president if required. Her lack of knowledge is being covered up by keeping her away from questioning reporters and doing interviews only with those considered friendly to her views." [Permalink]

WV Gazette: Obama - Presidential endorsement
"Barack Obama is one of those rare leaders who appear in America perhaps once per generation - a deep thinker who inspires people almost in the tradition of Winston Churchill. Obama's mind probes farther than those around him, and he has eloquence to convey his insights to everyone. He stirs Americans to strive for a better society." [Permalink]

Seattle Times: Barack Obama for president
"Obama should be the next president of the United States because he is the most qualified change agent. Obama is a little young, but also brilliant. If he sometimes seems brainy and professorial, that's OK. We need the leader of the free world to think things through, carefully. We have seen the sorry results of shooting from the hip." [Permalink]

Baltimore Examiner: The Examiner endorses McCain-Palin
"America is at war overseas and in an economic crisis here at home. Many of her citizens believe the country is on the wrong track. It is for times such as these that men like John McCain are made, to put country first so that it can be put right in its time of need. For this reason, The Examiner endorses McCain for president and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, for vice president." [Permalink]

St. Louis Post Dispatch: Sunday editorial: Barack Obama for president
"Over the past nine months, Mr. Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, has emerged as the only truly transformative candidate in the race. In the crucible that is a presidential campaign, his intellect, his temperament and equanimity under pressure consistently have been impressive. He has surrounded himself with smart, capable advisers who have helped him refine thorough, nuanced policy positions.

In a word, Mr. Obama has been presidential." [Permalink]

NY Post: Post Endorses John McCain
"McCain's lifelong record of service to America, his battle-tested courage, unshakable devotion to principle and clear grasp of the dangers and opportunities now facing the nation stand in dramatic contrast to the tissue-paper-thin résumé of his Democratic opponent, freshman Sen. Barack Obama." [Permalink]

Asheville Citizen-Times: Nation clearly needs change; Obama is better-suited
"America can’t afford to muddle through another four years. We are near the tipping point in too many areas vital to our future as a nation. We need the steadiness, the sound judgment and the approach to problem-solving that Barack Obama and Joe Biden would bring." [Permalink]

Boston Herald: McCain for president: A certain leader for uncertain times
"Another sobering start to an exceedingly sobering week - but one which points to the need for a political leader who is steady in the face of crisis, mature in judgment and able to reach across the aisle to break the gridlock that has for too long gripped Washington." [Permalink]