Fewer than one-fifth of people polled say they know who their local paper is backing.
By Ariel Edwards-Levy | The Huffington Post
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds up a newspaper as she speaks to small business owners in Cedar Falls, Iowa, on May 19, 2015.
If newspaper endorsements counted as presidential votes, Hillary Clinton would be winning in a landslide. Thus far, Mother Jones reports, none of the nation’s 100 highest-circulation newspapers have come out in favor of her GOP rival, Donald Trump, including a number of staunchly Republican editorial boards with long-running streaks of supporting GOP candidates.
“Clinton has the temperament and experience to be president,” the editorial board of The Arizona Republic wrote last month, explaining its decision to back a Democrat for the first time in the paper’s 126-year history. “Donald Trump does not.”
