The Northeast newspapers want Barack Obama, the Midwest's big dailies — minus those in Democrat-dominated Chicago — are pushing Mitt Romney. And there was a surprise endorsement in Mormonism's unofficial capital.
On Monday, the Boston Globe — Romney's hometown paper that endorsed then-Republican presidential hopeful Jon M. Huntsman Jr. during the GOP primary — has again snubbed the former Massachusetts governor and endorsed Obama's reelection.
The thumbs-up for Obama came a day after the New York Times, which owns the Globe, urged readers to vote for Obama in a Sunday editorial.
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And even the Salt Lake Tribune, a paper-of-record in Utah, spurned the Republican candidate, claiming in an editorial that the Mormon Romney was a flip-flopper on core issues and endorsed Obama.