Sunday, November 27, 2011

The Union Leader Endorsement Is No Guarantee Of A primary Victory

Mixed record for Union Leader nod
The good news for the former House speaker is that New Hampshire’s most influential newspaper was an early booster of Ronald Reagan and Pat Buchanan ahead of their primary wins, and four years ago, threw its weight behind John McCain as he resurrected his campaign with a victory in the state.

The Union Leader went for Steve Forbes in 2000. That year, publisher Joe McQuaid wrote that Forbes “believes in what he says and he says it. His two main rivals, on the other hand, seem much more interested in what the news media say about them than in their own message.”

Union Leader editorial page editor Drew Cline, who appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, drew a parallel between the Manchester paper’s endorsement of McCain in 2008 and its endorsement of OGingrich in the 2012 GP contest.


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