If newspapers could vote...

Editor and Publisher, a trade journal for the newspaper industry, is tracking presidential endorsements. Obama is winning by a landslide (their current count is Obama 60, McCain 18). He's picked up some surprising endorsements from a number of papers that backed Bush for years ago, including the Denver Post and the Salt Lake Tribune.

Here's their current tally:

Here is the latest chart. As always, we include in brackets who the paper went with in 2004 with B=Bush and K=Kerry. [Numbers indicate circulation, if available.]

JOHN McCAIN

18 newspapers total
About 1.7 million daily circulation

CALIFORNIA

Napa Valley Register: 16,283

The San Francisco Examiner (B): 80,000

COLORADO

Mountain Valley News (Cedaredge): 2,000

The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction) (B): 31,349

The Pueblo Chieftain (B): 49,169

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The Washington DC Examiner (N/A): 100,073

FLORIDA

Tampa Tribune

MARYLAND

The Baltimore Examiner (N/A): 50,000

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston Herald (B): 182,350

The (Lowell) Sun (B): 44,439

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Foster’s Daily Democrat (B): 22,547

Union Leader (Manchester) (B): 51,782

NEW YORK

New York Post (B): 702,488

OHIO

The (Findlay) Courier (B): 22,319

TEXAS

Amarillo Globe-News (B): 44,764

Dallas Morning News (B)

WASHINGTON

(Spokane) Spokesman-Review (B): 89,779

WEST VIRGINIA

Wheeling News-Register (B): 12,821

BARACK OBAMA

60 newspapers total
Well over 8 million circulation (we are still counting)

ARKANSAS

Arkansas Times (K): 34,000

CALIFORNIA

The Argus (Fremont) (K): 26,749

Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek) (K): 183,086

Daily Review (Hayward) (K): 30,704

The Fresno Bee (K): 150,334

La Opinion (Los Angeles) (K): 114,892

Los Angeles Times (N/A): 773,884 [Their first Democratic presidential endorsement ever]

The Modesto Bee (K): 78,001

The Monterey County Herald (K): 28,933

Oakland Tribune (K): 96,535

The (Stockton) Record (B): 57,486

The Sacramento Bee (K): 288,755

San Bernardino Sun (B): 54,315

San Francisco Chronicle (K): 370,345

San Jose Mercury News (K): 234,772

San Mateo County Times (K): 25,982

Santa Cruz Sentinel (K): 23,290

Tri-Valley Herald (B): 29,759

COLORADO

Cortez Journal (K): 6,700

The Denver Post (B)

The Durango Herald (K): 8,870

Gunnison Country Times (N/A): 4,000

Ouray County Plaindealer (K): 3,000

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The Washington Post (K): 673,180

FLORIDA

Miami Herald (K)

GEORGIA

Atlanta Journal-Constitution (K)

HAWAII

Honolulu Star-Bulletin (K): 64,305

ILLINOIS

Chicago Tribune (B): 541,663 [Their first Democratic presidential endorsement ever]

Chicago Sun-Times (K)

Southwest News-Herald (K)

IOWA

The Storm Lake Times (K): 3,200

MASSACHUSETTS

The Boston Globe (K): 350,605

The Standard-Times (New Bedford) (K): 30,306

MICHIGAN

The Muskegon Chronicle (K): 41,114

MISSOURI

Kansas City Star

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (K): 255,057

NEW MEXICO

Santa Fe New Mexican (K): 25,249

NEW YORK

el Dario La Prensa (): 53,856

NORTH CAROLINA

Asheville Citizen-Times (K): 50,160

OHIO

The (Toledo) Blade (K): 119,901

Dayton Daily News (K): 116,690

The (Canton) Repository (B): 65,789

Springfield News-Sun (K): 24,684

OREGON

Mail Tribune (Medford) (K): 30,349

PENNSYLVANIA

The Express-Times (Easton) (B): 44,561

Philadelphia Inquirer (K)

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (K): 214,374

TENNESSEE

Chattanooga Times (K): 71,716

The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) (K): 146,961

The (Nashville) Tennessean (K): 161,131

TEXAS

The Lufkin Daily News (K): 12,225

UTAH

The Salt Lake Tribune (B)

VIRGINIA

Falls Church News-Press (K): 30,500

WASHINGTON

The Columbian (B): 44,623

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (K): 129,563

The Seattle Times (K): 220,883

WEST VIRGINIA

The Charleston Gazette (K): 48,061

WISCONSIN

The Capital Times (Madison) (K): 16,335

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) (B): 87,930