Talk:Newspaper endorsements in the 2012 United States presidential election

Propose combining LA News Group endorsements into one
All seven of the California newspaper endorsements listed as of 10/29 are the identically written and worded endorsement from the Los Angeles News Group, which owns every paper listed here:

LA Daily News, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Torrance Daily Breeze, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News, Whittier Daily News

So for all those papers, there's really one endorsement, not eight separate endorsements. Compare them -- they are the identical editorial. In my opinion, this should be changed to one entry for "Los Angeles News Group."

superbu (talk) 04:54, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, that sounds reasonable. --  Wikipedical (talk) 05:09, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Propose combining the Daily newspapers sections into a single table
This page would be more useful if the two major sections were combined into one and sorted by circulation - similar to this page at ucsb.edu. This would make it easier to compare candidate endorsements by circulation and state-by-state without having to scroll up and down the page. And adding a separate column for the city (or metropolitan area). (The formatting is borrowed from Nationwide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2012.) -- Cassiuscarr (talk) 08:23, 28 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't have a major preference either way, but your proposal emphasizes circulation count as what's most important. Right now, the list's current emphasis is on who is endorsed, while circulation count is secondary.  --  Wikipedical (talk) 08:26, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I think the focus probably should be more on whose endorsed. I did consider a change where we also list 2004 endorsements when known.--T. Anthony (talk) 09:59, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I also agree that the focus should be on who was endorsed rather than on the paper's circulation. In Newspaper endorsements in the United States presidential election, 2008, the Obama and McCain endorsements eventually got split off into separate pages. The way things are now, with separate tables, it would be easy to split the Obama endorsements and the Romney endorsements off to separate pages, if it gets to the point where people want to do so. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:24, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I think as it stands now, we currently do not need to split the page yet.  --  Wikipedical (talk) 23:02, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I hope that's not necessary for awhile. I kind of prefer it all on one page. No having to flip page to page to compare.--T. Anthony (talk) 06:41, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The way the layout is seems confusing. I just wasted my time correcting things that didn't need to be corrected. Teammm  $talk email$ 16:00, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I just added a sentence to the intro in hopes of reducing the potential confusion. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:09, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) Teammm  $talk email$ 04:51, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Circulation figures
Most of the circulation figures on this page come from http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/newssearchus.asp although for the last two days I haven't been able to access that page. I keep getting a "500 - Internal server error". (I had been able to access the page until a couple of days ago.) Has anyone else been having the same problem -- or perhaps not having the same problem, because I note that other circulations citing that site have been added during that period? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:33, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I've since changed the source URL to http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/newsform.asp which does work properly. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:33, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

2008 endorsements
John McCain is not running this year. Your page for the 2012 newspaper endorsements shows the 2008 election. fix it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.171.22 (talk) 20:34, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * See the second sentence of the article: "(The tables below also indicate which candidate each publication endorsed in the United States presidential election, 2008, where known.)" We included a column to show the 2008 endorsements as a way of comparing the newspapers' 2012 endorsements to their 2008 endorsements. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:07, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

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