Newspaper endorsements predict the victory of President Barack Obama in the 2012 election. Obama has obtained endorsements from 33 large  newspapers while Romney’s trails with 27. An even more interesting fact is Obama’s 33 newspapers almost doubled Romney’s 27 in circulation numbers, beating him 8,785,527 to 4,902,724. What do these positive endorsements for Barack have to say about his last election and his impending next election? What do these positive endorsements for Romney have to say for his past term in Massachusetts and how he would perform as the President of the United States?

Obama supporters continually cite his achievements within his first term as president; his success in bailing out the Auto Industry, in starting the withdraw of troops from Iraq, of saving the country from collapsing into a Great Depression. Papers such as the Toledo Blade state that Obamas’ “stimulus he promoted… helped prevent the recession from becoming a depression.” The News and Observer of Raleigh North Carolina stated that Obama “helped create jobs in many parts of the country (including urban North Carolina)”. Other more prominent news papers such as the New York Times states that Obama made great strides during his presidency in civil rights, with overcoming his hesitation on same-sex marriage, and legislating out of existence the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy concerning the United States Army. The New York Times claims that Obama also made great strides in health care and created jobs in school renovations and road projects that helped pull America out of a dark time in the economy. But was this enough, where all of these accomplishments enough?

They sure were not enough for Romney supporters, and this is what many of the Romney endorsements explained in their articles. Romney supporters claim that this “change” platform of Obama was not enough change, and the change now, needs to be a new president. Newspapers such as the Richmond Times Dispatch states that “Romney understands the value of free enterprise..and  in this year’s candidates he is alone in that respect.” And the Naples Daily Review states that they believe that the economy is on its eventual way back, but the total recovery of the economy will only attribute from a different kind of change, the change of the Romney administration. Other newspapers such as the Cincinnati Enquirer cite his success in Massachusetts economy crisis to his business back ground, saying, “Romney’s approach was business like. He didn’t spare any sacred cows.”

Overall, the general consensus of endorsements, of the papers still continuing to endorse, favor Obama. And those papers that favor Romney do so in hindsight becasue they feel like Obama did not do enough, and Romney’s more business like approach will save the economy.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/rtd-opinion/2012/oct/28/tdopin01-romney-promises-hope-for-recovery-ar-2314814/

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2012/oct/28/editorial-president-of-the-united-states/

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20121028/EDIT01/310280050/Enquirer-presidential-endorsement-Mitt-Romney?nclick_check=1

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/28/2440915/obama-again.html

http://www.toledoblade.com/Editorials/2012/10/28/lt-div-class-libPageBodyLinebreak-gt-Re-elect-President-Obama-lt-div-gt.html