But here is that accounting, which shows an extremely wide GOP edge from the so-called "liberal press" going way back, with even JFK and FDR taking it on the chin. A Democrat did not earn the most editorial votes until Johnson edged Goldwater in 1964 and then not again until Clinton recorded a narrow "win" in 1992.
Doesn't that just warm the cockles of your lil black heart? It does mine. Now their polls:
# endorsements R (%) # endorsements D (%) no-endorsement at all or could not determine(%)
1940: Willkie (R) Roosevelt (D)
813 (63.9) 289 (22.7) 171 (13.4)
1944: Dewey (R) Roosevelt (D)
796 (60.1) 291 (22.0) 237 (17.9)
1948: Dewey (R) Truman (D)
771 (65.2) 182 (15.4)
Thurmond (I) Wallace (I)
45 (3.8) 3 (.3) 182 (15.4)
1952: Eisenhower (R) Stevenson (D)
933 (67.3) 202 (14.5) 250 (18.1)
1956: Eisenhower (R) Stevenson (D)
740 (62.3) 189 (15.1) 270 (22.7)
1960: Nixon (R) Kennedy (D)
731 (57.7) 208 (16.4) 328 (25.9)
1964: Johnson (D) Goldwater (R)
440 (42.4) 359 (34.7) 237 (22.9)
1968: Nixon (R) Humphrey (D)
634 (60.8) 146 (14)
Wallace (I)
12 (1.2) 250 (24.0)
1972: Nixon (R) McGovern (D)
753 (71.4) 56 (5.3) 245 (23.3)
1976: Ford (R) Carter (D)
411 (62) 80 (12) 168 (26)
1980: Reagan (R) Carter(D)
443 (42.2) 126 (12)
Anderson (I)
40 (3.8) 439 (42)
1984: Reagan (R) Mondale (D)
381 (57.7) 62 (9.4) 216 (27)
1988: Bush (R) Dukakis (D)
195 (29.5) 51 (7.7) 416 (62.8)
1992: Clinton (D) Bush (R)
149 (18.3) 125 (14.9)
Perot (I)
1 (0.1) 542 (66.7)
Barack Obama leads by about 125 to 46 over John McCain. Check out their running list of all endorsements, updated continuously here.
