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Oh, certainly, the Right Wing Nut Jobs out there will obviously say this means nothing because the New York Times is a liberal rag.
But one hundred twenty seven other newspapers across the country have also endorsed Obama, as opposed to the forty-nine that have endorsed McCain.
Read the article there were some good points made.
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10/24/2008 12:10:00 PM
Left Wing Modern Orthodox: 78%
Right Wing Modern Orthodox: 89%
Left Wing Yeshivish/Chareidi: 37%
Right Wing Yeshivish/Chareidi: 4%
This means you're: Modern Orthodox
What does it mean?
Congratulations. You're Modern Orthodox all right, but wait! Just when you were ready to live an idyllic happily-labeled life they announce Left Wing and Right Wing Modern Orthodoxy. What the heck is up with that? Maybe you need to rethink and refine some of your positions, and then take the test again so I can put you in a little box.
See? I'm not such a Kofer after all!!! :)
6 comments:
This means nothing because the New York Times is a liberal rag.
See? :-)
I agree that the FACT they endorsed Obama doesn't mean anything. When's the last time they endorsed a Republican for president? Have they EVER endorsed a Republican for president?
Still, it's a decent article. And the amount of papers that have endorsed Obama is unprecedented. I read somewhere that in every presidential election from 1968 to 2000, the majority of newspapers in the country have endorsed the Republican. In 2004, a slight majority favored Kerry. This year, the Obama endorsements are outnumbering the McCain ones by more than 2:1, and it includes the Chicago Tribune, which has never endorsed a Democrat for president in its entire 160-year history.
Republicans endorsed by the NY Times:
Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, McKinley, Taft, Willkie (1940 - over FDR), Dewey (1948 - over Truman), and Eisenhower (both times).
Now, I KNOW the earlier Reps were more like the Dems are today. However, the NY Times DID endorse more modern day Reps, most prominent among them being Ike.
That makes sense. According to Wikipedia (linking to an NYT-run website), it started out as an overtly Republican paper but when it endorsed Grover Cleveland in the 1880s it established itself as independent. It probably still leaned Republican for as long as the Republican Party represented the North, and that explains why they've consistently endorsed Democrats since the 1960s.
Yup. I'm actually surprised they endorsed Eisenhower.
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