Many college newspapers that endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008 are not supporting his election again this year, another indication that the Obama enthusiasm that swept across campuses four years ago has faded.
A review conducted by The Daily Caller of campus publications indicates that at least 53 papers newspapers that endorsed Obama in 2008 have yet to endorse his candidacy again as Election Day approaches. TheDC arrived at this number by looking at 89 known papers that supported Obama four years ago.
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Ryan Weber, the editor of the Daily Illini at the University of Illinois, explained to his readers last week that the paper decided against endorsing a candidate in the election after supporting Democratic nominee John Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008.
“This decision does not come easily — some members of the editorial board opposed this decision; others supported it,” Weber wrote.
But don’t be fooled: most of these publications aren’t all backing Republican nominee Mitt Romney instead. Only one paper — The Daily Campus of Southern Methodist University — is supporting Romney in 2012 after supporting Obama in 2008.
