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Boston.comSenators Barack Obama and John McCain have been endorsed by The Boston Globe editorial board ahead of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary on Jan. 8 in New Hampshire.
The board wrote that Obama, the Illinois Democrat, fulfills America's need for "a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world,'' and that McCain, the Arizona Republican, ''has done more than his share to transcend partisanship and promote an honest discussion of the problems facing the United States.''
The newspaper released early excerpts of its McCain and Obama endorsements, which will be published in full in Sunday's Globe and on Boston.com. The endorsements followed in-depth interviews with the presidential contenders.
Read more:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/12/15/globe_endorses_mccain_obama/
This is very significant news. The Globe has a very large readership in New Hampshire, particularly among Democrats and Independents in the densely populated suburbs in Rockingham and Hillsborough Counties. It's also a surprise. Most people assumed that Hillary Clinton was going to receive the nod.
The Obama endorsement itself is at
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2007/12/16/for_democrats_barack_obama/