I expected there’d be more of these, but the St. Cloud Times has handed Dean Barkley his first non-student-daily endorsement.
Still Al Franken’s shutout string is intact; Norm Coleman still leads the Democrat 6-0 (or 11-0 if you count Forum Communications papers seperately, even though their pick goes chain-wide).
Norm Coleman
♦ Star Tribune
♦ Pioneer Press
♦ Forum Communications (Duluth News-Tribune, Fargo-Moorhead Forum and and four others)
♦ Albert Lea Tribune
♦ Marshall Independent
♦ Mesabi Daily News
Dean Barkley
♦ St. Cloud Times
♦ Minnesota Daily
Al Franken — no dailies yet.
Still to weigh in: papers in Rochester, Mankato and Winona, among others.