Al Franken’s daily-paper endorsement skunking continues. Both the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press will pick Norm Coleman in their Sunday editions. (Hat tip: a gleeful Minnesota Democrats Exposed.)
Here’s the updated daily-paper endorsement roll — no links yet on the Strib and PiPress. By the way, this list will make a terrific ad for Norm:
Norm Coleman
♦ Star Tribune
♦ Pioneer Press
♦ Forum Communications (Duluth News-Tribune, West Central Tribune, Bemidji Pioneer, Fargo-Moorhead Forum and others)
♦ Albert Lea Tribune
♦ Marshall Independent
♦ McLeod County Chronicle
Dean Barkley
♦ Minnesota Daily
Al Franken — no dailies yet.
Still to weigh in: papers in Rochester, St. Cloud, Mankato and Winona, among others.
(Note: I originally credited ECM Publications — Mille Lacs County Times, Morrison County Record and others — to Norm’s column. Even though they did endorse Coleman, they don’t publish dailies.)
The dying paper dailies know who they can depend on when their businesses continue to fail.