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New Mexico newspaper headline: Obama Wins!

By Elizabeth Snead

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October 28, 2008 9:14 AM

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A New Mexico paper has declared Barack Obama the next POTUS!

The New Mexico Sun News printed the headline "Obama Wins" in its election edition on stands today, with "Special Collectors Edition" printed in bold red type.

Seems the Sun News is a bimonthly newspaper and the Oct. 26-Nov. 8 issue had to hit the streets -- and the newsstands -- before the election.

So, based on the polls, the editors made a logical leap of faith and declared Democrat Barack Obama the winner.

Explaining their choice, the editors wrote, "When it comes to calling the winner of a presidential election, everyone wants to be first. The New Mexico Sun News hereby claims that achievement."

The alternative newspaper asks readers to get out and vote, "even if we did spoil the ending for you."

Maybe not. Remember that "Dewey Beats Truman" headline?

And that Florida hanging chad mess?

It ain't over yet. So everyone get out and vote on Tuesday!

Are you concerned that the media's blitz about Barack' Obamas lead may cause Democratic voters to get lazy and not go to the polls next Tuesday?

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22 Comments

They may be eating their words the day after the election...this election is much closer then the last one. Polls had Kerry up much higher then Bush and we know who won. The problem with polls, is that there is a large number of conservative voters who just don't take part in polls. Plus people are starting to see that Obama is exactly who he said he was the past several decades...a far left wing Marxist...and a fraud. The "apple" doesn't fall far from the "tree".


Dear Elizabeth:

It is unfortunate that the above CNN story didn't mention the 14 page

article that was a compendium of the 38 best editorial page endorsements from all over the United States, and neglected to mention, as we did in the

article, that we were justified in saying Obama Wins! because he had just

won the Scholastic Magazine election by mostly sixth graders.

These 38 endorsements, plus about 20 more, are posted at mybarackobama.com

in my personal blog, listed under Stephen Fox

They are also posted in 7 very long articles at opednews.com, and there is an opportunity to comment at will and at length.

This was not a stunt, whatsoever. Our next issue comes out 4 days after the election, and his victory would be old news by then. We are not seers nor fortune tellers, but we are like many Americans Poli Sci wonks, scholars,

and Democratic strategists. I personally have been concentrating on making happen the editorial page endorsement avalanche for Obama we are seeing now, and like a gardener, proud to hold up the first fruits of victory.

The comparison with the Chicago Tribune and Dewey is irrelevant. We are proud of endorsing him in this way, to just declare him the winner, which apparently folks would have known if they were still in 6th grade.

By making this out to be a "stunt" or a "prank," the Senior Political

Correspondent at CNN dismissed our motivation. Nonetheless, we are glad we did what we did, and certainly not "just to be first." The endorsements are all at OpEdNews.com and at mybarackobama.com at my blog site: read them in

succession, and you will comprehend more clearly our effort and its

integrity.


August! I think your comment is hilarious! Or are you serious?


absolutely disgusting man, stephen fox, what has this country come to?? you have no ethics, integrity as a journalist, TRYING TO SUPPRES THE VOTE!!!!! HOPING REPUBLICANS GIVE UP AND DON'T GO OUT AND VOTE, POLLS ARE CLOSING , NEW GALLUP HAS THEM NOW TWO POINTS DIFFERENCE, YOU FORGOT MCCAIN IS A FIGHTER, REMEMBER, COUNTRY FIRST, OBAMA HANGS WITH TERRORIST, WHACKOS, HIS REV.WRIGHT WHO OBAMA SAYS HE NEVER HEARD HIM SAY ONE BAD THING IN TWENTY YEARS, YEA , RIGHT!!! HE LIED, NOW THERE IS VIDEO THAT LAT'S WILL NOT RELEASE THATHAS OBAMA TOASTING THIS KALID GUY WHO USE TO BE WITH ARAFAT, WHO HATES JEWS, AND LO AND BEHOLD GUESS WHO WAS ALSO AT THIS DINNER, AYERS, REZCKO. NOW THIS EMPTY SUIT THAT YOU, AND ALL THE PRESS AND MEDIA HAVE BEEN IN THE TANK FOR JUST MIGHT BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT, WHAT A SAD STATE THIS COUNTRY IS COMING TO. LET ME TELL YOU MR. FOX, DON'T YOU EVER DARE TO SAY ONE THING EVER AGAINST O BAMA IF HE GETS ELECTED, ALL HIS HENCHMEN AND ALL HIS FOLLOWERS WILL CALL YOU '" RACIST"!!!!!! ANYONE NOT VOTING FOR HIM IS A RACIST, RIGHT????? THAT IS SUCH BS!!!!


Stephen Fox! I think your excuse is hilarious!

Or are YOU serious?


You idiots...Obummer will always be a loser.


I personally hate the fact that the newspaper did this! Shame on them. They could really jinx us. And it seriously undermines Obama's cautionary advice not to get cocky and to make sure you vote because we have not won yet. Polls aside. Media coverage aside. All that matters is votes. And with the voter suppression efforts which have been documented on several news stations right now, the democrats have to win by a wider margin to overcome legitimate voters that might get turned away, dropped votes on Diebold machines, etc. Every vote might not get counted in actuality, but every vote counts in the sense that Obama needs an overwhelming amount of support to ensure victory. This headline only encourages the sense of voter apathy. Obama supporters are better advised to watch the 'Obama loses by one vote' video and send it to all their friends, personalized with their friends' names on it. Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote people! Let's make sure we take back the white house this time.


Love the story and thanks for speaking about it. I must say when I turned on the news this morning I thought I missed Halloween and the elections. Either way this election goes, this newspaper has just made some history, not to mention a bunch of money.


I am not Joe the plumber. I am not Tito the builder. I am proud to be a United States citizen. I am a housewife and part-time sales clerk in a local mall. I have two sons in Houston, TX. One working for $45,000.00 a yr and the other working for $26,000. Last year my home was foreclosed on and we was forced to move from Houston to another state where my husband was fortunate enough to find a job after struggling for several years. The company he planned to retire from closed and moved overseas in 1997, when Clinton was President. We have struggled with multiple health issues for more than one family member. Struggling at times with no health insurance and depending on state aid for help. We have no retirement funds, no savings, pay rent for the home we currently live in, and still have a 16 year old that wants to go to college. We have no college fund for him. Our oldest son moved with us because he is also unemployed looking for work. You could say that we are the perfect democratic voter considering the facts of our situtation. That is not the case. For the first time in my adult life I am scared of this election! I am scared that Obama with all his anti-American connections will be our next President. This paper along with many other democratic reporters has used media leverage to brainwash the American people into believing Obama is the candidate best suited for the job. You are helping screw up this country more than it is already. Bush did not do more to harm this country than the democratic congress elected four years ago. Obama has too many secrets, bad associates and friends, a evil minister, and a screwed up plan for this country. Somebody needs to get their facts straight when it comes to Obama and they better do it before it is too late! Time is running out! It is not prejudice or racist to have concerns about a candidate that dodges important questions and has lots of negative contacts. Not one, not two, but too many to list, and the media is failing to do their job and get to the truth.

Wake up America! Wake up before it is too late! Know the candidate that you are voting for. Find out all you can. If there is just 1% doubt that your candidate has connections to radical muslims and anti-Americans than you better vote for the candidate that loves this country!!!!!!!!!! Vote for the candidate proud to place his hand over his heart and say the Pledge of the United States of America!


How unfortunate to see the words "love" by one and "hate" by another.

I am an Obama supporter but think it is wrong to put out a newspaper proclaiming a winner. This twice a month paper should have done what even some "daily" newspapers will do which is run a special election follow up edition. People should keep their emotions in check when posting to so many people. Using words like "hate" and making fun of peoples names just shows the lack of intelligence of the writer.


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