LA Times endorses Obama; first nod since '72

The Los Angeles Times has endorsed Barack Obama for president, following up on the Washington Post's earlier editorial supporting the Illinois Senator.

It's the Times' first presidential endorsement since 1972, and Obama becomes the first Democrat to get the editorial board's support. The LAT editorial, which will appear in Sunday's paper, went online this afternoon.

So will the New York Times endorsement also be published in the fat Sunday edition? It will, at least according to Drudge, and unsurprisingly supporting Obama.

Andy Rosenthal, the NYT's editorial page editor, declined to comment on the Drudge teaser. But unlike the LAT, he told Politico, the paper has no intention of posting earlier online.

UPDATE: Editor & Publisher reports that Obama's endorsement lead is now a 3-1 margin.

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