With less than two months left before the next U.S. president is elected, ScienceBlogs wanted to dedicate a space to campaign politics. A Vote For Science is a group blog that will focus on the candidates' science policies. It is 
In the latest issue of Science, an article on grass-roots efforts by scientists in the last weeks before the election brought up a startling point, that there have been a lot of letters to the Editor and OpEds published in newspapers either endorsing Obama or pointing out the errors of the McCain campaign rhetoric on science. What is absolutely amazing, is that there has not been a single letter or OpEd by a scientist endorsing McCain. Not ONE? Here is a partial list of OpEds and letters that have appeared. This is by no means a comprehensive list. In fact, these are almost all in battleground states. This is a really unusual thing to happen in an election and should be appreciated for sheer volume, not to mention the amount of thoughtful time put into writing these things.
The Huffington Post
The Arizona Republic
Boulder Daily Camera
Denver Post
Rocky Mountain News
The Aspen Times
Aspen Daily News
Miami Herald
Council Bluffs Nonpareil
SW Iowa news
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Evansville Courier
Indianapolis Star
Boston Globe
Detroit News
Mining Journal
Daily Press
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Helena Independent Record
The Billings Gazette
The Missoulian
The Missoulian
The Independent interview
Santa Fe New Mexican
Los Alamos Monitor interview
Albuquerque Journal interview
Reno Gazette Journal
Elko Daily Free Press
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Philadelphia Inquirer
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
XConomy
Puget Sound Business Journal
Computerworld
Crosscut (Seattle)
The Capital Times
The Industry Radar MT
UW Milwaukee Post
Oshkosh Advance Titan
LaCrosse Racquet
Whitewater Royal Purple
Eau Claire Spectator
Oshkosh Advance Titan
Lakeland Times
Wisconsin State Journal
The Capital Times
LA Times
Comments
Don't forget Nature endorsing a candidate for the first time in so long, nobody there remembers the last time it happened.
Posted by: Chris | October 31, 2008 3:32 PM