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Trib Endorses Obama

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Oct 17, 2008 8:05PM

The Chicago Tribune, which Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama called, "a Republican-leaning newspaper" in Wednesday's debate, has leaned the other way, endorsing Obama for president, the first time in the paper's history it has endorsed a Democrat for president.