Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Hot Off the Press: N.H. primary shocker

New Hampshire election officials had barely finished counting votes last night when pundits were dubbing senators Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and John McCain of Arizona the Comeback Kids. Here's how some Gannett papers played news of the presidential primary upset on front pages this morning.

The Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, N.Y., led with a strong victory photo of Clinton that I saw on a lot of fronts:

The Detroit Free Press hung bunting; I'm not so crazy about the blue and red backgrounds surrounding the lede photos . . .

And Florida Today played the story big while also sticking close to its bread-and-butter focus on space news:

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