Pioneer Press doesn't have anything up about endorsements.
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Fairfax County Times and the Loudoun Times-Mirror:
The "change" mantra can be claimed by either candidate. Obama brings the obvious: our first African American president with enormous inspiration and generational appeal. He represents a clean break from the Bush years and its record of intolerance, environmental neglect and poor planning. McCain has an actual record of change, which is easier said than done, and he is no George Bush. But while it is true that he's not Bush, his choice of Sarah Palin and other gut decisions are reminders of a blundering past. And, incidentally, we have wondered when it became exemplary to place bottom of your class in college?
The choice is yours and the country will be better for moving in new directions with either candidate. If Obama prevails, the country needs to watch his proclivity for building a welfare state in a time of growing federal control of the private sector. His liberal bent on health care and other expensive programs would be good for government-fueled Northern Virginia, yet they might dampen private enterprise and job creation across the country.
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The Roanoke Times refuses to take sides but asks a lot of questions:
Whoever wins in November will need to be ready, and voters should be asking themselves which candidate is demonstrating the calm leadership they would want the president to display during a crisis.
Which candidate turned the financial bailout into a campaign stunt, "suspending" his campaign and promising not to attend the first debate unless a deal was reached, a promise he then proceeded to break?
Which candidate has demonstrated a firm grasp of the economic issues facing the nation, and which has fluttered from proposal to proposal, desperately searching, by all appearances, for political traction rather than genuine solutions?
Which candidate showed more judgment and concern for the nation in picking a clearly qualified nominee as his running mate and which went with an untested and largely unknown choice selected more for her ability to energize his base than to govern if he could not?
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The Virginian-Pilot refused to endorse, but I can't find the article after going through several pages of editorials.
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Huntsville Times:
This year, The Times' editorial board decided not to recommend a candidate for president. Because we're a local paper, we simply can't match the mass of national and international coverage accorded to this contest. In addition, we don't have access to the candidates, as we have at the state and local level.
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