According to research, only if the endorsement contradicts a reader’s perception of the paper’s political biases. In other words, the Chicago Tribune‘s endorsement of Obama is powerful (mitigated, I think, by the fact that it is his hometown paper). The New York Times‘ — not so much.

Hat tip: Ryan Avent.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.