For those of you who follow politics regularly (and at this point that probably includes anyone who's literate) it may feel like the op-ed pages of the nation's newspapers have been endorsing one candidate or another for the past eighteen months. However! Get ready because the real presidential endorsements have only just begun.

You may not be surprised to hear that thus far Barack Obama is leading the media love-in race. E&P is reporting that Obama "won the day" yesterday by a 17-2 margin and is currently leading overall with 28 editorial endorsements to McCain-Palin's 11. Even the traditional conservatives have been jumping ship in droves. Gawker notes that Christopher Hitchens is the latest to join Charles Krauthammer, David Brooks, Andrew Sullivan (an early and ferocious adapter), Christopher Buckley, in giving Obama the nod.