With the campaign for Ohio in full swing, Barack received a strong endorsement from today's Dayton Daily News:  

If you see [the presidency] as being about leadership and inspiration and the shaping of a vision for the nation's future, then Sen. Barack Obama is the choice.

The endorsement notes that:

The heart of Sen. Obama's campaign pitch has been exactly right and well chosen:

The country profoundly needs a restart in its approach to political combat... Sen. Obama gives every indication of being a realist. He knows his election will not be followed by an era of sweetness and light. But he is right in insisting that there's nothing inevitable about the current level of poison in our politics.

Just as importantly, the Daily News challenges the idea Barack is somehow an unknown factor, or that his campaign is merely symbolic:

The country has had a chance to size him up over a long campaign. His two books, his six-year record in the Illinois legislature, his community activism before that, and his leadership as a Harvard law student all lead to the conclusion that he is a man of substance and dignity, not just a symbol.

He offers the Democrats a shot at one of their periodic restarts, like Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Bill Clinton. The moment should be seized.

Earlier in the month, Barack won the endorsement of the prestigious Cleveland Plain Dealer, as well as the Canton Repository.  

In Texas, Barack has received the endorsement of numerous papers, including all seven of the state's largest papers.  

See the list of over 100 newspapers that have endorsed Barack Obama . . .