Talk:New York Times Presidential Endorsements

Endorsements by the New York Times since 1860

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Year	Endorsed	Opponent(s)	Winner
1860	Abraham Lincoln, Republican	Bob Smith, Whig	Lincoln
1864	Abraham Lincoln, Republican	Bob Smith, Whig	Lincoln
2	1/28/56	7	7	What Am I Worth, co-written by Jones
3	7/14/56	7	8	You Gotta Be My Baby, written by Jones
4	10/20/56	3 (1)	11	Just One More, written by Jones
5			5	Gonna Come Get You (Juke Box flip side hit, apparently, of Just One More), written by Jones
6	1/26/57	10	1	Yearning (with Jeanette Hicks), co-written by Jones
7	3/9/57	10	2	Don't Stop The Music, written by Jones
8			1	Uh, Uh, No (Juke Box flip side hit, apparently, of Don't Stop The Music), written by Jones
9	6/10/57	13	6	Too Much Water, co-written by Jones
10	4/14/58	7	10	Color of the Blues, co-written by Jones
11	11/17/58	6	16	Treasure of Love, co-written by Jones
12	12/8/58	29	1	If I Don't Love You (Grits Ain't Groceries), flip side, apparently, of Treasure of Love, co-written by Jones
13	3/9/59	1 (5)	22	White Lightning
14	7/20/59	7	13	Who Shot Sam, co-written by Jones
15	11/23/59	15	12	Money To Burn
16	11/23/59	19	12	Big Harlan Taylor, flip side, apparently, of Money To Burn
17	4/4/60	16	12	Accidentally On Purpose, co-written by Jones
18	4/25/60	30	1	Sparkling Brown Eyes, flip side, apparently, of Accidentally On Purpose
19	8/22/60	25	2	Out Of Control, co-written by Jones
20	11/7/60	2 (1)	34	The Window Up Above, written by Jones
21	5/29/61	16	2	Family Bible
22	6/19/61	1 (7)	32	Tender Years
23	9/18/61	15 (1)	3	Did I Ever Tell You (with Margie Singleton)
24	2/24/62	5	12	Aching, Breaking Heart
25	4/14/62	1 (6)	23	She Thinks I Still Care Grammy: Hall of Fame
26	4/28/62	17	5	Sometimes You Just Can't Win, flip side, apparently, of She Thinks I Still Care
27	6/16/62	11	10	Waltz Of The Angels (with Margie Singleton)
28	7/21/62	13	11	Open Pit Mine
29	8/25/62	28	1	You're Still On My Mind
30	10/6/62	3 (4)	18	A Girl I Used To Know (& The Jones Boys)
31	10/13/62	13	9	Big Fool Of The Year (& The Jones Boys), flip side, apparently, of A Girl I Used To Know
32	2/9/63	7	18	Not What I Had In Mind (& The Jones Boys)
33	4/6/63	29	1	I Saw Me (& The Jones Boys), co-written by Jones
34	5/4/63	3 (1)	28	We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds (with Melba Montgomery)
35	7/13/63	5	22	You Comb Her Hair
36	11/30/63	20	5	What's In Our Heart (with Melba Montgomery), co-written by Jones
37	12/7/63	17	7	Let's Invite Them Over (with Melba Montgomery), flip side, apparently, of What's In Our Heart
38	2/1/64	5	18	Your Heart Turned Left (And I Was On The Right)
39	2/8/64	15	9	My Tears Are Overdue, flip side, apparently, of Your Heart Turned Left (And I Was On The Right)
40	3/28/64	39	3	The Last Town I Painted
41	6/6/64	31	7	Something I Dreamed
42	6/20/64	10	16	Where Does A Little Tear Come From, flip side, apparently, of Something I Dreamed
43	9/5/64	31	5	Please Be My Love (with Melba Montgomery)
44	9/26/64	3 (6)	28	The Race Is On
45	12/12/64	25	15	Multiply The Heartaches (with Melba Montgomery)
46	1/30/65	15	15	Least Of All
47	3/13/65	9	21	Things Have Gone To Pieces
48	4/24/65	16	10	I've Got Five Dollars And It's Saturday Night (George & Gene) (with Gene Pitney)
49	6/5/65	14	12	Wrong Number, co-written by Jones
50	7/3/65	25	7	Louisiana Man (George & Gene) (with Gene Pitney)
51	8/28/65	6	18	Love Bug
52	10/9/65	40	3	What's Money, co-written by Jones
53	11/6/65	8	18	Take Me, co-written by Jones
54	11/20/65	50	2	Big Job (George & Gene) (with Gene Pitney)
55	3/12/66	6	17	I'm A People
56	3/12/66	46	3	World's Worse Loser
57	6/4/66	47	3	That's All It Took (George & Gene) (with Gene Pitney), co-written by Jones
58	6/25/66	30	7	Old Brush Arbors
59	7/30/66	5	16	Four-O-Thirty-Three, co-written by Jones
60	11/19/66	70	3	Close Together (As You And Me) (with Melba Montgomery)
61	1/21/67	1 (2)	22	Walk Through This World With Me
62	5/20/67	5	17	I Can't Get There From Here
63	9/9/67	24	10	Party Pickin' (with Melba Montgomery)
64	10/7/67	7	18	If My Heart Had Windows
65	2/3/68	8	14	Say It's Not You
66	4/13/68	35	11	Small Time Laboring Man, co-written by Jones
67	7/6/68	3 (1)	13	As Long As I Live
68	9/28/68	12	12	Milwaukee, Here I Come (With Brenda Carter)
69	11/23/68	2 (2)	17	When The Grass Grows Over Me'
70	3/29/69	2 (2)	18	I'll Share My World With You
71	7/19/69	6	14	If Not For You
72	11/15/69	6	14	She's Mine
73	11/22/69	72	13	No Blues Is Good News, flip side, apparently, of She's Mine
74	3/14/70	28	10	Where Grass Won't Grow
75	7/4/70	13	14	Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong (And The Jones Boys)
76	11/21/70	2 (1)	1	A Good Year For The Roses
77	3/20/71	10	13	Sometimes You Just Can't Win, new version of his 1962 hit
78	6/12/71	7	14	Right Won't Touch A Hand
79	10/2/71	13	12	I'll Follow You (Up To Our Cloud)
80	12/25/71	9	13	Take Me (with Tammy Wynette), new version of his 1965 hit, co-written by Jones
81	2/12/72	6	14	We Can Make It
82	2/12/72	30	8	A Day In The Life Of A Fool
83	5/20/72	2 (1)	14	Loving You Could Never Be Better
84	7/8/72	6	15	The Ceremony (with Tammy Wynette)
85	10/14/72	46	7	Wrapped Around Her Finger, co-written by Jones
86	10/28/72	5	16	A Picture Of Me (Without You)
87	11/25/72	38	9	Old Fashioned Singing (with Tammy Wynette)
88	3/3/73	6	14	What My Woman Can't Do, co-written by Jones
89	4/7/73	32	9	Let's Build A World Together (with Tammy Wynette)
90	6/23/73	7	13	Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half As Bad As Losing You)
91	9/1/73	1 (2)	17	We're Gonna Hold On (with Tammy Wynette), co-written by Jones
92	11/24/73	3 (1)	16	Once You've Had The Best
93	2/9/74	15	13	(We're Not) The Jet Set (with Tammy Wynette)
94	4/6/74	25	12	The Telephone Call (with stepdaughter Tina)
95	6/8/74	1 (1)	17	The Grand Tour
96	7/27/74	8	12	We Loved It Away (with Tammy Wynette)
97	10/26/74	1 (1)	13	The Door
98	3/22/75	10	14	These Days (I Barely Get By), co-written by Jones
99	5/17/75	25	13	God's Gonna Get'cha (For That) (with Tammy Wynette)
100	7/26/75	21	11	Memories Of Us
101	11/1/75	92	4	I Just Don't Give A Damn, flip side, apparently, of Memories Of Us, co-written by Jones
102	2/7/76	16	12	The Battle
103	5/22/76	37	9	You Always Look Your Best (Here In My Arms)
104	6/5/76	1 (1)	15	Golden Ring (with Tammy Wynette)
105	9/4/76	3 (2)	16	Her Name Is
106	12/11/76	1 (2)	16	Near You (with Tammy Wynette)
107	5/21/77	34	8	Old King Kong
108	7/16/77	5	13	Southern California (with Tammy Wynette)
109	8/13/77	24	10	If I Could Put Them All Together (I'd Have You)
110	1/7/78	6	14	Bartender's Blues (James Taylor vocal harmony)
111	7/1/78	11	13	I'll Just Take It Out In Love
112	12/9/78	7	13	Mabellene (with Johnny PayCheck)
113	5/26/79	14	11	You Can Have Her (with Johnny PayCheck)
114	6/30/79	22	11	Someday My Day Will Come
115	3/1/80	2 (1)	14	Two Story House (with Tammy Wynette)
116	4/12/80	1 (1)	18	He Stopped Loving Her Today
117	6/2/80	31	9	When You're Ugly Like Us (You Just Naturally Got To Be Cool) (with Johnny PayCheck)
118	8/23/80	2 (1)	17	I'm Not Ready Yet
119	9/6/80	19	11	A Pair Of Old Sneakers (with Tammy Wynette)
120	12/13/80	18	12	You Better Move On (with Johnny PayCheck)
121	1/17/81	8	15	If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)
122	10/3/81	1 (1)	17	Still Doin' Time
123	2/6/82	5	19	Same Ole Me (Oak Ridge Boys backing vocals)
124	8/7/82	1	15	Yesterday's Wine (with Merle Haggard)
125	12/4/82	10	19	C. C. Waterback (with Merle Haggard)
126	1/15/83	3 (2)	19	Shine On (Shine All Your Sweet Love On Me)
127	5/7/83	1 (1)	18	I Always Get Lucky With You
128	9/10/83	2 (1)	22	Tennessee Whiskey
129	12/17/83	6	18	We Didn't See A Thing (with Ray Charles and Chet Atkins)
130	4/7/84	3 (2)	19	You've Still Got A Place In My Heart
131	9/22/84	2 (3)	23	She's My Rock
132	12/22/84	15	16	Hallelujah, I Love You So (with Brenda Lee)
133	4/27/85	19	18	Size Seven Round (Made Of Gold) (with Lacy J. Dalton)
134	8/3/85	3 (1)	20	Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?
135	11/23/85	3 (2)	22	The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)
136	4/19/86	9	21	Somebody Wants Me Out Of The Way
137	9/13/86	10	23	Wine Colored Roses
138	1/17/87	8	20	The Right Left Hand
139	5/16/87	26	18	I Turn To You
140	12/19/87	26	14	The Bird
141	2/26/88	52	10	I'm A Survivor
142	6/4/88	63	6	The Old Man No One Loves
143	9/3/88	43	10	If I Could Bottle This Up (with Shelby Lynne)
144	12/17/88	5	20	I'm A One Woman Man
145	4/29/89	26	13	The King Is Gone (So Are You)
146	7/29/89	31	16	Writing On The Wall
147	11/11/89	62	6	Radio Lover
148	9/8/90	8	20	A Few Ole Country Boys (with Randy Travis)
149	8/31/91	32	20	You Couldn't Get The Picture
150	1/11/92	55	14	She Loved A Lot In Her Time
151	4/11/92	60	7	Honky Tonk Myself To Death
152	10/17/92	34	20	I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair (with Vince Gill, Mark Chesnutt, Garth Brooks, Travis Tritt, Joe Diffie, Alan Jackson, Pam Tillis, T. Graham Brown, Patty Loveless, and Clint Black)
153	3/20/93	65	6	Wrong's What I Do Best
154	11/13/93	24	20	High-Tech Redneck
155	3/12/94	52	10	Never Bit A Bullet Like This (with Sammy Kershaw)
156	11/12/94	56	7	A Good Year For The Roses (with Alan Jackson)
157	7/1/95	69	4	One (with Tammy Wynette)
158	9/14/96	66	6	Honky Tonk Song
159	9/20/97	14	20	You Don't Seem To Miss Me (with Patty Loveless)
160	5/08/99	30	20	Choices
161	11/6/99	45	20	The Cold Hard Truth
162	11/20/99	30	13	A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Version) (with Hank Williams, Jr. and Chad Brock)
163	5/13/00	55	12	Sinners And Saints
164	8/4/01	47	9	The Man He Was
165	10/13/01	24	20	Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?) (with Garth Brooks)
166	3/30/02	55	1	50,000 Names
167	4/23/05	26	23	4th Of July (with Shooter Jennings)