Foster's Daily Democrat

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Foster's Daily Democrat
Foster's headquarters
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Geo. F. Foster co.
Editor	Rod Doherty
Founded	1873
Headquarters	Dover, NH, U.S.

Website: http://fosters.com

Foster's Daily Democrat is a daily broadsheet newspaper published out of Dover, New Hampshire for the communities of Dover, Rochester, Portsmouth, and the surrounding communities in south-east New Hampshire and south-west Maine. Founded on June 18, 1873 by Joshua L. Foster as a pro-slavery alternate voice in anti-slavery New England.^[1]^[2] The paper has a circulation of around 30,000 and is published in the early afternoon. On Sundays, it is published in conjunction with The Citizen of Laconia as Foster's Sunday Citizen.

Currently, the Executive Editor of the paper is Rod Doherty, and the Managing Editor is Mary Pat Rowland.

[edit] Politics

Fosters is actually very conservative despite its name. It endorsed George Bush in the 2000 primaries and then no one in the general election. It has endorsed District 1 congressmen Jeb Bradley on a number of occasions^[3] and it is considered to be lucky for a Democratic candidate to get an endorsement nod from Fosters.

The many endorsements of Bradley are not due to him being the incumbent as the paper has been combative to local Democratic state congressmen who were incumbents.

This goes back to Joshua Foster who although naming the paper the Democrat was pro-slavery. There has since been a shift of the parties, the Republicans once progressive are now less so then in the late 1800's.

Colin Manning who headed up Foster's statehouse notebook later went on to be New Hampshire governor John Lynch's press secretary.^[4]