Foster's Daily Democrat

Foster's Daily Democrat

Foster's cover on October 16, 2008
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Local Media Group
Publisher	Patrice D. Foster
Editor	Rodney G. Doherty
Founded	1873
Headquarters	150 Venture Drive, Dover, New Hampshire 03820  United States
Circulation	20,053 daily, 24,428 Sunday in 2006.
Website	fosters.com

Foster's Daily Democrat is a six-day (Monday-Saturday) morning broadsheet newspaper published in Dover, New Hampshire, United States, covering southeast New Hampshire and southwest Maine. A sister paper, Foster's Sunday Citizen, publishes on Sunday.

In addition to its Dover headquarters, Foster's maintains news bureaus in Rochester and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Founded by Joshua L. Foster on June 18, 1873, the paper was named after the U.S. Democratic Party, which then was the conservative and less-popular party in New England. Foster was already known, by then, as a political firebrand; one of his previous publishing ventures had been the States and Union, a pro-slavery paper in nearby Portsmouth, New Hampshire, during the American Civil War.

Foster's Daily Democrat still takes a conservative line in its editorial pages, and its editorials tends to back Republicans. Foster's endorsed George W. Bush in the 2000 New Hampshire primary, although the paper backed no one in the general election. It also endorsed District 1 Congressman Jeb Bradley on a number of occasions and it is considered rare for a Democratic candidate to get an endorsement from Foster's. Foster's is in favor of the death penalty.

In the 2004 New Hampshire Democratic primary, the paper endorsed Joe Lieberman, generally considered a more conservative Democrat. Yet its editorial stated that readers should be "absolutely clear on one thing. Foster's Daily Democrat remains fully supportive of President Bush."