Editor & Publisher magazine is calling it an editorial endorsement landslide — even a rout — as the tally of presidential endorsements by daily newspapers over the weekend and updated today mushroomed to 194 opining in favor of Barack Obama vs. 82 for John McCain. The figure included several papers that traditionally endorse Republican but have switched to Democrat this time around.

The tally so far for New Mexico papers is 3-1, with the Santa Fe New Mexican, Las Cruces Sun-News and, in what surprised many of its readers, the Farmington Daily Times, recommending Obama, with the Roswell Daily Record going for McCain.

The state’s largest newspaper, the Albuquerque Journal, is just a few days into its string of local election endorsements and ballot recommendations and, based on past practices, will likely come out with its picks for the top offices of president and U.S. Senate on Sunday, just two days before the election.

In what it called “a pointed move,” E&P noted that Alaska’s biggest paper, the Anchorage Daily News, endorsed Obama, although the paper historically has leaded Democrat.

Also significant:

The Hartford Courant endorsed Obama this weekend, making it the newspaper’s second endorsement of a Democratic presidential candidate in its 244-year history.

Over the weekend, according to E&P:

Two more major papers that had backed Bush in 2004 – the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Providence Journal – came out for Obama, joining at least 35 others who had done the same thing already.

In another embarrassment for McCain, the Indianapolis Star, which also supported Bush in 2004, revealed that it would not endorse this year. At least two other Bush 2004 papers, the Ann Arbor (Mich.) News and the Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star, took the same route.

Another paper just now backing Obama: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, which made no endorsement in 2004. He also earned the nod from the Financial Times and the Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune endorsed Obama online late Saturday (while also backing the Republican incumbent for U.S. Senate, Norm Coleman, over Al Franken). The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel also threw its weight to Obama, as did the Des Moines Register and the Bergen Record in New Jersey.

Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s lack of experience and qualifications were cited as a factor in several of the dailies:

The Baltimore Sun joined its Tribune brothers and sisters in backing Obama, calling (like so many others before it) Sarah Palin utterly unqualified for higher office. The Star Tribune also highlighted that problem: “Sen. John McCain distinguished himself as an American hero who served his country with honor, but he made a grievous error in his choice of running mate, the newspaper said.

“McCain is well aware that the No. 1 qualification of a vice president should be readiness for the top job. Palin does not have the depth of experience to assure Americans she would be ready to run the country.”

E&P is keeping a running tally, which is updated frequently.