The A-section of the Saturday Wall Street Journal was so dominated with news and analysis on the the race for the White House that I thought I might have mistakenly picked up The Washington Post.

Nuanced in-depth coverage of the candidates pushed out virtually all other news, save a front page leader about rising unemployment rates giving investors the jitters. If you had the time to work through it, the whole package was a first-rate briefing of where the candidates stand. Obama rocking, Hilary and her expensive advisers flummoxed, Romney's polished executive shtick running out of gas, Huckabee an Iowa phenom and ultimately little more and McCain on the upswing, is the boiled down version if you don't have the hour or so to work through all the WSJ words.

Rupert Murdoch said all along he was going to make The Journal more of newspaper than a financial read and in the scant time he's been at the helm of the place he's made good on that promise. For the week, the story mix on page one is so much more in the wheelhouse of the New York Times, say, than the pre-Murdoch Journal. The News Corp supremo has told his lieutenants he wants his Wall Street Journal to be so all over the most interesting Presidential race in our lifetimes. What a way to take share away from The New York Times and supplant the Old Grey Lady as the national paper of record.