I've Been Noticing Something Strange In Local Newspapers

I read about 20-30 local newspapers on-line- the best way to read the news before Drudge and Fox News get their claws on different news articles of the day.
The one thing I have noticed since the Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his vice presidential candidate, the local newspapers have written many positive articles about the Romney and Ryan and the tone of the articles are positive towards Romney-Ryan and more negative towards Obama-Biden.  The coverage of the GOP convention has been nothing but glowing in most of the newspapers, with only a few communists columnists saying negative things.
I'm not sure why the local newspapers have been nice to the GOP but it certainly is a different, maybe they want a closer race or that the local newspapers are seeing through the crap Obama has thrown against the walls or maybe, just maybe they are beginning to think Romney and Ryan just aren't that bad as Obama and liberals claim.
Will this turn the election towards the GOP?  It doesn't hurt and maybe, just maybe the local newspapers see something half the voters in the U.S. don't see- Obamacrap.