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Pundit Boxscore for Wednesday 13 April 2005

Lines in yellow indicate a substantive crossover column, meaning that the column is of opposite sign to the pundit's Normalized Total PI for the season, and contains at least five non-neutral partisan references.
Lines in gray indicate that the pundit has been classified as inactive, meaning that their columns are not currently being evaluated for partisanship.
Democratic references in blue, Republican in red, positive references in bold, negative in italics.
Author/
Affiliation
Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
Joe Conason
New York Observer
DeLay's 'moral' defenders ignore his sleazy allies
13 April 2005
997 100 1D+,24R-
DeLay's 'moral': DeLay
04.13.05 -: House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
For a: DeLay
The top: Jack Abramoff, DeLay, Abramoff, Republican
Among the: Abramoff, Ralph Reed, Reed, Abramoff
For a: Reed, Abramoff
Surely Mr.: Reed, Abramoff
Still uglier: DeLay, Abramoff
Several years: Clinton administration, Abramoff, Republican, DeLay
Promoted by: DeLay, Abramoff
With sweatshops,: DeLay, DeLay
Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Pandering to the crackpot left
13 April 2005
898 80 14D-,5D=,10R+,1R=
It looks: Teresa Heinz Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Republican Party
 You'll recall: Heinz Kerry, Democrats, Heinz Kerry, Heinz Kerry
 Cue the: Heinz Kerry
 Asked for: Democrats, Bush
 Immediately after: John Kerry, Kerry, Republican
 Kerry activists: Kerry, Republican
 Not a: Kerry, Democrats, GOP, Bush, Cheney, Bush, Republican, Democratic, Republican
 Singing from: Hillary Clinton, Democratic, Clinton
 The crowd: Clinton
 The Democrats: Democrats, Karl Rove
Linda Chavez
Creators Syndicate
The press shows its bias
13 April 2005
940 54 10D-,1D=,5R+,1R-,9R=
Tom DeLay: Tom DeLay, Republican, Bob Livingston, DeLay, Tom DeLay, DeLay, Clinton, Samuel "Sandy" Berger, Clinton administration
 Like many: DeLay, DeLay
 The congressional: DeLay
 In the: DeLay, DeLay, Jack Abramoff, DeLay, Democrats
 Which brings: DeLay, Clinton, Sandy Berger, Berger, Berger, Berger
 Could it: Berger, Bill Clinton, Tom DeLay
Tony Blankley
Creators Syndicate
Keep DeLay, or pay the price
13 April 2005
1047 48 3D-,1D=,15R+,4R-,6R=
Keep DeLay,: DeLay
I understand: Democrats, Tom DeLay, Democrats
 I also: Bob Livingston, Delay, Delay, Democratic Party
 But, as: Republicans
 I have: Republican, Barry Goldwater, Republicans, Republican Party, Republicans
 They should: Goldwater, Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Republican Party
 Tom DeLay: Tom DeLay, Bush, Republican
 The last: Republicans
 Tom DeLay: Tom DeLay, Democrats, Tom DeLay
 That was: DeLay, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans
Harold Meyerson
Washington Post
Greetings From Mexistan
13 April 2005
927 30 3R+,6R-,1R=
It may: Condoleezza Rice
It is: President Bush, Bush
And what: the president
Not quite.: Condi Rice, Bush administration
Democracy may: Bush, president, vice president of the United States
So, democracy: Bush
Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune
A happy face on a gloomy second term
13 April 2005
941 25 1D+,1D-,3D=,3R+,11R-,13R=
A politician: President Bush
As he: Bush, Bush
Although Bush: Bush, Bush
And if,: Bush, Bush, Democratic, Bush
It appears: Republicans, Bush
A Wall: Republicans, Bush
Half of: Republicans, the president
Like most: Republicans, Bush
Although 87: Republicans, Bush
But Bush: Bush, Republican, Congressional Democrats, Republicans
Backlash makes: Bush, Bush
As most: Bush
Regarding Bush's: Bush, Democrats
Sooner or: Democrats
For now,: Bush, congressional Democrats
Yet, when: the president
Ellen Goodman
Washington Post Writers Group
Conviction: not always a virtue
13 April 2005
906 17 2D=,1R+,3R=
In Rome,: Bill Clinton, President Bush, the president
When the: the president
We saw: Ronald Reagan, John Kerry
Anne Applebaum
Inactive
The Drug Approval Pendulum
13 April 2005
974
Brendan Miniter
WSJ OpinionJournal
Cracking the Code
13 April 2005
702 0 2D=,7R=
To most: President Bush
"Tax reform": Republican, Connie Mack, Democrat, John Breaux
The bureaucracy,: the president
That's not: the president, the president, President Bush
Kathleen Parker
Tribune Media Services
Florida politics key to next presidency - again
13 April 2005
997 0 14D=,1R+,1R-,19R=
And 2006: Democrats, Democrats, Republicans
The key: Hillary Clinton
Think Election: Katherine Harris, Democratic, Bill Nelson
If you're: Republican, Harris, Democrat, Harris, Al Gore, George W. Bush
If you're: Democrat, Katherine Harris, Democrats, Harris
If you're: Republican, Harris
We'll soon: Harris, White House, Mel Martinez, Harris
Republicans are: Republicans, Harris
Even offering: Democratic
Best bets: Democratic, Democrat
Jim Davis,: Jim Davis
Among Republicans,: Republicans, Toni Jennings
Who will: Katherine Harris
If Harris: Harris, Republicans, President Clinton
Maureen Dowd
New York Times
Recline Yourself, Resign Yourself, You're Through
13 April 2005
880 0
David Ignatius
Inactive
Will Democrats Seize the Opening?
13 April 2005
1020
Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
The New Economic Warriors
13 April 2005
860 0
Cal Thomas
Tribune Media Services
Beauty and the beasts
13 April 2005
724 0
Thomas L. Friedman
Inactive
The Calm Before the Storm?
13 April 2005
939
Walter E. Williams
Inactive
Stupid airport security II
13 April 2005
680