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Pundit Boxscore for Monday 25 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
Paul Krugman
New York Times
The Oblivious Right
25 April 2005
894 82 1D+,2D=,17R-,2R=
According to: John Snow, administration, Bush
Is the: administration, President Bush, Republican
Since November's: Tom DeLay, Bush
What's going: Bush
The administration's: administration
The same: Bush
In retrospect,: Bush
The point: Bush
The same: Republican, Rick Santorum
It all: Bush, Democrats
In that: administration, administration
Democracy Corps,: Democratic, Republican, Democrats
Cal Thomas
Tribune Media Services
A time for choosing II
25 April 2005
839 45 7D-,3D=,7R+,1R-,11R=
More than: Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Reagan
Republicans and: Republicans, Democrats
Senate Republicans: Senate Republicans, Republicans
Some Republican: Republican, Republicans, Democrats, Democrat
If this: Republicans
Vice President: Vice President Dick Cheney, Republican, Republican, Cheney, Democrat, Cheney
Some Democrats,: Democrats, Robert Byrd, Republicans, Byrd, Democrats, Democrats, Republicans, Republicans
There is: Republicans, Republican
William Raspberry
Washington Post
Fixing What Ails the Schools
25 April 2005
847 40 2R-,3R=
A week: Michael Bloomberg
The "mixed: Bloomberg
Bloomberg clearly: Bloomberg
Okay, the: Bloomberg
Bloomberg may: Bloomberg
Robert Novak
Creators Syndicate
The Bolton fiasco
25 April 2005
1054 7 1D+,8D-,5D=,4R+,16R-,33R=
The Bolton: Bolton
WASHINGTON --: White House, Republican Senate, John Bolton, Bolton
 Republicans, weak: Republicans, Democratic, George Voinovich, Democratic, Bolton, Voinovich, Republican, White House
 Presidential aides: Voinovich, Lincoln Chafee, Chuck Hagel, Republicans, Voinovich, Bolton, Richard Lugar, Democrats, Bolton
 The grim: Bolton, Senate Democrats, Christopher Dodd, Bolton, Dodd, Dodd, Bolton
 Dodd, in: Dodd, Bolton, Bolton
 In truth,: Dodd, Republican, James Watt, James Edwards, Raymond Donovan, William Clark, Everett Koop, Kenneth Adelman, Edwin Meese, Ted Olson, Porter Goss, Alberto Gonzales, Bolton
 The only: Dodd, Bolton, Democrat, Bolton, Bolton
 Voinovich, displaying: Voinovich, Bolton, Democrats, Chafee, Bolton, Democrats
 Republicans always: Republicans, Chafee, George Bush, Voinovich, Republican, administration
 The only: Republican, Bolton, Norm Coleman, Democrats, John Bolton
Ellen Goodman
Washington Post Writers Group
Welcoming the good old days
25 April 2005
889 0
Bob Herbert
Inactive
The Agony of War
25 April 2005
814
Sebastian Mallaby
Washington Post
The Democracy Trap
25 April 2005
853 0 1R=
This conclusion: Bush administration
John Fund
Inactive
The Secretaries Revolt
25 April 2005
1263