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Pundit Boxscore for Friday 29 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
Mona Charen
Creators Syndicate
You won't read it in the papers
29 April 2005
832 100 2R+
 As the: Alma Powell, Colin Powell
Daniel Henninger
WSJ OpinionJournal
Rush to Victory
29 April 2005
1165 95 7D-,11R+,1R=
Rush to: Rush
Why is: Harry Reid
In 1987,: Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh
As described: John Kerry
Contrary to: Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan: Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh
In 1994,: Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Gingrich
But a: Democrats, Bush
For Democrats,: Democrats, Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy, Senate Democrats, Bill Frist
Ann Coulter
Universal Press Syndicate
Drag liberals into the light
29 April 2005
1151 85 10D-,12R+,4R=
Democrats are: Democrats, Republicans, Democrats
It's no: Democrats, Republicans
In one: Republicans, Democrats
I am: Republican Senate, Republican president, Rush Limbaugh
The question: Republicans, Democrats
As I: Democrats
I think: Democrats
Democrats oppose: Democrats, President Bush, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Bush
But their: Tom DeLay
Democrats want: Democrats, Bush
Republicans are: Republicans, Republicans, Democrats, Bush
Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post
Our Own Cool Hand Luke
29 April 2005
889 62 2D+,12R+,2R=
On Monday,: Irving Kristol
He presided: Kristol
Kristol was: Kristol
It gathered: Kristol, Daniel Patrick Moynihan
This was: Kristol, Hubert Humphrey
This makes: Kristol
His longtime: Kristol, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, James Baker, Kristol
The main: Reagan, Kristol
Which is: Kristol
E. J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post
Bush the Egghead
29 April 2005
965 50 2D-,3D=,15R-,6R=
Bush the: Bush
President Bush's: President Bush
To the: George W. Bush, George W. Bush
I doubt: Bush, Bush
Many liberals: Bush, Adlai Stevenson, Democratic, Stevenson
The notion: Bush, George Wallace, Spiro T. Agnew, Richard Nixon
But with: Bush, Bush
The president's: The president
The problem: Bush
Unlike conservative: Bush, Bush
So it: Bush
Now that: Bush
In so: Bush, the president
Adlai Stevenson: Adlai Stevenson, president
Ellen Goodman
Washington Post Writers Group
Parental involvement can't be legislated
29 April 2005
868 50 2D+,1D=,1R=
Some version: Bill Frist, William Clay, Democratic
"The bill,": Clay
Eugene Robinson
Washington Post
Barreling Along Without a Clue
29 April 2005
917 44 1D-,5R-,3R=
President Bush: President Bush
Even gasoline: Jimmy Carter
"If I: Bush
In selling: Bush, administration
It shouldn't: administration, Bush
The reason: the president, the president
Paul Krugman
New York Times
A Private Obsession
29 April 2005
853 40 1D+,1R-,3R=
Yet any: Clinton
The president's: The president
Indeed, a: administration
O.K., let's: Bush, President Bush
David Ignatius
Inactive
Day of Deficit Reckoning?
29 April 2005
888
Thomas L. Friedman
Inactive
'What, Me Worry?'
29 April 2005
939