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Pundit Boxscore for Thursday 19 May 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
George F. Will
Washington Post
History's Higher Ground
19 May 2005
828 100 1R+
When Yale: President John F. Kennedy
David Brooks
New York Times
Bashing Newsweek
19 May 2005
818 100 1R-
Then I: administration
Robert Novak
Creators Syndicate
Howard Dean unmuzzled
19 May 2005
937 73 1D+,24D-,8D=,10R+,2R=
Howard Dean: Howard Dean
WASHINGTON --: Howard Dean, Tom DeLay, Democratic, Dean, Democratic National Committee (DNC), Dean, Democratic
 Dean's election: Dean, DNC, Dean, Dean
 The party's: Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Dean, Dean, Democratic, Republican
 He was: Republican, Rick Santorum, Senate Republican Conference, Rush Limbaugh
 What he: Democratic, Dean, DeLay, Dean, DeLay
 National chairmen: Dean, Democrat, Barney Frank, Dean
 Dean's deficiencies: Dean, Democratic Party, DNC, Republican National Committtee (RNC), RNC, DNC
 Dean has: Dean, Democratic
 But the: Dean, Republican, Ken Mehlman
 Accordingly, anticipation: Howard Dean, Dean, Democrats
Brendan Miniter
WSJ OpinionJournal
A Question of Character
19 May 2005
1010 50 1D+,1D=
FDR is: FDR, Democratic
Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
Why Islam is disrespected
19 May 2005
943 33 1R-,2R=
From the: White House
Then there: Condoleezza Rice
Granted, Rice: Rice
Harold Meyerson
Washington Post
In L.A., a Pol for a Polyglot City
19 May 2005
959 31 9D+,4D-,2D=,1R=
Today, when: Democrats
For the: Antonio Villaraigosa, Jim Hahn
By Tuesday,: Villaraigosa, Hahn, Hahn, Villaraigosa
It should: Pete Wilson, Hahn, Villaraigosa
But like: Villaraigosa
Accordingly, when: Hahn, Villaraigosa
Villaraigosa's victory: Villaraigosa, Villaraigosa, Villaraigosa
David S. Broder
Washington Post
Nuclear Cloud Over The Senate
19 May 2005
1043 19 3D+,2D-,9D=,11R+,1R-,21R=
The personal: President Bush, Senate Democrats, Democratic
The White: White House, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Vice President Cheney, Republican, the president
Frist, who: Frist
And Minority: Harry Reid, Bush, Frist, Democrats
For traditionalists,: Frist, Republicans, Richard Lugar
However, they: Republican, GOP, Republicans, Democrat, Tom Daschle, Republicans
Many of: Republican
That is: Senate Republicans, John McCain, Trent Lott, Democrats, Lugar, Frist, Republicans, Democrats
In the: Arlen Specter, John Warner
Not all: Democratic, Thad Cochran, Richard Shelby
But I: Robert Bennett, Bennett, Democrats, Clinton administration, Bush
But Bennett: Bennett, Republicans, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Senate, Harry Reid
That is: Republicans
Bob Herbert
Inactive
Bloomberg's Billionaire Boondoggle
19 May 2005
927
Jim Hoagland
Inactive
Global Power Plays
19 May 2005
911