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Pundit Boxscore for Tuesday 31 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
Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
Catapulting the propaganda
31 May 2005
921 83 5R-,1R=
05.31.05 -: George Bushes, W., Bush
Meanwhile, back: Bush
What I: Bush
Bush is: Bush
Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times
Day 141 of Bush's Silence
31 May 2005
853 60 1R+,4R-
Day 141: Bush
And while: George W. Bush, Bush
Magboula and: President Bush, Bush
Eugene Robinson
Washington Post
Mideast Mission Unaccomplished
31 May 2005
902 31 5R+,1R-,7R=
It was: first lady Laura Bush
When it: the president, Laura Bush
As an: first lady , Laura Bush
First ladies: Laura Bush, Laura Bush
The Laura: Laura Bush
The first: first lady
U.S. involvement: Bush administration, the president, first lady
If she: the president, Laura Bush
Brendan Miniter
WSJ OpinionJournal
The McCain Myth
31 May 2005
1424 17 4D+,5D-,10D=,17R+,8R-,15R=
The McCain: McCain
Having helped: John McCain, President Bush
The myth: McCain, McCain, the president
It's not: McCain, Republicans, President Clinton, Gerald Ford, Reagan, the Gipper
But even: Reagan, president, administration, Republicans, Vice President George Bush, Reagan
Now, however,: Republican Party, McCain, President Bush, McCain, Republican, Republicans
What's changed: Republican, Vice President Bush, Reagan, Bush, Republican, George W. Bush
Having come: McCain, Republican Senate
This is: Democrats, Democratic Leadership Council, Bill Clinton, Democrat, McCain, Marshall Wittmann, DLC, Democrats, Democrats
The most: DLC, President Bush, John Kerry, Democrats, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Paul Wellstone, Republican, Ronald Reagan, Democrats, John Kerry, President Bush, Democrats, Republican
As for: McCain, Democrats, Republicans, President Bush
Cal Thomas
Tribune Media Services
French chickens come home to roost
31 May 2005
747 0 1R=
President Bush: President Bush
John Tierney
New York Times
The Urge to Win
31 May 2005
1001 0
E. J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post
No Room For Dissent?
31 May 2005
901 0
Richard Cohen
Washington Post
Hilton the Huckster
31 May 2005
868 0 2R=
Arthur Aufderheide: John Bolton, the president
Thomas Sowell
Creators Syndicate
A relic of the recent past
31 May 2005
788 0
William Raspberry
Washington Post
Filling the Racial Gap in Academia
31 May 2005
856 0