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Pundit Boxscore for Tuesday 28 June 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
Thou Shalt Split Hairs
28 June 2005
852 100 1D+
Decades ago,: Pat Moynihan
E. J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post
The New McCarthyism
28 June 2005
1137 83 13D+,4D=,1R+,27R-,2R=
The New: McCarthyism
In the: Karl Rove, McCarthyism
Named after: Joe McCarthy, McCarthyism, McCarthyism
What made: McCarthy, Dean Acheson, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Democratic, Adlai Stevenson, Dean Acheson
The McCarthyites': McCarthy
Rove's instantly: Rove, Rove, President Bush, Democrats
Liberals and: Democrats, Rove, Democrat, President Bush
But Rove: Rove, Rove, Howard Dean, Rove, Richard Durbin, D-
In the: Rove, Rove, Democratic Party, Ken Mehlman, Republican, Democratic, Senate Democratic, Durbin
On Friday: White House, Scott McClellan, Rove, McClellan, Democrats, Democrats, McClellan, Mehlman, Rove, Rove
Respectable opinion: Rove
Robert Scheer
Creators Syndicate
Iranian revolution is thriving in Iraq
28 June 2005
818 80 8R-,2R=
It was: White House
If he: President Bush, administration
Elections are: Bush White House
Ahmadinejad "is: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Thus, not: Bush
"I'm not: Bush
The tragic: Bush, Rumsfeld
At the: Bush administration
Brendan Miniter
WSJ OpinionJournal
The Defeatist Caucus
28 June 2005
1280 75 3D-,6R+,3R=
At a: President Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, the president
We can: administration
This history: Ted Kennedy, John Kerry
It took: Ronald Reagan, President Reagan, President Clinton, president
Thomas Oliphant
Boston Globe
In retreat on Social Security
28 June 2005
1025 67 6D+,1D-,2D=,13R-,5R=
WASHINGTON CONGRESSIONAL: CONGRESSIONAL Republicans, President Bush
With next: Bush
Instead, the: Republicans
That something: Bush, John Sununu
Instead, this: Republicans, Democrats, Bill Clinton
For now,: Robert Bennett
Also for: Democrats, Harry Reid, Bush, Bush
Progressive opinion,: Bennett
Ideas like: Bennett, the president, Republicans
This insistence: Reagan, Bush
The prospect: GOP, Bill Thomas
Solid Democrats: Democrats, Clinton, Al Gore, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Bob Kerrey
Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
Batten down the hatches
28 June 2005
1077 62 3D+,3D=,2R+,12R-,1R=
I am: Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove
Setting up: Limbaugh
The latest: Karl Rove, George Bush, Rove
This seemed: Democrats
"What is: Democrats
What a: the president, Democrat, Barbara Lee
Find me: Democratic, Republican, George Bush
The vote: Donald Rumsfeld
I did: administration
It is: Karl Rove, administration
The first: Democrats, President Bush
Batten down: administration
Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
The overused 'Nazi' insult
28 June 2005
1107 55 2D+,10D-,1D=,10R+,2R-,4R=
THE MOST: Dick Durbin
When another: Senate Democrat, Robert Byrd, Republican, Republican, Rick Santorum, Democrats, GOP, Republicans, Democrats
Why the: Democrat
None of: Durbin
Needless to: Al Gore, GOP, Republican, Condoleezza Rice, Bush, Gore, John Glenn, Republican
‘‘I compare: Charles Rangel, Republicans, Democrat, Major Owen, GOP, Newt Gingrich
Those who: congressional Republicans, congressional Republicans
This is: Bush
Richard Cohen
Washington Post
Right-Wing Sucker Punch
28 June 2005
892 27 3D+,1D-,3D=,3R+,5R-
Edward Klein: Hillary Clinton, Hillary, Clinton
I did: Hillary Clinton, Clinton
His book: the Clintons
This calculating: Karl Rove, the president, Bush, Democrats, Republicans
So Rove's: Rove, George W. Bush
If I: Rove, Hillary
Eugene Robinson
Washington Post
Runaway Racism
28 June 2005
882 0
Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times
To Catch a Thief
28 June 2005
817 0
Cal Thomas
Tribune Media Services
The constitution and the commandments
28 June 2005
749 0
John Tierney
New York Times
Bureaucrats and Indians
28 June 2005
931 0