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Pundit Boxscore for Sunday 8 February 2004

Lines in yellow indicate a substantive crossover column, meaning that the PI of the column differs by more than 100 points from the pundit's Normalized Total PI for the season, and the column 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
Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune
Unspoken conflicts
8 February 2004
934 100 2D+
Since former: Kweise Mfume
If there: Mfume
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post
Skewed Priorities
8 February 2004
742 93 13R-,1R=
IF THE: President Bush, administration, Bush
This is: administration, Bush
Because the: administration
Yet that's: administration
The administration: administration
The budget: administration, administration
The administration: administration, administration, Bush, administration
Maureen Dowd
New York Times
Murder Most Fowl
8 February 2004
870 75 3D+,2D=,9R-,2R=
Dadburn," Rummy: Rummy
Dick Cheney: Dick Cheney
One thing: Rummy
Now, with: White House, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney
"Sometimes," Rummy: Rummy
"The W.M.D.'s: Rummy
"Dick," Rummy: Rummy, Rove
"The kid: Kerry, Kerry, Dukakis
"Rove needs: Rove, J.F.K. , White House
David S. Broder
Washington Post
In GOP Country, Job Fears
8 February 2004
967 25 2D+,5D=,9R+,1R-,7R=
In GOP: GOP
COLUMBIA, S.C.: President Bush, Democratic
As it: Bush, Democratic, John Edwards
In this: Republicans
South Carolina: Bush
But even: Republican, Mark Sanford, Sanford, Edwards
Sanford said: Sanford
He pointed: John Kerry, Edwards, Republican, Democrat
Sanford is: Sanford, Republican
As difficult: Sanford
Fortunately for: Bush, the president, Bush
Then Sanford: Sanford
George F. Will
Washington Post
For Bush, It's Game Time
8 February 2004
938 24 1D+,3D-,1D=,2R+,10R-,8R=
For Bush,: Bush
After this: the president
Rhetorical carelessness: administration, the president
After the: President Bush, the president
Once begun,: president, the president
Republicans are: Republicans, Republican president, Republican-controlled Congress, Republican
The president: The president
Two post-1945: Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater
One reason: Bush, Bush, John Kerry
Bush, unlike: Bush, Kerry
Furthermore, this: president
So far,: the president, Democrats, Democratic
But if: the president
Peggy Noonan
WSJ OpinionJournal
Philosophy, Not Policy
8 February 2004
1759 8 2D+,3D-,10D=,8R+,13R-,16R=
Why Bush: Bush
President Bush's: President Bush
It was: The president, Democratic Party, Democratic, Democrats
But certain: the president, the president, Bush
You can: Bush, Bush
The president: The president
I never: Bush, Bush
I don't: Bush
Mr. Bush's: Bush, Bush, Bush
The Big: Bush, Bush, Teddy Kennedy, Bush, Bush
So Mr.: Bush
Which gets: Ronald Reagan, Reagan
Dwight Eisenhower: Dwight Eisenhower
George W.: George W. Bush, Bush, Clinton
He knows: Bush, Reagan
What we: Bush, John Kerry, Reagan, Walter Mondale, Bush, Reagan
John Kerry: John Kerry, Hillary Clinton
Democrats have: Democrats, Republicans, Bush, Democratic, Democratic, Republican, Democrats
Republicans think: Republicans
Speeches are: Kerry, Bush
If I: President Bush, Kerry
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times
A Success Worth Noting in Iraq
8 February 2004
678 0 1R+,1R-
The Bush: Bush administration
The case: President Bush
Jim Hoagland
Inactive
Europe's Growing Pains
8 February 2004
818
Thomas L. Friedman
Inactive
The Home Team
8 February 2004
939
Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
An Auschwitz in Korea
8 February 2004
1015 0
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal
Remembrance of Books Past
8 February 2004
987 0