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Pundit Boxscore for Monday 16 February 2004

LIFE IS GOOD: Yessss!

KAUSFILES MATCHING GAME: Match the columnist on the left with the correct Mickey Kaus description on the right (scroll down):

1. Joe Conasona. courting major embarassment
2. David Brooksb. the soul of a New York P.R. man
3. William Safirec. the perfect hack



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
William Raspberry
Washington Post		 Helping Haiti
16 February 2004		 699 100 3D+
Doing nothing,: Walter E. Fauntroy
And for: Fauntroy
"I used: Fauntroy
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal		 Autism and Vaccines
16 February 2004		 937 67 2R+,1R=
When Republican: Republican, Majority Leader Bill Frist, Republican
William Safire
New York Times		 The Five Sisters
16 February 2004		 829 60 3R-,2R=
You say: Bush Justice Department
But what: John McCain
McCain's plaintive: McCain
How are: McCain, Bush
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post		 No State Secrets
16 February 2004		 536 25 1D-,2R-,1R=
The decision: GOP, Republican, Democrats, GOP
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times		 Half a Proliferation Program
16 February 2004		 662 0 2R+,2R-,4R=
President Bush: President Bush
Mr. Bush: Bush, Bush
The president: The president
Over the: Bush
Mr. Bush: Bush
Those countries: administration, Bush
Jackson Diehl
Inactive		 Winning the Post-Postwar
16 February 2004		 938
Bob Herbert
Inactive		 Promises, Promises
16 February 2004		 829