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Pundit Boxscore for Thursday 19 February 2004

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
Harold Meyerson
Washington Post
Democrats Break a Taboo
19 February 2004
1114 51 20D+,3D-,11D=,1R+,4R-
Democrats Break: Democrats
Things are: Democrats, John Kerry, John Edwards, Democrats, Democratic
In Campaign: Democratic Party, Stan Greenberg, Democrats, Reagan, Democrats, Democratic, Walter Mondale
But this: Edwards, Kerry, Lyndon Johnson
It isn't: Democrats
But in: Democratic
I can: Bill Clinton
Third, and: Edwards, Kerry, administration, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards
But Edwards: Edwards, Kerry, administration, Howard Dean, Dick Gephardt, Joe Lieberman, Mondale, Mario Cuomo
What Kerry,: Kerry, Edwards, Democratic, George W. Bush, Republican, Democrats
Richard Cohen
Washington Post
Waiting for Edwards
19 February 2004
975 48 1D+,14D-,6D=,1R-,3R=
Waiting for: Edwards
In his: John Edwards, Edwards, Edwards
John Kerry: John Kerry, Howard Dean, Democratic, Republicans, Kerry, White House
Edwards has: Edwards, Edwards, Edwards
One of: Dean, George W. Bush
Edwards, too,: Edwards
What I: Edwards, Edwards, Edwards
I know: Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, Bush
Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
Life without Dean
19 February 2004
1021 48 11D+,2D-,5D=,1R+,2R-
Life without: Dean
02.19.04 -: Democrats, John Kerry
I say: Kerry, John Edwards, Kerry, Edwards
I recommend: John Edwards, Edwards, Bushies
One of: Kerry, William Weld, Kerry
Edwards might: Edwards
Meanwhile, the: Howard Dean, Dean
But he: Rush Limbaugh
What was: Howard Dean, Dean
Sure, Dean: Dean
I think: Howard Dean
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
19 February 2004
902 45 2D+,25D-,16D=,1R+,1R-,6R=
Dean the: Dean
He's the: Barry Goldwater
Howard Dean's: Howard Dean, Democratic, Barry Goldwater
Perhaps because: Dean, Democratic, Bush, Democratic, Democratic Party, Dean, Democratic
On the: Dean, John Kerry, John Edwards, Dick Gephardt, Joe Lieberman
Mr. Dean: Dean, Bush, Democrat, Edwards, Kerry, Dean, Dean
Mr. Dean's: Dean, Kerry, Dean
Mr. Kerry: Kerry, Dean, Democratic, Edwards, Republicans
It is: Democratic, Dean, President Bush, Dean, the President, Kerry, Bush
Yet we: Dean, Democratic, Bill Clinton, Dean, Kerry, Democrats, Clintonites, Hillary Clinton, Dean, Kerry
"What we: Dean, Democrats
Ann Coulter
Universal Press Syndicate
File under: 'Omission Accomplished'
19 February 2004
1273 44 3D+,14D-,18D=,8R+
Liberals are: Max Cleland, Jack Reed, George Bush
I would: Democrats, Clintonesque, Cleland
It is: Max Cleland
In Cleland's: Cleland, Cleland
I wouldn't: Democrats, Cleland, George Bush, Cleland, Bush
And yet: Cleland, Cleland
But it: Cleland, Saxby Chambliss, Cleland, Cleland, Cleland
One of: Cleland
Finally, the: Cleland, Cleland
Cleland hunched: Cleland
Interestingly, all: Cleland
"He told: Cleland
"[Cleland] didn't: Cleland
"Cleland was: Cleland, Democratic Senate, Max Cleland
The story: Democrats, Cleland, Republicans, Republicans, Cleland, Democrats, George Bush, Cleland
Cleland even: Cleland
Cleland's true: Cleland, Democrats, George Bush
Peggy Noonan
WSJ OpinionJournal
Broken Glass Democrats
19 February 2004
1539 24 6D+,3D=,15R+,2R-,3R=
Broken Glass: Democrats
Can their: Bush
A few: the president
The president: The president
What the: the president
We left: the president
It is: Democratic Party, Republicans, the president, Democrats, Democratic, Republicans, Republican, Bush
Here are: Democrats
Have you: Teddy Kennedy, Howard Dean, Democrats, Republicans, Democrats
What may: Republicans, the president
Mr. Bush: Bush, Bush, Republicans
Someone said: Bush, Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush
George W.: George W. Bush
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post
Defining Moments
19 February 2004
782 12 7D+,11D-,14D=,1R=
THE CLOSER: Democratic, Howard Dean, John Edwards, John F. Kerry, Kerry, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry
Mr. Kerry: Kerry, Edwards, Democratic Party, Kerry, Democratic
And both: Kerry, Edwards, Kerry, Kerry, Bush, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Dean, Kerry
Mr. Edwards,: Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, Kerry, Democratic, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards
David S. Broder
Washington Post
The Real World And the Senate
19 February 2004
1011 7 7D+,3D-,25D=,1R+,7R=
The current: Democratic, Democratic
The tickets: Kennedy, Johnson, Johnson, Humphrey, Humphrey, Muskie, George McGovern, Tom Eagleton
But the: Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton
In 2000: Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, Democratic, John Kerry, John Edwards
Is that: Democratic, John Kennedy
The senators: Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale, Gore, Democrats
If that: Republicans
Edwards's great: Edwards
Kerry has: Kerry
Because Howard: Howard Dean, Dean
Not surprisingly,: Kennedy, Bob Dole
The conventional: George Bush, Kerry, Edwards, Bush
Edwards has: Edwards, Bush, Kerry, administration
So if: Bush, Republican president
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times
And Now There Are Two
19 February 2004
901 0 8D+,7D-,9D=,1R+,2R=
On behalf: Democratic
For a: Howard Dean, Democratic, John Kerry, John Edwards, Kerry, Edwards
Senator Edwards: Edwards, George Bush, Edwards, Edwards
Senator Kerry,: Kerry, President Bush
Mr. Edwards: Edwards, Kerry, Kerry
Both men: Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Kerry, Kerry, George Bush
Mr. Edwards: Edwards, Kerry, Bill Clinton, Edwards, Kerry
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Inactive
Character Assassination
19 February 2004
1406
Thomas L. Friedman
Inactive
Look Who’s Talking
19 February 2004
812
Thomas Sowell
Creators Syndicate
Equality, inequality, and fate
19 February 2004
721 0
Bill O'Reilly
BillOReilly.com
Hating Mel
19 February 2004
711 0
Cal Thomas
Tribune Media Services
Reflected virtue
19 February 2004
775 0