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Pundit Boxscore for Sunday 22 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
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal
Trusting Pew
22 February 2004
921 100 2D-
The Pew: FDR
We're not: Democratic Party
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post
Ehrlich Inc.
22 February 2004
739 71 10R-,4R=
Ehrlich Inc.: Ehrlich
MARYLAND GOV.: Robert L. Ehrlich, Ehrlich
The organization,: Ehrlich, Ehrlich, Ehrlich
Mr. Ehrlich's: Ehrlich
The expanding: Ehrlich, Ehrlich, Ehrlich
Most of: Ehrlich
Yet Mr.: Ehrlich, Ehrlich, Ehrlich
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times
A Growing U.N. Role in Iraq
22 February 2004
814 40 1R+,5R-,4R=
President Bush: President Bush, Bush administration
Saddam Hussein: Bush administration, White House
It is: the president
Neither of: Bush administration
It is: administration, administration, Vice President Dick Cheney
Obviously it: Bush administration
David S. Broder
Washington Post
Dean: A Milestone, Not a Millstone
22 February 2004
1059 35 28D+,4D-,5D=,8R+,1R-,3R=
Dean: A: Dean
It almost: Howard Dean, Democratic Party
Dean is: Dean, Bush
That does: Democratic, Dean, John Kerry, John Edwards, Dean
Even acknowledging: Dean, Democratic, Dean
Think of: Barry Goldwater, Republican, George McGovern, Eugene McCarthy, Democrats
Ronald Reagan: Ronald Reagan, Goldwater, Bill Clinton, McGovern
It is: Goldwater, McGovern, Dean, McCarthy, president, Dean
That is: Goldwater, McCarthy, McGovern, Dean, Democrats
Until Dean: Dean, Democrats, Republicans, the president
It was: Dean, Democrats, Kerry, Edwards, Bush
Dean was: Dean, Bush
That does: Goldwater, McGovern, McCarthy
But the: Dean
The Democratic: Democratic Party
Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune
Iraq's lessons can help in Haiti
22 February 2004
856 33 1D+,1D=,1R+,2R-,1R=
When the: President Bill Clinton's administration
As a: Bush administration, administration
So as: Bush administration
Lesson 1:: Clinton
Secretary of: Secretary of State Colin Powell
Maureen Dowd
New York Times
I Read, I Smoke, I Spin
22 February 2004
947 30 2D-,6D=,2R+,12R-,5R=
Laura Bush: Laura Bush, Teresa Heinz Kerry
And she: Bushie
Many White: first lady
But I: W., Mary Matalin, Democrats
I always: Laura Bush, Bush, Bush, Barbara Bush
Not that: Lyndon Johnson
During the: Hillary
Bush advisers: Bush, the Clintons, Al Gore
But this: Bush, White House, Bush, White House
The woman: Democrats
Speaking to: Bush
Talking to: Bush, Terry McAuliffe, W.
The last: W.
The president: The president
Thomas Oliphant
Boston Globe
Edwards and Kerry split hairs on trade
22 February 2004
1048 9 10D+,8D-,13D=,1R+,2R-
Edwards and: Edwards, Kerry
NEEDING A: John Edwards, John Kerry, Edwards
Needing to: Kerry, Edwards
Kerry is: Kerry, Edwards, Kerry
Edwards and: Edwards, Kerry, President Bush
Edwards is: Edwards, Bush, Bill Clinton, Kerry
Kerry's approach: Kerry, Kerry, Clinton administration
Edwards, by: Edwards, Kerry, Edwards
Secondly, it: Edwards
Finally, Edwards: Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Dick Gephardt, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards
Neither Kerry: Kerry, Edwards, Bush
George F. Will
Washington Post
Rendering Politics Speechless
22 February 2004
1059 5 1D+,16D-,2D=,2R+,19R-,3R=
Two years: President Bush, McCain, Feingold, Bush, White House
And partly: McCain, Feingold, McCain, Feingold
Today McCain-Feingold: McCain, Feingold
Most campaign: McCain, Feingold, McCain, Feingold
Perhaps the: White House, McCain, Feingold, the president, Republican, Democratic
Supposedly, the: McCain, Feingold, McCain, Feingold
Actually, McCain-Feingold: McCain, Feingold, Republican, Democrats
Allowed, that: McCain, Feingold
McCain-Feingold's ban: McCain, Feingold, George Bush
ACT says: Democratic Party, McCain, Feingold
House Republicans: House Republicans, Democratic, Democrats
On Wednesday: McCain, Feingold, Republican National Committee
Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
The courage of Muslim moderates
22 February 2004
854 0
Thomas L. Friedman
Inactive
Meet the Zippies
22 February 2004
870
Jim Hoagland
Inactive
Respect the Iraqi Council
22 February 2004
887