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Pundit Boxscore for Saturday 1 January 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
Robert Novak
Creators Syndicate		 Early tax reform?
1 January 2005		 886 13 1D+,5D-,22D=,3R+,1R-,15R=
 WASHINGTON --: President Bush, Bill Thomas, Republicans, Thomas
 The White: White House, Bush, Thomas
 Republican members: Republican, Franklin D. Raines
 RainesRepublican side: RainesRepublican, President Clinton
 Raines and: Raines
HILLARY'S AIDE: HILLARY
 The decision: Ann Lewis, Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton
 Lewis says: Lewis, Clinton, Lewis, Democratic party
 A footnote:: Clinton
DNC MANEUVERS: DNC
 Former Michigan: Jim Blanchard, Democratic National Committee, DNC, Mark Warner, Ed Rendell, Jennifer Granholm
 Where the: Bill Richardson, Democratic, Senate Democratic, Harry Reid, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi
 In the: DNC, Bill Clinton, Terry McAuliffe
 Sen. Sam: Sam Brownback, Republican
 Brownback, who: Brownback, Republican, Robert J. Dole, Dole
 Two other: Republican, Majority Leader Bill Frist, George Allen, Frist
Colbert I. King
Inactive		 A Test for Tolerance
1 January 2005		 1450
David Brooks
New York Times		 A Time to Mourn
1 January 2005		 803 0