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Pundit Boxscore for Wednesday 5 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
Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
A salute to the USS Abraham Lincoln
5 January 2005
848 100 1D-
Greetings, America-haters.: Teddy Kennedy
Harold Meyerson
Washington Post
The 'Other America' May Be Coming Back
5 January 2005
899 100 3D+,7R-
There's no: Bush administration, John F. Kennedy
I've culled: Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
Today, however,: president, President Bush, Bush
Having tossed: administration
Worse yet,: Bush, Bush
Linda Chavez
Creators Syndicate
Playing with fire
5 January 2005
864 83 1D+,7D-,23R+,4R=
President Bush: President Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, congressional Democrats, the president, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, President Bush, Gonzales
The first: Gonzales, Gonzales, George W. Bush, the president, White House
Most of: Gonzales, Gonzales, Democrats, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales
At issue: Gonzales, Gonzales, President Bush, Gonzales
The Democrats: Democrats, Gonzales, Bush, President Bush, the president, Democratic, Democrats, Republican president
Liberals believe: Gonzales, Senate Democrats, Democrats, Gonzales
Kathleen Parker
Tribune Media Services
Being John Kerry
5 January 2005
902 82 14D-,3D=
Being John: John Kerry
As the: Democrats
Was it: John F. Kerry
"The pundits: Kerry
The answer: Kerry
Democrats won't: Democrats
Kerry and: Kerry, Democratic Party
This is: Kerry, John Kerry
Among friends: Kerry, Bill Clinton, Kerry
Finally, as: Kerry, Democrats
Meanwhile, nothing: Kerry, Kerry
Robert Scheer
Creators Syndicate
Backing Gonzales is backing torture
5 January 2005
824 69 2R+,13R-,1R=
Backing Gonzales: Gonzales
01.05.05 -: White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, Gonzales, the president
Gonzales ignored: Gonzales
"In my: Gonzales, President Bush
Acting like: Gonzales, Gonzales
"It is: Gonzales
In light: Gonzales
In fact,: Gonzales
On Monday,: Gonzales
Gonzales based: Gonzales
Such language: Gonzales
Another positive: Gonzales
Joe Conason
New York Observer
DeLay's tactics work on House Republicans
5 January 2005
1038 61 1D-,2D=,3R+,26R-,4R=
DeLay's tactics: DeLay, House Republicans
01.05.05 -: Republican
The other: House Republicans, Democrats, Republicans
On both: Republican, Tom DeLay, Republican
Perhaps it: Republicans
What the: DeLay, Republican, Democrats
Of course,: House leadership
Alert readers: DeLay, Republican, Nick Smith, Smith, Democratic, DeLay
After being: DeLay, Joel Hefley, Republican, Lamar Smith, Republican, DeLay, DeLay, Republicans
Neutering the: DeLay, DeLay, DeLay
Yet another: Jack Abramoff, Abramoff, Republican, Bob Ney
Mr. DeLay: DeLay
Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
The Trouble With Fannie Mae
5 January 2005
892 50 1D-,1D=
All this: Franklin Raines
Until recently: Raines
Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune
A rebel even among her allies
5 January 2005
980 30 12D+,1D-,11D=,3R+
A lot: Shirley Chisholm
As warm: Chisholm
And Chisholm: Chisholm, Charles Rangel, D-
Indeed, Harlem's: Adam ClaytonPowell, Rangel
She took: Democrats, Democratic
Instead, she: Hale Boggs, John Conyers
Seizing the: Chisholm
She was: President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy
Buoyed by: Chisholm
By the: Chisholm, Democrats, George McGovern, President Richard Nixon
"Many black: Major Owens, D-, Chisholm
Indeed, when: Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole, Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell, Shirley Chisholm
Tony Blankley
Creators Syndicate
Voltaire's smile
5 January 2005
1032 27 1D=,2R+,5R-,3R=
 But the: President Bush, the president
 First, the: White House
 Then the: the president, Jeb Bush, Colin Powell, Bill Clinton
 But still: President Bush, Laura Bush, president
 The president: The president
Anne Applebaum
Inactive
Does the Right Remember Abu Ghraib?
5 January 2005
977
Ellen Goodman
Washington Post Writers Group
Is Rehnquist fit?
5 January 2005
906 0 4R=
Does Rehnquist: the president
In these: the president, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice
Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times
Land of Penny Pinchers
5 January 2005
861 0 1D-,1R-,2R=
In 2003,: President Bush, President Clinton
With America's: Bush, Bush
William Safire
New York Times
Two Internal Splits
5 January 2005
788 0
Walter E. Williams
Inactive
Are we a republic or a democracy?
5 January 2005
746