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Pundit Boxscore for Saturday 8 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
David Brooks
New York Times
Let Congress Lead
8 January 2005
918 11 2D-,4D=,4R+,3R-,15R=
First, many: Republicans, Democratic
Second, it: Democratic, Democrats, Republicans, Republicans
Third, any: Democratic, Republican, Senate Republicans, Democrats, House Republicans
Fourth, even: Republicans, White House, Democrats, Newt Gingrich, Jack Kemp, Steve Forbes, Paul Ryan
Fifth, the: administration, Republicans, John Snow, administration
What to: White House, Reagan, The president, Chuck Grassley
Next, it: the president
The president's: The president
Robert Novak
Creators Syndicate
Rising star
8 January 2005
881 6 1D+,9D=,4R+,5R-,14R=
WASHINGTON --: John Boehner, House Republican, Tom DeLay
 After the: Boehner, J.C. Watts, House Republican, Boehner
 DeLay will: DeLay, Democratic, House Republican
DR. FRIST'S: FRIST
 Prominent House: House Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist
 The challenge: Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Frist
 The once: Bill Owens
 As a: Owens, Owens
 Conservatives seeking: Owens, Republicans
 Claude Allen,: Republican, President Bush, White House
 Allen, currently: Senate Democrats
 However, Allen: Democratic, Paul Sarbanes, Barbara Mikulski
SPITZER'S CHOICE: SPITZER
 New York: Eliot Spitzer, Democratic
 Garamendi was: Republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Democratic
Colbert I. King
Inactive
Turning a Deaf Ear to the Displaced
8 January 2005
1305
Kathleen Parker
Tribune Media Services
The weird wielding of charity
8 January 2005
772 0
Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times
It's Time to Spray DDT
8 January 2005
832 0 1R=
So why: President Bush