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The absurdity of partisanship
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Pundit Boxscore for Wednesday 20 August 2003

ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER: A month ago I noted that Paul Krugman had written only one lonely column with no partisan references, a decrease from eight last year and over fifty in the year 2000. One of his columns last week, "Twilight Zone Economics", was his second non-political column out of 57 this year. I thought that his Tuesday column this week, "The Road to Ruin" -- about the power failure and deregulation -- might be another, but the political hammer came down at the end.



Author/
Affiliation
Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
Maureen Dowd
New York Times
Magnet for Evil
20 August 2003
854 64 2R+: administration, John McCain
11R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Rummy, Rummy
1R=
Linda Chavez
Creators Syndicate
English and Arnold
20 August 2003
894 38 1D-: Democrats
4R+: Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger
8R=
David S. Broder
Washington Post
Conservative Governors With Tax Appeals
20 August 2003
922 35 1D+: Terry Sanford
1D-: Democrats
10R+: Bob Riley, Mark Sanford, Sanford, Riley, Sanford, Sanford, Sanford, Riley, Riley, Republican
3R-: President Bush, Republican, Republican
5R=
Collin Levey
WSJ OpinionJournal
The Nicotine Constituency
20 August 2003
913 0
Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune
An invaluable look back
20 August 2003
949 0 1D=
Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
Deregulation Mirage
20 August 2003
1006 0
Thomas L. Friedman
Inactive
No Time to Lose in Iraq
20 August 2003
925 0 1D=, 3R=
Walter Williams
Creators Syndicate
Exporting jobs
20 August 2003
691 0