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Pundit Boxscore for Monday 26 January 2004

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
William Safire
New York Times
The Kennedy Comeback
26 January 2004
997 51 4D+,29D-,15D=,1R+,2R=
The Kennedy: Kennedy
Unpenitent pollsters: John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, Clinton, Wesley Clark, Joe Lieberman, Republicans
These assumptions,: Democratic, Kerry, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards
But the: Democratic, Ted Kennedy
I used: Democratic Party, Clinton, Clark, Dean, Dean
As Dean: Dean, Clark, Clintonites, Democratic, Ted Kennedy
Not by: John F. Kennedy, Teddy
The resuscitation: Democrats, Dean, John Kerry
Teddy dispatched: Teddy, Kerry, Kennedy, Kerry, George W. Bush
This sounds: Democrats, Republicans, Dean, Kerry, Dean, Clark, Kerry, Ted Kennedy
To buttress: Kerry, John Edwards, Ted Kennedy
"Those Washington: Edwards
Class warfare: Kerry, Edwards, Al Gore
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal
Conduct Unbecoming
26 January 2004
735 50 3D+,9D-,1D=,1R+
Kerry doesn't: Kerry
A turning: John Kerry, Republican, Kerry
Service in: Kerry, Kerry, George McGovern, Kerry
In his: Kerry, Kerry
Mr. Kerry: Kerry
But the: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post
State of Gay Unions
26 January 2004
712 50 1D=,1R+,7R-,3R=
PERHAPS THE: President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Republican, Democrats
We suppose: the president, the president
Mr. Bush's: Bush, Bush
Even in: Bush, Vice President Cheney
William Raspberry
Washington Post
Why Good Marriages Matter
26 January 2004
694 40 2R-,3R=
President Bush's: President Bush
There's precious: the president
That is: the president
The president's: The president
Marriage does: the president
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times
Iraq's Undemocratic Transition
26 January 2004
523 0
John Fund
Inactive
Bush's Looming Political Deficit
26 January 2004
1494
Bob Herbert
Inactive
Education Is No Protection
26 January 2004
807
Cal Thomas
Tribune Media Services
Informed choice and abortion
26 January 2004
755 0
Fred Hiatt
Inactive
What the Democrats Lack on Iraq
26 January 2004
1122