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Pundit Boxscore for Thursday 22 April 2004

COULTER SHOCK! Ann Coulter has written her first genuine crossover column in at least two years -- on Earth Day. It's not about Earth Day; the column is an attack on Senator Arlen Specter, an actual Republican, not a Democrat serving in a Republican administration. Of course, Ms. Coulter criticizes Senator Specter mostly for behaving as a Democrat (a "Donkey trapped in elephant's body") and in the context of boosting his more conservative "great Republican" opponent. Still, a genuine crossover by one of the titans of partisanship is a momentous event. This one column increased Ms. Coulter's negative Republican references from 3 to 20 and dropped her score a few points, into second place behind Paul Krugman.



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 S. Broder
Washington Post
Some Good News In an Ocean of Bad
22 April 2004
850 100 7R+
Mike Leavitt,: Mike Leavitt
The goal,: Leavitt
But, as: Leavitt
Leavitt, who: Leavitt, Bush administration
Leavitt added,: Leavitt
"And learning: Leavitt
Thomas Sowell
Creators Syndicate
Criminalizing business
22 April 2004
749 100 1D-
 Perjury should: President of the United States
Peggy Noonan
WSJ OpinionJournal
People Have Eyes
22 April 2004
1493 87 11D-,16R+,1R-,2R=
Americans dislike: Bush, Bush
I do: President Bush, Bush, the president
I think: Bush
They look: George W. Bush
They are: Bush, Bush, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Bush
Americans do: Bush
Mr. Bush's: Bush, President Bush
Mr. Bush: Bush
If you: John Kerry, Bush, Kerry
So far: Kerry, Kerry
Which is: the president, Democrats, Bush, administration, Ted Kennedy
You know: Bush, Kerry, Democrat
Can the: Democrats
Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
Fantasyland of the free
22 April 2004
940 75 2D+,1R+,11R-,2R=
04.22.04 -: the president
The Nation: Bush, Bush
I got: George W. Bush
A heavy: Paul Wolfowitz
Meanwhile, the: Bush, Clinton, Paul O'Neill, Bush, Bill Clinton, Bush, White House
One of: Bush
As Lewis: Bush Administration, administration, Bush
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post
A Firing Too Far
22 April 2004
429 57 1D+,1D=,3R-,2R=
SINCE TAKING: Robert L. Ehrlich, Republican, Democrats, Ehrlich
What, then,: Republican, Republican, Democratic
Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
Kerry's UN fetish
22 April 2004
1030 50 1D+,5D-,3D=,5R+,4R=
Kerry's UN: Kerry
By Jeff: John Kerry, Bush administration, George Bush
On the: Bush, Kerry, Bush
On "Meet: Kerry
Here are: Kerry
"Now, finally,: George Bush
"If I'm: administration
No matter: Kerry, Bush, Kerry
Kerry has: Kerry
There is: Kerry
When Bush: Bush, Bush
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times
Disclosure by the Kerrys
22 April 2004
604 47 9D-,5D=,1R-,2R=
Senator John: John Kerry, Bush, Kerry, Kerry, Republicans, President Bush
Rapid and: Kerry, Kerry
With this: Teresa Heinz Kerry, Heinz Kerry, Heinz Kerry
But, again,: Geraldine Ferraro, Mondale, Ferraro, Ferraro
Beyond that: Heinz Kerry
One of: Kerry
Richard Cohen
Washington Post
Kerry's Missing Message . . .
22 April 2004
1023 31 1D+,14D-,7D=,8R+,7R-,8R=
Kerry's Missing: Kerry
In the: George W. Bush, Bush
That, at: Bush, John Kerry, Democrats, Bush, Kerry, Bush
Polls are: Kerry
Why? Well,: Bush, the president, Democrats, Bush, Republican, Bill Clinton
Maybe. More: Bush, Kerry, Kerry
Money will: the president, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry, George Bush
Significantly, in: Kerry, Bush, Bush, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Bush
If I: Kerry, Bush, Vice President Cheney, Bush, Bush
Whether that: the president, Kerry, Bush
In every: Democratic, John Kerry, Bush, the president
Maureen Dowd
New York Times
The Body Politic
22 April 2004
907 21 1D=,7R-,25R=
Bob Woodward's: President Bush
Like his: Bush, Bush, the president
The younger: Bush, Clintonesque, Dick Cheney, Bush
Like the: the president
The president: The president, Bush
As the: the president, the president, Donald Rumsfeld
The author: Cheney, Scooter Libby, the president
When the: Bush, Condoleezza Rice, the president, The president
Nick Calio,: White House, Bush
When George: president
When the: the president, Colin Powell, the president, Bush
After a: Bush, the president, Bush
The end: the president, Bush
Ann Coulter
Universal Press Syndicate
Donkey trapped in elephant's body
22 April 2004
1245 16 1D+,2D-,3D=,9R+,17R-,11R=
Except for: Republican, Republican, Pat Toomey, Republican, Arlen Specter
Thanks to: Arlen Specter
More than: Arlen Specter
When Reagan: Reagan, Reagan
Liberals exploded: Arlen Specter
Specter voted: Specter, Reagan, Jeff Sessions, Sessions, Specter, Reagan
Liberals waged: Teddy Kennedy
Specter pretended: Specter, Republican, John Kerry, Ronald Reagan, Specter, Republican, Specter
The Bork: Republicans, Republican
Since Bork,: Republican
The nation: Arlen Specter
Luckily for: Specter, Specter, Specter
Some Republicans: Republicans, Specter, Democrats, Bush, Pat Toomey, Republicans, Specter, Democrats, Democratic, Arlen Specter, Republican Party, Democrat
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal
Kerry's Iraq 'Stability'
22 April 2004
924 12 4D+,7D-,4D=,4R+,4R-,2R=
Kerry's Iraq: Kerry
The Democrat: Democrat, Brent Scowcroft
Democratic Presidential: Democratic, John Kerry
Some critics: Kerry, Kerry, Richard Holbrooke, Democrats, Kerry
In historic: Democrats, Democrats, Harry Truman, John Kennedy
"Realism" in: Republicans, President Bush, Brent Scowcroft
The current: President Bush
It is: Bush, Scowcroft, Bush
Inside the: Kerry
We'd be: President Bush
As we: Bush
An added: Democratic
George F. Will
Washington Post
Blue Tinges in Arizona
22 April 2004
928 12 10D+,3D=,7R+,6R=
PHOENIX --: President Harry Truman, Barry Goldwater, Republican, Robert Taft, Ronald Reagan, Goldwater, Republican, Bill Clinton
In 2000: George W. Bush, Republican, Bush, Gore, Janet Napolitano, Democrat, Democrats
When it: Republican
But, then,: Republican, Republicans
Arizonans who: Napolitano
There is,: Napolitano
However, migrants: Napolitano
Yet if: John Kerry, Napolitano
Like 51: Napolitano, George W. Bush
She says: Kerry
Jim Hoagland
Inactive
The West's Mideast Divide
22 April 2004
909
Thomas L. Friedman
Inactive
Losing Our Edge?
22 April 2004
893