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Pundit Boxscore for Saturday 24 April 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
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal
Gorelick Agonistes
24 April 2004
851 71 15D-,1R+,1R-,4R=
Gorelick Agonistes: Gorelick
Jamie Gorelick: Jamie Gorelick, Democratic, Clinton, Jamie Gorelick
The Commission: Gorelick
Yet Ms.: Gorelick
No serious: Gorelick, Condoleezza Rice
• Ms.: Gorelick
• Follow-up:: Gorelick, Ashcroft
Far from: Gorelick, Ashcroft
What is: Gorelick
The 9/11: Gorelick, John Ashcroft, Republican, Orrin Hatch, Gorelick
The 9/11: Gorelick
E. J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post
Perfect Words And Principle
24 April 2004
944 35 4D+,6D-,6D=,7R+,3R=
She once: George Bush, John Kerry
She had: Kerry, Kerry, William Weld
"The Republican: Republican, John F. Kerry, Weld, Kerry
Kerry's only: Kerry, Democrats
She would: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
McGrory would: Kerry
But woe: Democrats, Bush, Al Gore, Al Gore, George W. Bush, Al Gore, vice president
She had: Haley Barbour, Republican, George W. Bush, John McCain
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post
The War Decision
24 April 2004
793 14 5R+,8R-,9R=
IT'S NOT: White House, President Bush, the president, Bush
Yet there: the president, administration, the president, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Bush
Such preparations: Bush, the president, Colin L. Powell, Bush, Bush, The president, Bush, the president, Rumsfeld
If Mr.: Bush, Bush
Much has: Powell, Bush
Nicholas D. Kristof
Inactive
Hug an Evangelical
24 April 2004
808
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times
A Compromised Voting System
24 April 2004
766 0
Colbert I. King
Inactive
Is Kerry's Campaign Colorblind?
24 April 2004
980
David Brooks
New York Times
The Columbine Killers
24 April 2004
844 0