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Pundit Boxscore for Thursday 29 April 2004

KINSLEY TO LA TIMES: Michael Kinsley has been named as the new editorial and opinion editor for the Los Angeles Times. Again, Romenesko has a collection of links to relevant articles.

MICHAEL KELLY AWARD: Anthony Shadid of The Washington Post has been named (link via Romenesko) as the first recipient of the Michael Kelly Award.



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
Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
Sinners unite!
29 April 2004
923 100 3R-
04.29.04 -: Goodhair Perry
Here's the: President Bush, Republicans
OJ On the Editorial Page
WSJ OpinionJournal
Al Qaeda's Poison Gas
29 April 2004
684 100 2R+
Abu Musab: Bush Administration
Perhaps the: George W. Bush
WP Lead Editorial
Washington Post
The Finale in Richmond
29 April 2004
642 100 2D+,2R-
Yet measured: Mark R. Warner
The most: James S. Gilmore III, Gilmore
These are: Warner
NYT Lead Editorial
New York Times
The President's Testimony
29 April 2004
574 67 2R+,16R-,3R=
The President's: The President
It would: President Bush, Bush
The strangest: the president, Vice President Dick Cheney, White House, Bush, the president
Given the: White House, Bush, vice president
Mr. Bush's: Bush, administration, The president
The idea: Bush, Republican, Thomas Kean, Bush, the president
The president's: The president, Bush
Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
The Kerry medals mystery
29 April 2004
1037 59 15D-,9D=,2R+,1R-
The Kerry: Kerry
IF JOHN: JOHN KERRY, Democratic, Howard Dean, Kerry, Kerry
Not one: Kerry, Kerry
So what: Kerry
Q. Did: Kerry
A. Yes.: John Kerry
Q. Did: Kerry
A. Yes.: Kerry, Kerry
Q. Did: Kerry
A. No.: Kerry, Kerry
Q. Did: Kerry
A. Medals,: Kerry, Kerry
On Monday's: Kerry
Kerry could: Kerry, Bush, the president, Republican National Committee
But the: Kerry, Kerry
Ann Coulter
Universal Press Syndicate
Arab hijackers now eligible for pre-boarding
29 April 2004
1025 58 2D-,1D=,13R-,3R=
In June: Streisand, Norman Mineta, Mineta, Mineta
A few: Mineta, Mineta
Mineta would: Mineta
On Sept.: Bush, Bush
Flush with: Mineta, Mineta
Despite Mineta's: Mineta, Mineta
The Department: Mineta
In another: Norman Mineta
If John: John Kerry, Norman Mineta, George Bush, Kerry
Bill O'Reilly
BillOReilly.com
Paging Don Corleone
29 April 2004
838 53 1D+,14D-,4D=,7R+,3R-,3R=
In the: John Kerry, John Kerry, Howard Dean
But underlying: Democrats, Kerry
President Bush: President Bush, Bush administration
Despite those: the President, Kerry
But the: democrats, Bush, Kerry
Only 29%: Kerry
So some: Democrats, Kerry
I say: Kerry, Bush, Kerry
The Bush: Bush, Bush, President Ford, Jimmy Carter
The high-ranking: Bush, Dick Cheney
So, at: Republican
The President: The President, John Kerry, Kerry, Bush
Will this: John Kerry
Savvy democrats: democrats
John Kerry: John Kerry
Richard Cohen
Washington Post
Lighten Up, Kerry
29 April 2004
982 42 5D+,5D-,5D=,1R+,14R-,1R=
Lighten Up,: Kerry
John Kerry: John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
Take the: Kerry, George Bush, Dick Cheney
The situation: Kerry, the president, GOP
But instead: Bush, Cheney, Bush, Kerry, Bob Dole, George H.W. Bush, Dole
Stop! Do: Kerry, Bush, Cheney, Kerry
I say: Kerry, FDR, Al Smith, Bush, Bill Clinton
About the: Jimmy Carter, George Bush
The attacks: Kerry, Bush, Cheney
David S. Broder
Washington Post
The Fog of War in the Battleground States
29 April 2004
1058 40 18D+,14D=,3R+,6R-,11R=
The 17: George Bush, John Kerry
Edward G.: Edward G. Rendell, Jennifer M. Granholm, Jim Doyle, Democrats, Republican, GOP, Democratic
That might: Kerry, Al Gore, Republican, Gore, Tom Ridge, John Engler, Tommy G. Thompson, Bush
For that: Democratic, Kerry, Rendell, Bush, Kerry, Gore
"In Southwest: Bush, John Ashcroft, Bush, Republican
Granholm and: Granholm, Doyle, Bush, Kerry
It was: Doyle, the president
But, Doyle: Doyle, Granholm, Democratic
"The question,": Rendell, Republicans
"That's why: Granholm
The conversation: Granholm, the president
Rendell appeared: Rendell, Kerry, Doyle, the president
"It took: Doyle
"But that: Rendell, Rendell, Bush, the president
Doyle, who: Doyle, Kerry
Maureen Dowd
New York Times
Guns and Peanut Butter
29 April 2004
933 37 3D+,6D-,1D=,15R-,7R=
A Republican: Republican, Democrat
A president: president, vice president
Bush campaign: Bush, administration
Communing with: President Bush
In their: The Bushes, Bushes, the president, W.
Bush strategists: Bush, Bush, president
Senator Kerry's: Kerry, Al Gore, Kerry
The White: White House, Kerry
The House: House Democratic, Nancy Pelosi, administration, Condi Rice, House Democratic
"This is: administration, Pelosi, administration
Mr. Kerry: Kerry, Bush
When the: the president
"Most of: the president
Anyway, is: Karen Hughes
Peggy Noonan
WSJ OpinionJournal
A 40-year-old play reveals something awful about today's culture.
29 April 2004
1654 0
Thomas L. Friedman
Inactive
Jumping Out of Sick Bay
29 April 2004
891
Thomas Sowell
Creators Syndicate
Bing Crosby: Singer of the century
29 April 2004
829 0
George F. Will
Washington Post
Live and Let Vote
29 April 2004
825 0 2R=
The new: President Bush
There is: the president
Jim Hoagland
Inactive
Selective Imagery In Iraq
29 April 2004
840