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Pundit Boxscore for Tuesday 18 January 2005

DOUGHNUTS AND BLOGGING: I've signed up to attend the Triangle Bloggers Conference in Chapel Hill next month. I've never been to one, so it will be fun to see famous NC bloggers like Ed Cone.



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
Paul Krugman
New York Times
That Magic Moment
18 January 2005
860 100 15R-
Last week: President Bush, Bush
I won't: Bush administration, Bush administration
Mr. Bush: Bush, Bush
Now that: Bush, Bush
Maybe we: Bush, Bush
White House: White House
But there's: Bush, White House
Last week: Bush
One is: Bush
Brendan Miniter
WSJ OpinionJournal
Splitsville for the Dems?
18 January 2005
973 50 1D+,3D-,7D=,19R+,12R=
Splitsville for: Dems
Social Security: Republicans
The spin: President Bush, Republican Party, Republicans
A likely: Republicans, John Kerry, Bob Simmons, Republican, Kerry, Democrats
If Democrats: Democrats, Republicans, the president, John H. McHugh, the president, Terry Everett, Mike Rogers, Rogers, Bush, the president
So far: President Bush
Meanwhile there: the president, Republican Party, Bush, Republicans, the president
Secondly, the: Republican, Lindsey Graham, Graham, House Republicans
And serious: President Bush, the president, Bush
They know: Democrats, Rick Boucher, Stephanie Herseth, Earl Pomeroy
Undoubtedly a: Republicans, Democratic, President Bush, Democrats
Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
The science of comedy
18 January 2005
1124 50 1D=,1R-
Among the: President Bush
Nora Ephron,: Democrats
Robert Scheer
Creators Syndicate
Pomp and improper circumstance
18 January 2005
939 30 1D+,2D-,3R+,10R-,4R=
Of course,: the president
First came: White House, the president
"Well, we: Bush
Actually, the: John Kerry, Democratic Party
And although: Bush, Republican
Brent Scowcroft,: Brent Scowcroft, the president's father
Even the: Bush, James A. Baker III, Bush
Undaunted by: Bush, Colin Powell
Despite what: Bush
Consider that: George McGovern
As we: president
After all,: White House
No matter: Bush
E. J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post
What Bush Could Say
18 January 2005
857 20 1D+,3R+,6R=
What Bush: Bush
Mike Gerson,: Mike Gerson, President Bush, Bush, Gerson, the president
Gerson is: Gerson, the president, Bush
"I like: John F. Kennedy
Thomas Oliphant
Boston Globe
Sound judgments
18 January 2005
885 11 1D+,5D=,3R=
Helping the: Edward Kennedy
That got: Kennedy
The only: Clinton
Breyer has: Carter, Reagan, Kennedy, Joe Biden, Strom Thurmond, Orrin Hatch
David Brooks
New York Times
The Gingrich Democrats
18 January 2005
991 8 7D+,6D-,10D=,11R+,6R-,8R=
The Gingrich: Gingrich, Democrats
The Social: Democratic Party, Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich
The Clintonites: Clintonites, President Bush
Clintonites like: Clintonites, Gene Sperling, Rahm Emanuel
The Democratic: Democratic, Bush, Clinton, the president
Their core: Republicans, Democrats, Republican, Democratic, Howard Wolfson
That means: Gingrich, Bush, Republicans
The problem: Bill Clinton, Gingrich, Democratic
What the: Republicans, Clinton, Republican, Gingrich, Armey
The Democrats: Democrats, Gingrich, Gingrich
They won't: Republicans, Republicans
There is: Republican, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Democratic, Jimmy Carter
That means: Republicans, Democrats, Democratic Party
This is: Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Democrats, Democrats, Clinton
Richard Cohen
Washington Post
Don't Ask, Don't Think
18 January 2005
761 0