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Pundit Boxscore for Thursday 20 January 2005

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
Richard Cohen
Washington Post
Fool's Gold
20 January 2005
751 100 2D+,14R-
Alchemy is: George W. Bush
The president,: The president, Grand Old Party
In reality,: Bush, Bush, Bush
The war: Bush
Iraq aside,: administration, Bush
The disjunction: Bush, Bush, Alberto Gonzales, Condi Rice, Joe Biden, Biden
Bush's unsurpassed: Bush
Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
Henhouses overstaffed with foxes
20 January 2005
906 100 12R-
01.20.05 -: Condoleezza Rice, president, the president, Rice
Secretary Rice: Rice, President Bush
Oh, goody,: Bush, Republican Party
Snare was: W
Snare is: Bush
Henshaw also: Bush administration
Well, Snare: administration
Thomas Sowell
Creators Syndicate
Social Insecurity?
20 January 2005
809 100 2R+
 Politically, the: President Bush
 If we: the President
Ann Coulter
Universal Press Syndicate
It's our party, you can cry if you want to
20 January 2005
912 79 12D-,1D=,3R+,3R=
"It has: Bill Clinton
Rich and: Clinton
While dead: Clinton, Clintonista
Instead of: Clinton, Clinton
The spokesman: Clinton, Ken Starr, Clintonland
I wouldn't: Republicans, Bush
Another letter: first lady , John Kerry, Bush
Speaking of: George Soros, Soros, Soros, Bush, Soros
Maureen Dowd
New York Times
Don't Know Much About Algebra
20 January 2005
946 78 2D+,16R-,5R=
Just look: Condoleezza Rice
She's clearly: Bush cabinet
She can't: Rice, the president, vice president
Was Condi: Condi
It's lucky: Rice, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld
Our new: Joe Biden
Her geometry: Rummy, Dick Cheney
The incoming: Bush
Ms. Rice: Rice
The administration: administration
Condi may: Condi, Cheney, Bushies
It is: George Bush
At Condi's: Condi, Bush administration, Biden
Problem is,: Bushies
Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
Same man, different president
20 January 2005
950 46 1D+,1D=,16R+,2R-,8R=
Same man,: president
When George: George W. Bush, Republican
What Bush: Bush
It was: Bush
The man: Democrats, Republican, Richard Nixon, Republicans, GOP, Ronald Reagan
The nonideological,: president
Four years: Bush
So why: Bush, the president
And something: Bush, Bush, Nixon
Making sense: Bush
First, Americans: Bush, Bush
Second, the: Bush, Bush, Republican
Finally, Bush: Bush, Reagan, Bill Clinton, Bush
David S. Broder
Washington Post
What Lies Ahead For Bush
20 January 2005
833 25 2R+,6R=
What Lies: Bush
Four years: George W. Bush
In his: Bush
Abroad, the: Bush
Ambitious as: Bush
Iraq is: the president
A sketch: Bush
Bush has: Bush
George F. Will
Washington Post
Social Security: Opportunity, Not a Crisis
20 January 2005
847 14 2D-,3R-,2R=
The president's: The president, Republicans, Democrats
The president: The president, Democrats
All these: Donald Rumsfeld
If Social: administration
Thomas L. Friedman
Inactive
An American in Paris
20 January 2005
974
Jim Hoagland
Inactive
Don't Let China Off The Hook
20 January 2005
868