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The absurdity of partisanship
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Fred Hiatt
Washington Post

Columns 20
Words 19874
Median Partisanship Index 0.0
Total Partisanship Index 1.9
Combined Partisanship Index 0.9
Positive Democratic Index 12.6
Negative Democratic Index 9.3
Positive Republican Index 25.2
Negative Republican Index 20.1
Positive Index 37.9
Negative Index 29.4
Neutral Index 32.7



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 27 Warner(5), Truman(5), Clinton(4), President Clinton(3), Talbott(2), Clifford(2), Sandy Berger, Berger, Mark Warner, administration, Clinton administration, William Cohen
Negative Democratic 20 Truman(3), Forrestal(3), Townsend(3), Clinton(2), Bill Clinton(2), President Clinton, Talbott, Democrats, Warner, Harry Truman, Kennedy, Clinton administration
Neutral Democratic 28
Positive Republican 54 Bush(15), administration(7), President Bush(7), Wolfowitz(5), Rumsfeld(5), Cornyn(2), Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz(2), Tom Ridge, Ridge, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, State Department, Bush's administration, Condoleezza Rice, Rice, Vice President Cheney, John Cornyn, Republican, Bush administration
Negative Republican 43 administration(12), Bush(11), Ehrlich(6), President Bush(4), Bush administration(3), Republican(2), State Department(2), Cabinet, Administration, George W. Bush
Neutral Republican 42



List of Columns

Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
Saddam's Lawyers
9 December 2002
976 33 1R+: Bush
2R=
Truth-Tellers in a Time of Terror
25 November 2002
892 50 1R-: President Bush
1R=
Texas's 10 Percent Experiment
28 October 2002
1028 100 5R+: John Cornyn, Republican, President Bush, Cornyn, Cornyn
The Candor-Free Candidates
7 October 2002
900 20 3D-: Townsend, Townsend, Townsend
6R-: Ehrlich, Ehrlich, Ehrlich, Ehrlich, Ehrlich, Ehrlich
3D=, 3R=
Conscience of Convenience
23 September 2002
799 0 2R+: President Bush, Vice President Cheney
2R-: Bush, administration
Proving Ground for a Just War
9 September 2002
897 0 2R+: President Bush, President Bush
2R-: administration, Administration
3R=
. . . And the Deeds to Back the Words
19 August 2002
992 18 5R+: administration, administration, President Bush, Bush, administration
3R-: administration, Bush, administration
3R=
Truman's Rose-Colored Reforms
15 July 2002
1176 3 7D+: Truman, Truman, Truman, Truman, Truman, Clifford, Clifford
7D-: Truman, Harry Truman, Truman, Forrestal, Forrestal, Forrestal, Truman
1R+: Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz
11D=, 5R=
Bush's Comparison Of Convenience
1 July 2002
985 11 3D-: Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Clinton
7R+: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Rice, Bush
8R-: Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
Chicken Before Chechnya
17 June 2002
1065 0 4D+: Talbott, Talbott, Clinton, administration
2D-: Clinton, Talbott
3R+: Bush, Bush's administration, Bush
1R-: President Bush
3D=, 6R=
Weighing an Attack on Iraq . . .
3 June 2002
1032 50 6D+: President Clinton, William Cohen, Sandy Berger, Berger, President Clinton, Clinton
1D-: President Clinton
3R=
Underachieving Afghanistan
20 May 2002
1072 75 9R+: President Bush, Bush, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, administration, Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz
3R=
What's So Sacred About a School Board?
6 May 2002
913 0 3D=
N. Korea: What a Big Stick Can Do
23 April 2002
1026 0 3D+: Clinton administration, Clinton, Clinton
5R+: administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush administration
2R-: Bush administration, President Bush
1D=, 4R=
Our Rose- Colored Cold War
25 March 2002
992 14 1D-: Clinton administration
2R-: administration, administration
1D=, 3R=
China's Insecurity Complex
11 March 2002
991 0
A Flinch on Chechnya
25 February 2002
995 38 2R+: President Bush, Bush
5R-: administration, administration, administration, administration, administration
1R=
So Warner Won. Now What?
11 February 2002
1017 38 6D+: Warner, Mark Warner, Warner, Warner, Warner, Warner
2D-: Warner, Kennedy
2R-: Republican, Republican
6D=
Tiptoe Diplomacy
28 January 2002
1108 58 1D+: President Clinton
2R+: administration, State Department
8R-: State Department, Bush administration, administration, George W. Bush, Bush, Bush administration, State Department, Bush
1R=
Staying on Offense
14 January 2002
1018 62 1D-: Democrats
10R+: Tom Ridge, Ridge, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Bush, Bush, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld
1R-: Cabinet
4R=