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Columns 99
Words 85739
Median Partisanship Index 85.7
Total Partisanship Index 77.7
Combined Partisanship Index 81.7
Positive Democratic Index 9.2
Negative Democratic Index 2.1
Positive Republican Index 4.1
Negative Republican Index 74.7
Positive Index 13.3
Negative Index 76.8
Neutral Index 9.9



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 93 Clinton(13), Bill Clinton(8), Paul Wellstone(7), Democrats(7), Spitzer(6), Al Gore(5), Sarbanes(4), Clinton administration(4), Kennedy(3), Senate Democrats(3), Democratic(3), Wellstone(3), John Kerry(3), Democrat(2), Eliot Spitzer(2), Kerry(2), Paul Sarbanes(2), Franklin Roosevelt(2), John F. Kennedy, the Clintons, administration, Clinton White House, Senate Democratic, Tom Daschle, Carl Levin, Lawrence Summers, Max Cleland, Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson, Mary Landrieu, Landrieu, Summers
Negative Democratic 21 Democrats(12), Democratic(3), Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, Joseph Lieberman, Lieberman, Senate Democrats, Clinton
Neutral Democratic 29
Positive Republican 42 Bush(7), Republican(7), Republicans(3), John McCain(3), administration(3), Reagan(2), McCain(2), George W. Bush(2), Christie Whitman, Nixon, Karen Hughes, Charles Grassley, Grassley, Robert Zoellick, Republican Party, Lott, Strom Thurmond, Bush administration, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Friedman
Negative Republican 759 administration(188), Bush(158), Bush administration(79), George W. Bush(41), Lott(29), White House(22), Dick Cheney(18), Republicans(16), White(16), Republican(14), Cheney(13), Republican Party(10), Karl Rove(9), Rove(9), O'Neill(7), Paul O'Neill(7), Oxley(6), Trent Lott(6), House Republicans(6), Thomas White(5), John Ashcroft(5), DeLay(5), Tom DeLay(4), Whitman(4), House leadership(4), Michael Oxley(3), Republican National Committee(3), Administration(3), Grassley(3), Daniels(3), Thurmond(3), Gramm(2), Reagan(2), Ronald Reagan(2), House Republican(2), Senator Phil Gramm(2), Lindsey(2), George Bush(2), President Bush(2), Larry Lindsey(2), R.N.C.C.(2), Phil Gramm(2), Ari Fleischer(2), McCarthy(2), Marc Racicot(2), Gonzales, James Watt, Watt, Congress, Mitch Daniels, George H. W. Bush, Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Elaine Chao, Fleischer, Tom Ridge, Donald Evans, Christie Whitman, Condoleezza Rice, Budget director Mitch Daniels, Colin Powell, Powell, Republican National Campaign Committee, James Gilmore, Mike Oxley, Congressional Republicans, Richard Perle, Dennis Hastert, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Charles Grassley, Jeb Bush, Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, Republican Senate, Don Nickles, Ashcroft, Henry Kissinger, John Snow
Neutral Republican 72



List of Columns

Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
Crisis in Prices?
31 December 2002
830 100 1R-: Bush administration
Lumps of Coal
27 December 2002
841 80 4R-: administration, administration, administration, administration
1R=
The Good Guys
24 December 2002
872 88 7D+: Eliot Spitzer, Spitzer, Spitzer, Spitzer, Spitzer, Spitzer, Spitzer
1D=
Quo Vadis, Karl?
20 December 2002
927 74 2R+: Republican, Stephen Friedman
22R-: Trent Lott, Lott, Lott, Lott, Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, Bush, Henry Kissinger, administration, Bush administration, administration, Bush, John Snow, Paul O'Neill, Bush, Larry Lindsey, administration, Karl Rove, White House
3R=
Gotta Have Faith
17 December 2002
931 96 23R-: Bush administration, Trent Lott, Republicans, Lott, Republicans, administration, administration, Bush administration, White House, Karl Rove, administration, Tom DeLay, DeLay, DeLay, Don Nickles, Lott, DeLay, Lott, Republican Party, George W. Bush, John Ashcroft, Ashcroft, Trent Lott
1R=
The Other Face
13 December 2002
954 92 1R+: George W. Bush
24R-: Republican Senate, Trent Lott, Lott, Lott, Lott, Lott, Lott, Republican Party, Lott, Lott, Lott, Bush, Lott, Lott, Bush administration, Lott, Lott, Lott, Lott, White House, Lott, Bush, Lott, Lott
'All These Problems'
10 December 2002
904 46 7D+: Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Mary Landrieu, Paul Wellstone, John Kerry, John Kerry, Landrieu
1D-: Democratic
5R+: Lott, Strom Thurmond, Bush administration, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice
11R-: Trent Lott, Republican Party, Lott, Thurmond, Lott, Lott, Thurmond, Lott, Thurmond, Lott, Lott
2R=
Digital Robber Barons?
6 December 2002
795 0
Hey, Lucky Duckies!
3 December 2002
842 60 1D-: Democrats
4R-: House Republicans, administration, George W. Bush, Republicans
In Media Res
29 November 2002
818 100 2D+: Al Gore, Democrats
2R-: Republican Party, Bush administration
Every Breath You Take
26 November 2002
854 71 1D+: Democratic
4R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, administration
2R=
The Sons Also Rise
22 November 2002
845 100 2D+: Kennedys, Kennedy
2R-: Bush, Cheney
Victors and Spoils
19 November 2002
876 92 12R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, Karl Rove, Rove, administration, Jeb Bush, Republican Party, Republican, Bush
1D=
Into the Wilderness
8 November 2002
909 14 2D+: Max Cleland, Democrats
5D-: Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
3R+: Republicans, Republicans, Republican
9R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, Republican Party, Republicans, Republicans, administration, Bush administration
2D=, 1R=
Stop Making Sense
5 November 2002
896 31 1D+: Democrats
1D-: Democrats
3R+: Bush, Bush, Republican Party
7R-: Republicans, George W. Bush, Bush, Republican Party, Bush, Bush, Bush
1R=
The Pitt Principle
1 November 2002
829 100 2R-: administration, administration
For the People
29 October 2002
853 100 9D+: Paul Wellstone, Paul Wellstone, Paul Wellstone, Paul Wellstone, Wellstone, Wellstone, Paul Wellstone, Wellstone, Paul Wellstone
1R-: Charles Grassley
Dead Parrot Society
25 October 2002
895 100 16R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush administration, White House, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, Bush administration, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, administration
Business as Usual
22 October 2002
857 77 1R+: George W. Bush
11R-: Republicans, White House, Bush, administration, Bush, Administration, Bush administration, Bush, administration, Bush, Phil Gramm
1R=
Springtime for Hitler
18 October 2002
925 50 4R+: Republican, Charles Grassley, Grassley, Bush
13R-: George W. Bush, White House, Phil Gramm, Gramm, Grassley, Grassley, Grassley, administration, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, George W. Bush
1R=
Still Living Dangerously
15 October 2002
856 100 5R-: administration, administration, administration, Richard Perle, administration
Moles at Work
11 October 2002
863 100 8R-: Michael Oxley, George W. Bush, Congressional Republicans, White House, John Ashcroft, Bush, Bush, Bush
Fool Me Once
8 October 2002
885 100 4D+: Paul Sarbanes, Sarbanes, Sarbanes, Sarbanes
12R-: Oxley, Michael Oxley, Oxley, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Oxley, Oxley, Oxley, Republicans, Mike Oxley, White House, administration
My Economic Plan
4 October 2002
856 0 3R=
Dealing With W
1 October 2002
858 67 2R-: Bush administration, White House
1R=
In Broad Daylight
27 September 2002
832 100 1D+: Democrats
1R-: Republican Party
White Man's Burden
24 September 2002
851 62 5R-: Rove, George W. Bush, Bush, Rove, Bush
3R=
The Vision Thing
20 September 2002
861 89 8R-: administration, George Bush, administration, George W. Bush, administration, Paul O'Neill, administration, Karl Rove
1R=
Cronies in Arms
17 September 2002
879 100 14R-: Dick Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Thomas White, White, White, White, White, White, White, administration, White, Dick Cheney
Stocks and Bombs
13 September 2002
852 25 1R-: Bush
1D=, 2R=
The Long Haul
10 September 2002
853 0
The Bully's Pulpit
6 September 2002
903 78 1D+: Democrat
17R-: Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Bush administration, Ari Fleischer, Powell, Cheney, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, George W. Bush, Republican, Republican National Campaign Committee, R.N.C.C., R.N.C.C., administration, administration
2D=, 3R=
Passing the Buck
3 September 2002
843 100 1R-: Bush administration
Just Trust Us
30 August 2002
866 100 13R-: George W. Bush, Bush administration, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Budget director Mitch Daniels, White House, administration, administration, administration, administration
Bush on Fire
27 August 2002
847 91 10R-: Bush, George W. Bush, administration, Bush, administration, Bush administration, Republicans, Bush administration, administration, Bush administration
1R=
The Outrage Constraint
23 August 2002
843 0
The Real Thing
20 August 2002
897 88 1D+: Al Gore
1D-: Democratic
14R-: administration, administration, George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush administration
Mind the Gap
16 August 2002
879 0
Clueless in Crawford
13 August 2002
840 100 9R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, Bush, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration
The Lost Continent
9 August 2002
884 29 1R+: administration
3R-: Paul O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill
1D=, 2R=
The Memory Hole
6 August 2002
894 67 1R+: Bush
7R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, administration, administration, administration
1R=
Dubya's Double Dip?
2 August 2002
817 100 1R-: administration
Our Banana Republics
30 July 2002
870 78 1D+: Clinton administration
1R+: Republican
7R-: Christie Whitman, Whitman, Whitman, Whitman, Whitman, Bush administration, White House
The Private Interest
26 July 2002
880 84 1R+: John McCain
17R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Donald Evans, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Bush
1D=
Living With Bears
23 July 2002
832 50 3R-: administration, Bush administration, administration
3R=
Steps to Wealth
16 July 2002
878 100 20R-: George W. Bush, administration, White House, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Republican Party, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Dick Cheney, Bush administration, Bush
The Insider Game
12 July 2002
907 100 1D+: Bill Clinton
17R-: Bush administration, President Bush, Thomas White, Bush, Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, George W. Bush, Bush, Dick Cheney, Bush, Bush
Succeeding in Business
7 July 2002
919 100 24R-: George W. Bush, Thomas White, Dick Cheney, Bush, administration, George W. Bush, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, White House, Dick Cheney, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
Everyone Is Outraged
2 July 2002
889 100 2D+: Bill Clinton, Clinton
16R-: George W. Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Michael Oxley, Republican, Oxley, Bush, Bush, Bush, George Bush, Bush, Dick Cheney, administration, Bush, Cheney, Bush
Flavors of Fraud
28 June 2002
825 100 1D+: Eliot Spitzer
1R-: George W. Bush
The Reality Thing
25 June 2002
858 100 15R-: Bush administration, George H. W. Bush, White House, administration, George W. Bush, administration, House Republicans, White House, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush administration
Fear of All Sums
21 June 2002
840 100 1D+: Democratic
6R-: George W. Bush, Bush, administration, White House, Republicans, administration
Politicians on Drugs
18 June 2002
878 65 4D+: Senate Democrats, Senate Democratic, Senate Democrats, Senate Democrats
1D-: Senate Democrats
8R-: House Republicans, House Republicans, Republican, House Republican, House Republicans, House Republicans, House Republican, Republican
2D=, 2R=
Plutocracy and Politics
14 June 2002
848 0 1R+: Republican
1R-: Bush administration
The Rove Doctrine
11 June 2002
920 81 6D+: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, administration
1R+: Karen Hughes
16R-: Rove, Bush administration, George W. Bush, Bush administration, Karl Rove, Rove, Rove, administration, Rove, administration, Bush, Cheney, administration, Ronald Reagan, Bush, Reagan
1D=, 2R=
Evils of Access
7 June 2002
910 73 2R+: Christie Whitman, Nixon
26R-: administration, White House, Alberto Gonzales, administration, Gonzales, Dick Cheney, administration, administration, administration, administration, Dick Cheney, administration, administration, John Ashcroft, Cheney, James Watt, Watt, George W. Bush, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, Cheney, Bush administration, Bush, administration
2D=, 3R=
Greed Is Bad
4 June 2002
793 0
Heart of Cheapness
31 May 2002
867 50 4R-: O'Neill, O'Neill, Bush administration, O'Neill
4R=
Where's the Boom?
28 May 2002
848 0 2R+: Reagan, Reagan
2R-: Reagan, Bush
6R=
America the Scofflaw
24 May 2002
865 55 1D+: Clinton
1R+: administration
6R-: Bush administration, Bush, Bush administration, administration, Karl Rove, Bush
3R=
Enemies of Reform
21 May 2002
859 82 4D+: Lawrence Summers, Summers, Paul Sarbanes, Sarbanes
1D-: Democrats
6R-: Senator Phil Gramm, Republican, Gramm, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration
America's Poor Standards
17 May 2002
852 14 1D+: Carl Levin
2D-: Joseph Lieberman, Lieberman
1R+: John McCain
3R-: George W. Bush, Bush administration, administration
The Great Evasion
14 May 2002
856 62 5R-: White House, Bush administration, Administration, administration, administration
3R=
Smoking Fat Boy
10 May 2002
837 100 6R-: George W. Bush, Bush administration, Thomas White, White, Bush administration, administration
True Blue Americans
7 May 2002
883 43 1D+: Al Gore
1D-: Democrats
1R+: administration
4R-: Bush administration, administration, George W. Bush, Bush
Window of Ignorance
3 May 2002
894 100 7R-: administration, Bush administration, George W. Bush, administration, administration, administration, Bush
Herd on the Street
30 April 2002
823 0
Bad Air Days
26 April 2002
854 79 1D+: Clinton administration
10R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration
1D=, 2R=
The Angry People
23 April 2002
878 91 4D+: Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Clinton
6R-: Republican Party, Tom DeLay, DeLay, DeLay, Dennis Hastert, John Ashcroft
1D=
Wealth Versus Health
19 April 2002
866 100 12R-: Bush administration, Dick Cheney, Tom Ridge, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration
Losing Latin America
16 April 2002
833 100 1D+: Clinton administration
1R-: Condoleezza Rice
The White Stuff
12 April 2002
909 83 1D+: Clinton
18R-: White, Bush administration, administration, Dick Cheney, Thomas White, White, White, White, administration, White, administration, White, White, administration, administration, administration, White, administration
4R=
The Third Oil Crisis?
9 April 2002
835 0
At Long Last?
5 April 2002
907 70 2D+: Kerry, Tom Daschle
2R+: McCain, Bush
14R-: McCarthy, McCarthy, Ari Fleischer, Bush, Bush administration, administration, Republican, Dick Cheney, Administration, George W. Bush, Bush administration, administration, Tom DeLay, Fleischer
2R=
Connect the Dots
2 April 2002
842 100 5R-: Bush administration, Karl Rove, Elaine Chao, administration, administration
The Smoke Machine
29 March 2002
865 100 4D+: the Clintons, Clinton, Clinton White House, Clinton
3R-: George W. Bush, Bush administration, administration
Bad Medicine
19 March 2002
826 100 3R-: Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration
ANWR and Peas
15 March 2002
870 67 2D+: John Kerry, Kerry
2R+: John McCain, McCain
8R-: Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration, administration, Bush, Republican, administration, Trent Lott
Missing James Tobin
12 March 2002
840 100 4D+: John F. Kennedy, Democrat, Kennedy, Kennedy
Testing His Metal
8 March 2002
910 55 5D+: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Democrats, Clinton
2D-: Democrats, Democrats
3R+: Republican, Bush, Robert Zoellick
12R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, White House, administration, Bush
Breaking the Contract
5 March 2002
860 100 2D+: Franklin Roosevelt, Democrats
12R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Republican, Bush administration, administration, Bush, Karl Rove
Two Thousand Acres
1 March 2002
878 100 10R-: Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Bush, Cheney, administration, administration, administration, Dick Cheney, Cheney, administration, John Ashcroft
The Power Perplex
26 February 2002
796 0
The W Scenario
22 February 2002
845 100 1D+: Democrats
5R-: administration, administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush
Workers Held Hostage
19 February 2002
849 100 5R-: Republicans, House leadership, House leadership, House leadership, House leadership
Ersatz Climate Policy
15 February 2002
878 100 13R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, Bush administration, administration, administration, Bush administration, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, administration, administration
Business Versus Biznes
12 February 2002
877 50 3D-: Democrats, Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe
10R-: Paul O'Neill, Bush administration, Republicans, Bush administration, Bush administration, administration, Paul O'Neill, administration, George W. Bush, administration
1R=
Money-Grubbing Games
8 February 2002
913 100 20R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Mitch Daniels, White House, Daniels, White House, Daniels, Bush, Daniels, administration, Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, Republican, administration, administration
Bush's Aggressive Accounting
5 February 2002
892 86 12R-: Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration, administration, administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration
1D=, 1R=
Two, Three, Many?
1 February 2002
835 100 1D+: Bill Clinton
1R-: Congress
The Great Divide
29 January 2002
899 67 4R-: Paul O'Neill, Dick Cheney, Marc Racicot, Republican National Committee
1D=, 1R=
Spreading It Around
25 January 2002
834 100 3D+: Clinton, Clinton, Clinton administration
2R-: Cheney, Bush administration
A Fiscal Fantasy
22 January 2002
883 64 1D+: Democratic
1R+: Republican
7R-: administration, Bush administration, administration, George W. Bush, Bush, administration, administration
2D=
A System Corrupted
18 January 2002
859 100 10R-: Larry Lindsey, Paul O'Neill, White House, Lindsey, O'Neill, Bush, Senator Phil Gramm, Lindsey, O'Neill, Bush
Crony Capitalism, U.S.A.
15 January 2002
881 73 1D-: Clinton
1R+: Bush
13R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Marc Racicot, Republican National Committee, Dick Cheney, Cheney, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Bush
Our Wretched States
11 January 2002
847 100 4R-: Republican, Bush, James Gilmore, Republican National Committee
The Quiet Man
8 January 2002
910 87 13R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Karl Rove, Rove, Bush, Rove, Bush, Bush, Ronald Reagan, Republican
2D=
America the Polarized
4 January 2002
895 26 1D-: Democrats
1R+: Republicans
7R-: Tom DeLay, Republicans, Republican, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Republican
6D=, 4R=
Crying With Argentina
1 January 2002
830 0 1D=, 1R=