| Columns | 87 |
| Words | 70301 |
| Median Partisanship Index | 40.74 |
| Total Partisanship Index | 56.89 |
| Combined Partisanship Index | 48.82 |
| Positive Democratic Index | 4.66 |
| Negative Democratic Index | 34.95 |
| Positive Republican Index | 34.95 |
| Negative Republican Index | 8.35 |
| Positive Index | 39.61 |
| Negative Index | 43.30 |
| Neutral Index | 17.09 |
| Type | Number | All References |
|---|---|---|
| Positive Democratic | 24 | Kerry(5), Kennedy(2), Democrats(2), Clinton(2), Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Democratic, Bill Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, Howard Dean, Lawrence Summers, President Clinton, Clinton administration, Dick Gephardt, Joe Lieberman, Gephardt, Lieberman |
| Negative Democratic | 180 | Democrats(42), Kerry(21), President Clinton(9), Democratic(9), Dean(7), Clinton(6), Edwards(6), Bill Clinton(6), John Kerry(6), Sharpton(6), Howard Dean(5), Clinton administration(5), Jesse Jackson(3), Ramsey Clark(3), Democratic Party(3), Jackson(3), Feingold(3), Democrat(3), John Edwards(2), Al Sharpton(2), The president(2), Democratic National Committee(2), Carl Levin(2), Teddy Kennedy, Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, John Forbes Kerry, Jimmy Carter, Les Aspin, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Dennis Kucinich, Clark, Lieberman, Hillary, Roosevelt, Madeleine Albright, Wesley Clark, Hillary Clinton, Terry McAuliffe, Bob Graham, Gore, Gray Davis, Richard Riley, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Richard Gephardt, Levin, Democratic party |
| Neutral Democratic | 27 | Democrats(9), Democratic(6), Clinton(3), President Clinton(2), Joe Lieberman, Lieberman, Bill Clinton, Feingold, the president, Kerry, Dean |
| Positive Republican | 180 | Bush(42), President Bush(28), Republicans(15), Bush administration(14), the president(12), Bennett(6), administration(6), president(5), George Bush(5), George W. Bush(4), White House(4), The president(4), Bill Bennett(4), Rove(4), Reagan(4), Rumsfeld(3), Ronald Reagan(2), Republican(2), Karl Rove(2), Secretary of State Colin Powell, Powell, Wolfowitz, President Reagan, GOP, Republican National Committee, Nancy Reagan, President George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the President, Cheney, Bushes, Rudolph Giuliani |
| Negative Republican | 43 | administration(5), Bush(5), Republicans(5), Bush administration(3), Republican(3), McCain(3), White House(3), Norquist(2), the president, Grover Norquist, George H.W. Bush, William Bennett, Bennett, Norman Mineta, George W. Bush, Mineta, President Bush, Bob Packwood, Ronald Reagan, Chuck Hagel, Hagel, Reagan administration |
| Neutral Republican | 61 | President Bush(12), Bush(10), White House(7), Bush administration(6), Republicans(6), the president(4), Schwarzenegger(2), Tom Ridge, George Bush, Cabinet, President George Bush, president of the United States, Republican, McCain, Bush White House, Dick Cheney, The president, administration, Rumsfeld, Arnold Schwarzenegger, McConnell |
| Title/ Date |
words | PI | Partisan References |
|---|---|---|---|
| End of year reflections 27 December 2003 |
833 | 43 | 4D+: Dick Gephardt, Joe Lieberman, Gephardt, Lieberman 8D-: Howard Dean, Howard Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Democratic party, Dean 6R+: George W. Bush, Rudolph Giuliani, George Bush, Bush, George Bush, Bush 5D= |
| Saddam's hole -- and the Democrats' 19 December 2003 |
870 | 82 | 7D-: Democrats, Howard Dean, Democratic, Kerry, Dean, Kerry, Democrats 3R+: President Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration 1R-: Reagan administration |
| Sad day for freedom 12 December 2003 |
833 | 33 | 2D-: Feingold, Democrats 1R+: Republicans 1R-: McCain 2R= |
| Thanksgiving 28 November 2003 |
786 | 100 | 1R+: George W. Bush |
| I hate popular culture 25 November 2003 |
819 | 75 | 3D-: Clinton, Al Sharpton, Democratic Party 1R= |
| Jessica Lynch, Col. West: What's wrong with this picture? 16 November 2003 |
814 | 0 | 1R= |
| Jessica Lynch: Modern Myth 14 November 2003 |
866 | 33 | 1D-: Clinton administration 1D=, 1R= |
| The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban is a small victory 7 November 2003 |
774 | 100 | 1D-: President Clinton 1R+: President Bush |
| The price of being wrong 31 October 2003 |
873 | 71 | 1D+: Clinton administration 11D-: Democrats, John Kerry, Democratic, Kerry, Dean, Sharpton, Clinton administration, Clinton, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats 8R+: President Bush, the president, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush 1R-: Bush 2D=, 1R= |
| The most important book of the year 24 October 2003 |
847 | 0 | |
| The failure brigade 17 October 2003 |
775 | 0 | |
| Into the sewer we go -- led by Bono 14 October 2003 |
715 | 0 | |
| The scandal du jour 3 October 2003 |
844 | 44 | 2D+: Clinton, President Clinton 4D-: Democratic, Democrats, Democrat, Democrats 15R+: Karl Rove, White House, the president, Karl Rove, Rove, President Bush, Rove, Bush, Rove, White House, White House, Republicans, Rove, Bush administration, Bush 5R-: Republicans, White House, Republican, Chuck Hagel, Hagel 1R= |
| Free speech confusion 30 September 2003 |
733 | 0 | 1D-: Feingold 1R-: McCain |
| Who can you trust? 26 September 2003 |
750 | 0 | |
| The whiners 23 September 2003 |
783 | 0 | |
| Saddam, and 9/11 19 September 2003 |
972 | 56 | 1D-: Democrats 9R+: administration, The president, the president, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, President Bush 4D=, 4R= |
| At the trough 16 September 2003 |
828 | 50 | 1D+: Lawrence Summers 2D-: Democrats, Democrats 2R+: President Bush, The president 1R= |
| DC vouchers 12 September 2003 |
761 | 89 | 7D-: Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Bill Clinton, Richard Riley, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Richard Gephardt 1R+: Republicans 1D= |
| We have to win 9 September 2003 |
874 | 92 | 8D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, President Clinton 4R+: President Bush, President Bush, the President, the president 1R= |
| Mr. Both Way 5 September 2003 |
880 | 54 | 4D+: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Howard Dean 14D-: John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry 3R+: Bush, the president, President Bush 3R= |
| Sue the Jews 2 September 2003 |
779 | 0 | |
| Fat and folly 29 August 2003 |
710 | 0 | |
| Liberation isn't easy 22 August 2003 |
859 | 33 | 1D-: President Clinton 1R+: Reagan 1R-: Ronald Reagan |
| Western culture is superior 19 August 2003 |
826 | 0 | |
| Those fantastic socialist medical systems 15 August 2003 |
765 | 0 | |
| Schwarzenegger swaggers into the race 12 August 2003 |
775 | 0 | 2D-: Bill Clinton, Gray Davis 1R+: Arnold Schwarzenegger 3R-: Republican, Bob Packwood, Republicans 3R= |
| Masculinity makes a comeback 8 August 2003 |
717 | 100 | 3R+: President George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld |
| Deeply held beliefs 5 August 2003 |
848 | 31 | 3D+: Dianne Feinstein, Democrats, Democrats 6D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats 3R+: Republicans, Republicans, Republicans 1R-: Republicans 2D=, 1R= |
| Closer to home 1 August 2003 |
831 | 100 | 1R+: Ronald Reagan |
| A little perspective 29 July 2003 |
854 | 100 | 3D-: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Gore 3R+: president, President Bush, President Bush |
| Killing the goose that laid the golden egg 25 July 2003 |
839 | 25 | 2D-: Clinton administration, Democrats 2R+: Republicans, Republicans 2R-: Republicans, Republicans 1D=, 1R= |
| Did we lose the war in Iraq? 22 July 2003 |
755 | 100 | 1R+: President Bush |
| The scandal that wasn't 18 July 2003 |
883 | 93 | 6D-: Democrats, Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, Bob Graham, Democrats, Democrats 7R+: Nancy Reagan, the president, the president, Bush, Rumsfeld, administration, President Bush 1R= |
| Don't know much about history 15 July 2003 |
790 | 0 | |
| No to Liberia 11 July 2003 |
852 | 86 | 5D-: Jesse Jackson, Jackson, President Clinton, Jackson, Jackson 1R+: Bush administration 1R= |
| We, the people of the Supreme Court of the United States 8 July 2003 |
830 | 0 | |
| Conventional wisdom strikes out 4 July 2003 |
839 | 79 | 9D-: Democrats, Democratic Party, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic National Committee, Feingold, Democrats 7R+: Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, GOP, Republican National Committee, Republicans 1R-: McCain 1D=, 1R= |
| Straight talk about immigration 27 June 2003 |
863 | 0 | |
| WMDs and the Iraq war 24 June 2003 |
791 | 100 | 5R+: administration, Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush |
| Just another day in the life of freedom 20 June 2003 |
741 | 100 | 1R-: George W. Bush |
| How strange 17 June 2003 |
719 | 60 | 4D-: Hillary, Bill Clinton, Democrat, Roosevelt 1R-: Republican |
| Summer reading 13 June 2003 |
767 | 0 | |
| The Nazis, again 10 June 2003 |
731 | 0 | |
| Caution: Reality ahead 6 June 2003 |
770 | 0 | 1D+: Bill Clinton 1R+: President Bush 1D=, 1R= |
| What makes sense? 3 June 2003 |
794 | 0 | 3D=, 7R= |
| Bush the humanitarian 30 May 2003 |
809 | 79 | 1D+: Kennedy 1D-: Clinton 11R+: Bush, President Bush, Bush administration, Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, President Bush, President Bush, Bush administration 1D= |
| Memo to Supreme Court: Be brave 27 May 2003 |
757 | 0 | |
| L'affaire Blair and the Times 23 May 2003 |
802 | 100 | 1R+: Bush administration |
| The suffering Palestinians 20 May 2003 |
784 | 0 | |
| United Nations redux? 16 May 2003 |
706 | 100 | 2D-: John Kerry, Carl Levin |
| About those COPS 13 May 2003 |
762 | 78 | 1D+: Kerry 8D-: Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, President Clinton, The president, The president, Clinton administration, John Kerry, Kerry |
| The liberators 9 May 2003 |
789 | 0 | |
| Bennett's vice 6 May 2003 |
769 | 67 | 10R+: Bennett, Bill Bennett, Bill Bennett, Bennett, Bill Bennett, Bennett, Bennett, Bennett, Bennett, Bill Bennett 2R-: William Bennett, Bennett |
| Middle East roadmap: curves ahead 2 May 2003 |
803 | 50 | 1R+: President Bush 1R= |
| Domestic good news 29 April 2003 |
802 | 80 | 2D-: Democrats, President Clinton 2R+: Republicans, Republicans 1D= |
| Gratitude 25 April 2003 |
789 | 0 | |
| Searching for the lead lining 22 April 2003 |
862 | 10 | 1D-: Clinton 3R+: Bush, Republican, Bush administration 3R-: White House, administration, administration 3R= |
| Oliver Stone gets the ax 18 April 2003 |
758 | 0 | |
| Among some Arabs, bitterness reigns 15 April 2003 |
791 | 0 | |
| Recap 11 April 2003 |
820 | 100 | 3D-: Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean 6R+: president, president, the president, Wolfowitz, Bush administration, president |
| No shades of gray 8 April 2003 |
822 | 0 | |
| Our brave women 4 April 2003 |
809 | 100 | 2D-: President Clinton, Les Aspin |
| Peter Arnett: whose man in Baghdad? 1 April 2003 |
770 | 100 | 1R+: President Bush |
| The other menace 28 March 2003 |
812 | 33 | 3D-: Clinton administration, Clinton, Jimmy Carter 1R+: Bushes 2R-: administration, George H.W. Bush |
| Patience 25 March 2003 |
775 | 0 | |
| Pax Americana 21 March 2003 |
824 | 100 | 1D-: Democrats 12R+: Bush, Ronald Reagan, the president, president, the president, The president, Bush, George Bush, Reagan, President Bush, President Bush, George Bush |
| War and psychology 11 March 2003 |
811 | 50 | 1R+: George W. Bush 1R= |
| A timely primer 7 March 2003 |
817 | 100 | 1R+: President Bush |
| How to handle captured Al Qaeda terrorists 4 March 2003 |
771 | 100 | 1R+: The president |
| Saddam interview and Rather's cult of personality 28 February 2003 |
836 | 50 | 2D-: Ramsey Clark, Ramsey Clark 2R+: White House, Bush 4R= |
| Time for nation-building 25 February 2003 |
836 | 0 | |
| The left sides with terror - again 21 February 2003 |
818 | 100 | 2D-: Jesse Jackson, Jesse Jackson 5R+: President Reagan, Reagan, President Bush, Reagan, George Bush |
| Saudi tendrils 18 February 2003 |
875 | 20 | 1D+: Clinton 3R+: Bush administration, the president, Bush administration 6R-: the president, White House, Grover Norquist, Norquist, Norquist, Bush administration 10R= |
| Living with terror 14 February 2003 |
821 | 0 | 1R= |
| Funny, you don't look 11 February 2003 |
885 | 89 | 21D-: Democratic, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Wesley Clark, Clark, John Kerry, John Forbes Kerry, Kerry, Howard Dean, President Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Democrats, Sharpton, Democrats, Al Sharpton, Sharpton, Democratic, Sharpton, Lieberman, Sharpton, Sharpton 4R+: Bush, President Bush, Republican, the president 3D= |
| Not the liberals' kind of war 7 February 2003 |
844 | 43 | 3D+: Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Democratic 5D-: Carl Levin, Levin, Kerry, Democratic, Kerry 5R+: Secretary of State Colin Powell, Powell, administration, Bush administration, Bush administration 1R-: President Bush |
| One nation 4 February 2003 |
767 | 0 | |
| Malpractice by lawyers 31 January 2003 |
814 | 0 | |
| Is Iraq a distraction? 28 January 2003 |
814 | 42 | 1D+: Kerry 6D-: Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, President Clinton, Democrats 2R+: Bush, President Bush 2R-: Bush administration, Bush administration 1R= |
| Snapshot of American liberalism 24 January 2003 |
823 | 71 | 1D+: Kennedy 3D-: Teddy Kennedy, Ramsey Clark, Kennedy 3R+: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld |
| The fog of affirmative action 21 January 2003 |
819 | 0 | |
| Government-sponsored obesity 17 January 2003 |
771 | 100 | 1D-: Democrats |
| A cold war time bomb 14 January 2003 |
842 | 0 | |
| A discerning look at Bush, from an insider 13 January 2003 |
911 | 41 | 15R+: Bush, George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush 4R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush 8R= |
| Homeland security still neglected 7 January 2003 |
830 | 60 | 1D-: Democrat 4R-: administration, administration, Norman Mineta, Mineta |
| Just what we need 3 January 2003 |
823 | 89 | 8D-: John Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, John Edwards, Edwards, Edwards 1D= |