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Paul Krugman
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Columns 90
Words 77450
Median Partisanship Index 77.78
Total Partisanship Index 74.22
Combined Partisanship Index 76.00
Positive Democratic Index 8.62
Negative Democratic Index 1.26
Positive Republican Index 5.81
Negative Republican Index 72.67
Positive Index 14.44
Negative Index 73.93
Neutral Index 11.63



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 89 Clinton(8), Democrats(8), Kerry(7), Dean(6), Spitzer(5), Bill Clinton(5), Truman(5), Al Gore(4), Democrat(4), Howard Dean(3), Democratic(3), Gephardt(3), Clinton administration(2), John Kerry(2), Davis(2), Franklin Roosevelt(2), Harry Truman(2), Bob Graham(2), Eliot Spitzer(2), President Clinton, Gen. Wesley Clark, Brad Sherman, Roosevelt administration, Richard Gephardt, Wesley Clark, John Kennedy, Graham, the president, House Democrats, Edward Kennedy, Rush Holt, Holt, Gore
Negative Democratic 13 Democrats(2), the president(2), Franklin Roosevelt, Kerry, Democratic, Zell Miller, Richard J. Daley, Democrat, Ted Kennedy, Howard Dean, Lyndon Johnson
Neutral Democratic 21Democrats(5), Democratic(4), Gray Davis(2), Clinton administration, Clinton, Miller, John Kerry, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Truman, White House, John Breaux, Joe Lieberman
Positive Republican 60 Bush(14), President Bush(6), Republican(5), Republicans(4), Bush administration(4), Gregory Mankiw(2), Hubbard, Thomas Dewey, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Shelby, President George H. W. Bush, Glenn Hubbard, Dick Cheney, DeLay, Ari Fleischer, the president, Tom DeLay, Michael Bloomberg, Pete Wilson, Wilson, James Inhofe, White House, Nixon administration, Anthony Zinni, Reagan, Reagan administration, James Baker, Baker, first Bush administration, Colin Powell, Thomas Kean
Negative Republican 750 administration(214), Bush(172), Bush administration(96), George W. Bush(24), Republican(21), White House(21), DeLay(20), the president(16), Republicans(16), President Bush(16), Cheney(12), George Bush(8), Dick Cheney(7), Donald Rumsfeld(7), Tom DeLay(6), Snow(6), president(4), Racicot(4), Schwarzenegger(4), Republican Party(4), Wolfowitz(4), John Snow(3), Paul Wolfowitz(3), Perle(3), Karl Rove(2), Richard Perle(2), Mitch Daniels(2), Gingrich(2), Paul O'Neill(2), Republican National Committee(2), Senate Republicans(2), Colin Powell(2), Administration(2), Congressional Republicans(2), Powell(2), the President, House Republicans, Joseph McCarthy, Glenn Hubbard, Hubbard, Newt Gingrich, Bushies, Ari Fleischer, Rick Santorum, Grover Norquist, Hastert, Santorum, GOP, Ronald Reagan, Dennis Hastert, Rove, Frank Luntz, Republican-controlled Congress, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rush Limbaugh, Phil Gramm, Don Nickles, Gramm, Nickles, Rumsfeld, Nixon, Donald H. Rumsfeld, commander in chief, George W. , G.O.P. , Barry Goldwater, Nixonian, Hatch, President, Neil Bush, Henry Kissinger, R.N.C.
Neutral Republican 99Bush(30), President Bush(8), the president(5), White House(5), Bush administration(4), administration(4), George W. Bush(3), Republicans(3), Republican(3), Mankiw(3), George Bush(3), John Snow(2), Republican National Committee(2), Tom DeLay(2), Schwarzenegger(2), Marc Racicot, Bill Frist, Charles Grassley, Eisenhower administration, Reagan administration, Paul Wolfowitz, Karl Rove, Mitch Daniels, Glenn Hubbard, Grover Norquist, Norquist, Pat Roberts, Reagan, president, Dewey, George Nethercutt, Newt Gingrich, Orrin Hatch, Wolfowitz, Kean



List of Columns

Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
Our So-Called Boom
30 December 2003
809 100 1D+: Clinton
1R-: administration
New Year's Resolutions
26 December 2003
813 86 9D+: Al Gore, Howard Dean, Dean, Al Gore, Dean, Gore, Dean, Howard Dean, Dean
3R-: President Bush, the president, Bush
1D=, 1R=
Citizen Conrad’s Friends
23 December 2003
824 100 6R-: Henry Kissinger, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, Perle, Perle, Perle
Telling It Right
19 December 2003
826 67 1R+: Thomas Kean
7R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, Dick Cheney, Bush administration
1R=
Patriots and Profits
16 December 2003
845 85 5D+: Clinton, Harry Truman, Truman, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman
1D-: Lyndon Johnson
7R-: Dick Cheney, Bush administration, administration, President Bush, Neil Bush, George Bush, Dick Cheney
A Deliberate Debacle
12 December 2003
842 41 5R+: James Baker, Baker, first Bush administration, Colin Powell, Republican
14R-: Paul Wolfowitz, administration, administration, Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, George W. Bush, administration, Bush, Bush
3R=
Looting the Future
5 December 2003
828 54 1D-: Democrats
1R+: Republicans
9R-: administration, Bush administration, administration, Bush, administration, administration, Bush administration, Republican, Bush
2R=
Hack the Vote
2 December 2003
796 56 3D+: Rush Holt, Holt, Democratic
2R-: Hatch, Republican
4R=
The Good News
28 November 2003
788 33 1R+: Reagan administration
2R-: administration, Bush administration
The Uncivil War
25 November 2003
822 73 1D+: Clinton
1R+: Reagan
11R-: administration, administration, administration, the president, Republican Party, Bush administration, Nixonian, Republican National Committee, the president, the president, the president
2R=
AARP Gone Astray
21 November 2003
808 25 1R-: Gingrich
2D=, 1R=
Funds and Games
18 November 2003
797 100 1D+: Eliot Spitzer
1R-: administration
The Trojan Horse
14 November 2003
775 100 2D+: Democrats, Edward Kennedy
2R-: Barry Goldwater, Republicans
Support the Troops
11 November 2003
836 65 2R+: Anthony Zinni, President Bush
13R-: Bush administration, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, administration, administration, George W. Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration, administration, the president, administration, administration, administration
2R=
Flags Versus Dollars
7 November 2003
867 32 5D+: Democrats, Dean, Democrats, Democrats, Dean
1D-: Howard Dean
3R+: Republicans, Republicans, Bush
6R-: Republican, Republican, Bush, Republican, Republicans, G.O.P.
5D=, 2R=
This Can't Go On
4 November 2003
808 33 1R+: Nixon administration
2R-: Republican, the president
A Big Quarter
31 October 2003
817 50 2R-: Bush, President Bush
2R=
A Willful Ignorance
28 October 2003
823 100 7R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, Bush administration
Too Low a Bar
24 October 2003
902 100 4D+: Bill Clinton, Clinton administration, Clinton, Bill Clinton
18R-: John Snow, Snow, Snow, administration, White House, Snow, administration, Snow, George W. Bush, Snow, Snow, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush
Listening to Mahathir
21 October 2003
784 0 1R+: White House
1R-: Donald Rumsfeld
The Sweet Spot
17 October 2003
865 88 14R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, president, administration, Bush, George W. Bush, administration, administration, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, Bush
1D=, 1R=
Don't Look Down
14 October 2003
800 100 1R-: commander in chief
Lessons in Civility
10 October 2003
905 100 5D+: Clinton, the president, Al Gore, John Kerry, Bill Clinton
17R-: administration, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, administration, administration, George W. Bush, administration, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Bush, Bush, administration, the president, administration, the president, Bush, Bush
Lumps of Labor
7 October 2003
816 100 6R-: Bush administration, administration, Bush administration, administration, Bush, the president
Slime and Defend
3 October 2003
883 78 1D+: Democrats
2R+: President Bush, Bush
15R-: administration, President Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, the president, Bush, White House, Nixon, Republican, administration, Republicans, Tom DeLay, Bush, Bush
Who's Sordid Now
30 September 2003
842 89 4D+: Harry Truman, Truman, Truman, Truman
12R-: administration, George W. Bush, administration, White House, administration, White House, Dick Cheney, Republican, administration, Bush, Cheney, administration
2D=
Exploiting the Atrocity
12 September 2003
876 90 2D+: Howard Dean, Wesley Clark
1R+: Bush
18R-: administration, President Bush, administration, the president, Bush, Bush, administration, administration, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, administration, administration, administration
Other People's Sacrifice
9 September 2003
879 92 11R-: Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush
1R=
The China Syndrome
5 September 2003
849 92 11R-: Bush administration, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush
1R=
Another Friday Outrage
2 September 2003
768 100 1D+: Democrat
2R-: Bush administration, Republicans
Fistfuls of Dollars
29 August 2003
829 67 1R+: President Bush
5R-: administration, Donald Rumsfeld, administration, Rumsfeld, administration
Dust and Deception
26 August 2003
858 71 2R+: President Bush, Bush
14R-: White House, Bush administration, administration, White House, Republicans, Phil Gramm, Don Nickles, Mitch Daniels, White House, Gramm, Nickles, administration, Bush, Republicans
1R=
Conan the Deceiver
22 August 2003
831 67 6R-: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, George W. Bush, Schwarzenegger
1D=, 2R=
The Road to Ruin
19 August 2003
748 60 1D+: Democratic
1R+: President Bush
3R-: Tom DeLay, administration, Senate Republicans
Twilight Zone Economics
15 August 2003
800 0
Thanks for the M.R.E.'s
12 August 2003
843 100 5R-: President Bush, Republican-controlled Congress, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration
Salt of the Earth
8 August 2003
803 71 1R+: James Inhofe
6R-: Bush administration, Frank Luntz, Republican, Republicans, President Bush, Bush
Everything Is Political
5 August 2003
861 94 15R-: administration, Bush administration, White House, Bush administration, White House, John Snow, Karl Rove, Rove, George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, White House, Bush, administration, administration
1D=
State of Decline
1 August 2003
842 22 2D+: Davis, Davis
3R+: Michael Bloomberg, Pete Wilson, Wilson
3R-: Republican, Senate Republicans, administration
1D=
You Say Tomato
29 July 2003
847 33 2D-: Democrat, Ted Kennedy
1R+: Tom DeLay
8R-: Bush administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, DeLay, Bush administration, Bush
4R=
Dropping the Bonds
25 July 2003
801 100 1D+: Brad Sherman
2R-: Bush, Bush
Who's Unpatriotic Now?
22 July 2003
843 100 11R-: administration, White House, administration, George Bush, administration, Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, Bush administration, administration
Passing It Along
18 July 2003
865 88 14R-: Bush, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, Ronald Reagan, administration, administration, Bush administration, Bush, administration, Bush
2R=
Pattern of Corruption
15 July 2003
848 70 1D+: Gen. Wesley Clark
1R+: the president
7R-: Bush administration, White House, Donald Rumsfeld, administration, administration, Bush administration, White House
1R=
Toward One-Party Rule
27 June 2003
862 50 1D+: Democrats
1D-: Richard J. Daley
2R+: DeLay, Ari Fleischer
11R-: Rick Santorum, Grover Norquist, Republican, Republican National Committee, Republicans, Santorum, George W. Bush, Republican, DeLay, Republican, GOP
1D=, 2R=
Denial and Deception
24 June 2003
906 76 16R-: White House, George W. Bush, Bush administration, Bush, administration, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Republican, Republicans, administration, Bush
5R=
Still Blowing Bubbles
20 June 2003
794 100 1R-: Bush
Dereliction of Duty
17 June 2003
847 85 1D+: Democrat
10R-: Bush administration, administration, Bush administration, administration, George W. Bush, administration, Bush administration, administration, administration, Donald Rumsfeld
2R=
'Some Crazy Guy'
13 June 2003
887 89 3D+: Democrats, Democrats, President Clinton
1R+: Republican
23R-: Tom DeLay, Newt Gingrich, Republican, DeLay, DeLay, Gingrich, DeLay, DeLay, DeLay, Republican, DeLay, DeLay, Republicans, DeLay, DeLay, Republicans, DeLay, DeLay, DeLay, DeLay, DeLay, DeLay, DeLay
1D=
Who's Accountable?
10 June 2003
835 73 2R+: Bush, Dick Cheney
13R-: Bush, Colin Powell, Bush administration, administration, Bush, President Bush, Bush, administration, administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Paul Wolfowitz, administration
Duped and Betrayed
6 June 2003
862 8 2D-: Zell Miller, Democrats
1R+: Glenn Hubbard
4R-: Bush administration, administration, George W. Bush, Bush
1D=, 5R=
Standard Operating Procedure
3 June 2003
836 71 1D-: Democratic
11R-: Bush administration, Bush, Bush administration, administration, Bush, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, Bush
2R=
Waggy Dog Stories
30 May 2003
878 25 3R+: President Bush, Bush, Bush
7R-: Bush, George W. Bush, Administration, Bush, administration, White House, Bush
6R=
Stating the Obvious
27 May 2003
843 80 8R-: Republicans, Bush administration, administration, administration, Bush, administration, Republicans, Bush administration
2R=
Fear of a Quagmire?
24 May 2003
1641 100 1R-: Bush administration
Paths of Glory
16 May 2003
875 62 3D+: Bob Graham, Democrat, Graham
3R+: Republican, Richard Shelby, President George H. W. Bush
13R-: George W. Bush, Bush administration, administration, Bush, administration, Bush administration, Republicans, Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, Bush, Bush administration
1D=, 1R=
The China Syndrome
13 May 2003
819 50 1D+: Bob Graham
1R-: administration
2R=
Into the Sunset
9 May 2003
887 100 9R-: administration, President Bush, administration, administration, administration, administration, Bush, administration, Bush
Man on Horseback
6 May 2003
878 88 1D+: John Kennedy
1R+: Dwight Eisenhower
15R-: George Bush, the president, White House, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Republican Party, administration, president
The Acid Test
2 May 2003
870 64 8D+: Eliot Spitzer, Spitzer, Spitzer, Spitzer, Spitzer, Spitzer, Clinton, Bill Clinton
1D-: the president
1R+: Bush administration
1R-: Richard Perle
Matters of Emphasis
29 April 2003
859 73 1R+: Bush administration
9R-: administration, administration, President Bush, Bush, Bush administration, administration, administration, Bush, Bush
1R=
Roads Not Taken
25 April 2003
865 100 5D+: Richard Gephardt, Gephardt, Gephardt, Bill Clinton, Gephardt
4R-: Bush, George Bush, Bush, administration
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
22 April 2003
921 93 1D+: Franklin Roosevelt
13R-: President Bush, Republican, Joseph McCarthy, Bush administration, Bush, administration, Bush administration, Bush, administration, administration, administration, administration, Bush
1R=
Rejecting the World
18 April 2003
852 75 1R+: Bush administration
7R-: George Bush, Bush, House Republicans, Bush, Bush, Tom DeLay, Bush
Behind Our Backs
15 April 2003
863 56 1R+: Republicans
6R-: Bush administration, Republican, Republican, Republican Party, the President, Bush
2R=
Conquest and Neglect
11 April 2003
876 56 1R+: Bush
6R-: Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, White House, administration
2R=
The Last Refuge
8 April 2003
963 59 10D+: Roosevelt administration, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democrat, Kerry
3D-: Franklin Roosevelt, the president, Kerry
2R+: Thomas Dewey, Republican
14R-: the president, Republicans, Racicot, Racicot, Racicot, R.N.C. , Tom DeLay, DeLay, DeLay, Tom DeLay, Bush administration, administration, Racicot, the president
3R=
Gun, Germs and Stall?
4 April 2003
804 0
A Red-Blue Terror Alert
1 April 2003
850 89 1D+: Al Gore
7R-: Congressional Republicans, President, Bush administration, administration, Republican, Bush, Bush administration
1R=
Delusions of Power
28 March 2003
854 100 14R-: Dick Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Bush administration, Congressional Republicans, Cheney
Channels of Influence
25 March 2003
848 89 1D+: Clinton
7R-: Bush administration, George W. Bush, Bush, Republican Party, Bush, Bush, Bush administration
1R=
Who Lost the U.S. Budget?
21 March 2003
857 100 9R-: Bush, administration, George W. Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush
Things to Come
18 March 2003
896 100 1D+: Clinton administration
9R-: Bush, Bush administration, administration, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration, administration
George W. Queeg
14 March 2003
925 88 14R-: George W. , George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, administration, George Bush, George Bush
1D=, 1R=
A Fiscal Train Wreck
11 March 2003
870 67 1R+: Gregory Mankiw
5R-: administration, administration, administration, Bush, Rush Limbaugh
Let Them Hate as Long as They Fear
7 March 2003
903 78 1R+: Bush administration
15R-: president, administration, Bush administration, George Bush, Bush administration, White House, Bush, Bush, Hastert, Dennis Hastert, Republican, administration, Bush, administration, president
2R=
No Relief in Sight
28 February 2003
877 54 1R+: Gregory Mankiw
8R-: administration, Bush administration, administration, Bush, administration, administration, administration, administration
4R=
Threats, Promises and Lies
25 February 2003
939 68 15R-: President Bush, administration, Bush administration, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, administration
7R=
The Martial Plan
21 February 2003
883 100 13R-: Bush administration, administration, President Bush, President Bush, administration, Bush, Administration, Bush, Ari Fleischer, administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, administration
Behind the Great Divide
18 February 2003
872 43 1R+: Bush
4R-: Bush administration, administration, Bush administration, administration
2R=
On the Second Day, Atlas Waffled
14 February 2003
898 100 12R-: White House, the president, Bushies, administration, administration, Bush, administration, Paul O'Neill, Colin Powell, Powell, Powell, George W. Bush
The Wimps of War
11 February 2003
893 88 15R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, White House, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush
2R=
Is the Maestro a Hack?
7 February 2003
889 56 2R+: Bush, Bush
11R-: Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, administration, administration, Bush, administration, Bush
1D=, 2R=
A Failed Mission
4 February 2003
835 100 1R-: Bush administration
A Credibility Problem
28 January 2003
894 69 1R+: Republican
12R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, administration, John Snow, administration, Paul O'Neill
3R=
A Touch of Class
21 January 2003
878 73 1R+: Bush
12R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, George W. Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, Bush
2R=
Off the Wagon
17 January 2003
885 82 1R+: Hubbard
15R-: Bush administration, George W. Bush, Mitch Daniels, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, administration, administration, administration, Glenn Hubbard, Hubbard, Republicans, White House, administration
1R=
Stimulus for Lawyers
14 January 2003
840 80 4R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, George W. Bush
1R=
An Irrelevant Proposal
7 January 2003
891 92 3D+: Clinton, House Democrats, Democratic
9R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, administration, Karl Rove
1R=
Games Nations Play
3 January 2003
938 72 2R+: Bush, Bush
15R-: Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration
1D=