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The absurdity of partisanship
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Columns 97
Words 81515
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 40.00
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 51.05
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 45.53
Democratic Index -56.74
Republican Index 42.64
Positive Index 30.85
Negative Index 39.12
Neutral Index 30.03
Kerry Index -69.49
Bush Index 59.46



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 57 Clinton(6), Kerry(5), John Kerry(4), Aspin(4), Califano(3), Lee Hamilton(2), Clinton administration(2), Harry Truman(2), Democrats(2), Democrat(2), President Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph A. Califano, Bobby Kennedy, RFK, President Bill Clinton, administration, Democratic, Zell Miller, Harold Ickes, Bill Clinton's administration, Joseph Lieberman, Lieberman, Adlai Stevenson, Lloyd Bentsen, Edwards, Ted Kennedy, Kennedy, William Proxmire, Geraldine Ferraro, Preston Smith, Barbara Mikulski, Truman, Les Aspin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Perry
Negative Democratic 482 Kerry(166), Democrats(60), John Kerry(26), Democratic(26), Edwards(25), Clinton(16), Democrat(15), McGreevey(14), Berger(9), Clinton administration(8), Bill Clinton(8), Dean(7), Howard Dean(7), John Edwards(6), Gore(5), Carter(4), John F. Kerry(4), Jimmy Carter(3), Lyndon Johnson(3), George Soros(3), Democratic Party(3), Hillary Clinton(3), President Bill Clinton(3), President Clinton(3), George Stephanopoulos(2), Tom Harkin(2), Barnes(2), Feinstein(2), Clinton White House, William Jefferson Clinton, Daniel Inouye, Robert Byrd, Mark Warner, President Lyndon Johnson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bill and Hillary , congressional Democrats, former President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Frank Church, President Jimmy Carter, President Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sandy Berger, White House, Cynthia McKinney, McKinney, Former President Bill Clinton, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Heinz Kerry, John F. Kennedy, JFK, James McGreevey, James Carville, Gary Hart, Marion Barry, Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, Leon Panetta, Max Cleland, Ben Barnes, Former President Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Tom Daschle, Daschle, McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis, John Conyers, Democrat party, Democrat Party, Ted Kennedy, Dianne Feinstein, former President Jimmy Carter
Neutral Democratic 210Kerry(55), Democrats(28), John Kerry(10), Democratic(8), Edwards(8), Clinton(8), Bill Clinton(6), Dean(5), Berger(5), President Clinton(4), Hillary Clinton(4), Clinton administration(4), Democrat(4), Howard Dean(3), Kennedy(3), Hillary(3), Al Gore(3), Walter Mondale(2), Dorgan(2), Johnson(2), Democratic Party(2), JFK(2), Lyndon Johnson(2), McGreevey(2), Vice President Al Gore(2), Panetta, Jon Corzine, Corzine, President Jimmy Carter, Democratic Congress, Ted Kennedy, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George McGovern, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Edwards, Bob Kerrey, Patrick Leahy, Leahy, Barney Frank, Bob Beckel, Charles Rangel, administration, Sandy Berger, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Barbara Boxer, Harry Reid, J. William Fulbright, Dick Gephardt, Democratic Leadership Council, Joseph Califano, Ann Richards, Richard Gephardt, Byron Dorgan, Jimmy Carter administration, Harry Truman, Aspin, Donna Brazile, Dianne Feinstein
Positive Republican 394 Bush(76), President Bush(62), the president(57), The president(14), Cheney(13), Republicans(12), Bush administration(12), Ronald Reagan(11), Reagan(11), George W. Bush(9), administration(9), Rice(8), Republican(8), Vice President(6), Pence(6), Hutchison(5), president(5), Republican National Committee(5), White House(4), Vice President Dick Cheney(3), GOP(3), President George W. Bush(3), Condoleezza Rice(3), George Bush(3), O'Neill(2), President(2), Dan Quayle(2), Laura Bush(2), Kay Bailey Hutchison(2), McCain(2), Hobby(2), Dwight Eisenhower(2), Danforth(2), Richard Perle, Quayle, Mike Pence, Trent Lott, John Lehman, Reaganite, Mark Sanford, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Sanford, Bush Administration, "Kit" Bond, Arlen Specter, Karl Rove, Jeff Flake, Flake, Nancy Kassebaum Baker, Ronald Wilson Reagan, Oveta Culp Hobby, vice president, Thomas Kean, President Reagan, John Danforth, Ryan, Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Goldwater, Republican Party
Negative Republican 90 O'Neill(9), President Bush(7), Schwarzenegger(6), Republicans(5), the president(5), Republican(5), Richard Nixon(5), Bush(3), President Richard Nixon(2), Bush administration(2), Republican Congress(2), president(2), Reagan(2), White House(2), Dan Quayle(2), Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta(2), Nixon(2), Republican Party(2), Paul O'Neill(2), Powell, George H.W. Bush, Scott McClellan, administration, Ted Stevens, Republican House, Tom Latham, President Eisenhower, Vice President Dick Cheney, GOP, John Mitchell, Dwight Eisenhower, Cheney, Vice President, Ronald Reagan, Congressional Republicans, Bernie Kerik, Arnold, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Bush, Nelson Rockefeller, Charles Halleck, Rockefeller
Neutral Republican 229the president(38), President Bush(35), Bush(22), Republicans(21), Republican(9), Bush administration(8), administration(7), The president(6), Reagan(5), Cheney(5), Quayle(5), White House(4), Ronald Reagan(3), GOP(3), Republican Party(3), Schwarzenegger(3), Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld(2), Vice President Dick Cheney(2), president(2), Donald Rumsfeld(2), Jeb Bush(2), Richard Nixon(2), Secretary of State Colin Powell(2), George W. Bush(2), Bush Administration(2), Reagan administration(2), Nixon(2), President George W. Bush(2), Rice, president of the United States, Elizabeth Dole, Rumsfeld, the President, The President, President, Karl Rove, George Bush, Newt Gingrich, Republican Senate, Jack Ryan, Ryan, President George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, President George Bush, John McCain, McCain, Orrin Hatch, John Kyl, pPence, Dan Quayle, Mitch McConnell, George H.W. Bush, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., George Pataki, Karen Hughes, President Dwight Eisenhower



List of Columns

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.
Title/
Date
words Norm
PI
Partisan References
Four elections affect freedom worldwide
29 December 2004
788 100 2D-: President Bill Clinton, former President Jimmy Carter
2R+: George W. Bush, President Bush
The Democrats try to get back on track
27 December 2004
850 56 13D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrat, Democrat, Democrats, Feinstein, Feinstein, Democratic Party, Democrats, Dianne Feinstein, Democrats
8D=, 3R=
Arnold: Is victory not good enough?
22 December 2004
887 0 3D-: Democrat party, Democrat Party, Democrats
9R+: Richard Nixon, Republican, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, GOP, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Goldwater, Republican Party
13R-: Arnold, Republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Nelson Rockefeller, Charles Halleck, Republican Party, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Rockefeller, Schwarzenegger
3D=, 15R=

20 December 2004
766 74 7D+: Les Aspin, Aspin, Aspin, Aspin, Aspin, William Perry, Clinton administration
1D=, 2R=
The 'loyal opposition' struggles for relevance
15 December 2004
945 35 2D+: Harry Truman, Truman
14D-: Democrats, John Conyers, Democrat, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrat, Lyndon Johnson, Democrats, Democrats, Democrat, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
1R+: President Bush
2R-: President Bush, Bernie Kerik
9D=, 7R=
Taking back Christmas
14 December 2004
749 0
U.S. out of U.N. - now!
8 December 2004
798 100 4R+: Dwight Eisenhower, John Danforth, Danforth, Danforth
Reformer with results revisited
6 December 2004
790 40 6R+: President Bush, The president, the president, the president, Ronald Reagan, President Reagan
2R-: Republican Party, the president
2R=
Women as heroines
1 December 2004
825 40 4D+: Geraldine Ferraro, Preston Smith, Barbara Mikulski, Democrat
13R+: Kay Bailey Hutchison, Hutchison, Republican, Hutchison, Condoleezza Rice, Oveta Culp Hobby, Hobby, Dwight Eisenhower, Hobby, Hutchison, Hutchison, Hutchison, Kay Bailey Hutchison
An opportunity for Democrats in red states
29 November 2004
824 27 2D-: Democrats, Democrats
4D=, 2R=
Dan Rather blinks
25 November 2004
818 0 2R+: George W. Bush, Bush
2R-: Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon
2R=
Cut the spending
22 November 2004
829 11 1D+: William Proxmire
1D-: Democrats
4R+: Jeff Flake, Republican, Flake, the president
2R-: Republican, Republican Congress
1D=, 8R=
More killers for President!
15 November 2004
802 0 1R+: President Bush
1R-: President Bush
3R=
Yasser Arafat's legacy
12 November 2004
785 0 1R=
Focus on the wrong families?
10 November 2004
851 29 3R+: George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, the president
1R-: Reagan
3R=
The election 2004
3 November 2004
1016 79 20D-: Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Democrats, Kerry, Edwards, Democrats, Democrats, Tom Daschle, Kerry, Democrat, Democrats, Daschle, Democrats, George Soros, Democrats, McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis, Kerry, Democrat, Hillary Clinton
12R+: President George W. Bush, president, Republicans, Bush Administration, president, President Bush, "Kit" Bond, Arlen Specter, Bush, The president, White House, Karl Rove
1R-: Ronald Reagan
1D=, 7R=
The media vote
25 October 2004
871 67 2D-: John Kerry, George Soros
8R+: Bush administration, administration, George Bush, Bush, Bush, Republican, Bush, President Bush
3D=, 1R=
A healthier choice
21 October 2004
836 71 2D-: Kerry, Kerry
3R+: President Bush, Bush, Bush
1D=, 1R=
Airport insanity
13 October 2004
794 77 2D+: Ted Kennedy, Kennedy
2R-: Bush administration, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta
1D=
What you don't see, you get
11 October 2004
1027 58 3D+: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
17D-: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Bill Clinton, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Michael Dukakis, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
11R+: President Bush, the president, Bush, The president, Bush, Bush, Bush, President Bush, Bush, the president, The president
1R-: the president
4D=, 5R=
Number twos try harder
7 October 2004
994 55 2D+: Lloyd Bentsen, Edwards
16D-: John Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards, Democratic, Kerry, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards
15R+: Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney, Vice President, Vice President, Cheney, Vice President, Cheney, Cheney, Vice President, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Vice President, Cheney, Vice President
3R-: Dan Quayle, Cheney, Vice President
6D=, 6R=
Daniel in the lions' den
4 October 2004
704 0
No knockout punch
3 October 2004
935 81 2D+: John Kerry, Kerry
14D-: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
14R+: President Bush, the president, the president, The president, President Bush, the president, President Bush, President Bush, the president, the president, Bush, The president, President Bush, Bush
1D=
The media's trust problem
29 September 2004
848 28 1D-: Kerry
1R+: George Bush
3D=, 2R=
Debate advice and questions
27 September 2004
835 31 3D-: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
1R+: the president
1R-: President Bush
1D=, 6R=
Coherence vs. incoherence
22 September 2004
826 81 7D-: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry
12R+: President Bush, The president, the president, The president, Bush, the president, the president, the president, the president, Bush, Bush, the president
3D=, 1R=
John Kerry does it again
20 September 2004
847 80 15D-: John Kerry, Democratic, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
4R+: President Bush, the president, George W. Bush, the president
3D=, 2R=
The 'death' of CBS News
15 September 2004
878 86 7D-: Ben Barnes, Barnes, John Kerry, Barnes, Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry
5R+: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, the president, Bush
1D=, 1R=
Speaking truth about terror
8 September 2004
805 37 1D-: Kerry
1D=, 1R=
The Bush hour
7 September 2004
888 52 4D-: Democrat, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
10R+: Bush, the president, Bush, The president, George W. Bush, the president, Bush, Bush, the president, George W. Bush
1R-: president
1D=, 10R=
Fighting terrorists the right and wrong way
1 September 2004
823 100 9D-: John Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Kerry, Clinton administration, Jimmy Carter, Carter, Carter, Clinton administration
1R+: Bush administration
Black eye for Bush guy
30 August 2004
910 67 1D+: Clinton
2D-: Clinton, Clinton
14R+: Bush, President George W. Bush, the president, Bush, Bush, GOP, Bush, Bush, Republican, Bush, Bush, Bush, the president, Bush
2D=, 2R=
Those campaign commercials
25 August 2004
979 69 2D+: Adlai Stevenson, Democrats
20D-: Democratic, John Kerry, Kerry, Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, Democrats, George Soros, Kerry, Democrats, Democrats, Gore, Gore, Kerry, Tom Harkin, Howard Dean, Max Cleland, Democrats, Democrats, Jimmy Carter, Democrats
13R+: President Bush, the president, President Bush, Republicans, President Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney, the president, Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Republicans, Ronald Reagan
3D=, 7R=
GOP's answer to Michael Moore
23 August 2004
939 58 2D+: Joseph Lieberman, Lieberman
12D-: John Kerry, Kerry, Democratic, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
9R+: GOP, Republican National Committee, Bush, Bush administration, President Bush, the president, President Bush, Bush, Republican National Committee
8D=
Putting Florida children last
19 August 2004
771 25 1R+: Bush
3R=
Playing the gay card
16 August 2004
932 81 20D-: Democratic, James McGreevey, McGreevey, McGreevey, McGreevey, McGreevey, Democratic, McGreevey, McGreevey, McGreevey, McGreevey, McGreevey, McGreevey, McGreevey, McGreevey, McGreevey, McGreevey, Gary Hart, Marion Barry, Democrat
1R-: Republicans
3D=
If at first you don't succeed...
11 August 2004
772 0
Why truth matters
9 August 2004
1005 49 15D-: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democratic Party, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
4R+: the president, Bush, McCain, McCain
14D=, 6R=
The truth gap
3 August 2004
1006 79 1D+: Democrats
25D-: John F. Kennedy, Democratic, John F. Kerry, JFK, Clinton, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, Kerry, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry, Clinton, Kerry, Kerry, President Clinton, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry
2R+: Republicans, Republicans
4D=, 1R=
Kerry's stealth plan for Iraq
2 August 2004
850 49 1D+: Kerry
15D-: Kerry, Lyndon Johnson, John Kerry, Democratic, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry
4R-: Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Nixon, President Bush
2D=, 3R=
The convention cover-up
27 July 2004
968 61 13D-: Democratic, Democratic, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Former President Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, John Kerry, Democrats, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Heinz Kerry, Democrats
8R+: Ronald Reagan, Bush, President Bush, Bush, Republicans, Republicans, President Bush, Republicans
2R-: Nixon, John Mitchell
8D=
Where was the big media before 9/11?
26 July 2004
1000 72 3D-: Cynthia McKinney, McKinney, Democratic
2R+: John Lehman, Republican
1R-: Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta
When the foundations are being destroyed
22 July 2004
878 9 1D+: Zell Miller
1R+: the president
2R=
Is Berger fried?
20 July 2004
868 69 20D-: Berger, President Clinton, Sandy Berger, Democratic, John Kerry, Berger, Democrats, Berger, Berger, Berger, Hillary Clinton, White House, Berger, Clinton administration, Kerry, Berger, Berger, Kerry, Kerry, Berger
4R+: Condoleezza Rice, Bush, Cheney, Trent Lott
9D=, 2R=
Finding fault with intelligence
12 July 2004
826 60 5D-: Democratic, John Edwards, Frank Church, President Jimmy Carter, President Kennedy
2R+: White House, administration
1R-: President Eisenhower
1D=, 2R=
Lightweight and lighter weight
7 July 2004
1045 62 23D-: John Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, John Edwards, Edwards, John Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Democratic
11R+: Dan Quayle, Quayle, Bush administration, Republican National Committee, Republican National Committee, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, President Bush, Bush, Cheney, Dan Quayle
17D=, 3R=
Education plus money does not equal achievement
6 July 2004
731 100 1D-: Lyndon Johnson
Curses and profanities
29 June 2004
997 59 1D+: Harold Ickes
13D-: Democrats, former President Bill Clinton, Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Howard Dean, Democrats, Gore, Gore, Gore, Clinton, James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, Franklin D. Roosevelt
10R+: vice president, Cheney, Republicans, Ryan, Bush, Bush, the president, President Bush, Cheney, the president
1R-: Richard Nixon
2D=, 10R=
Now for the hard part in Iraq
28 June 2004
670 0
Media recruiting less credibility
23 June 2004
829 41 1D-: Bill Clinton
1R+: Bush
1R-: Republican
The Iraq-Al Qaeda-terrorism connection explained
22 June 2004
757 2 3D+: Lee Hamilton, Democratic, John Kerry
1D-: Kerry
3R+: Bush administration, Thomas Kean, President Bush
Some Irish eyes aren't smiling for Bush
16 June 2004
873 60 11R+: Bush, President Bush, Bush, President Bush, President Bush, President Bush, Ronald Reagan, President Bush, President Bush, Bush, Ronald Reagan
1D=, 6R=
Giving 'exodus' a new meaning
14 June 2004
777 58 1D-: Democrats
1R=
Recent Iraq history
9 June 2004
818 26 6D+: President Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, administration, Clinton, Clinton
5D-: Democratic, John Kerry, congressional Democrats, Democrats, Kerry
9R+: President Bush, President Bush, the president, President Bush, President Bush, President Bush, The president, the president, the president
3D=, 1R=
Ronald Reagan's wonderful life
7 June 2004
744 64 2D+: Bobby Kennedy, RFK
1D-: Jimmy Carter
14R+: Ronald Reagan, Ronald Wilson Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, president, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Reagan
1D=
Why the right judge matters
6 June 2004
765 71 1D-: Bill Clinton
1R+: President Bush
1R=
War and a special rememberance
1 June 2004
799 0 1D=
Listen to the doctor
24 May 2004
877 63 1D-: Democrats
1R+: Republicans
1D=
Marriage Massachusetts-style
19 May 2004
763 0
The best little whorehouse in Iraq
17 May 2004
792 100 1R+: Nancy Kassebaum Baker
Unlearned lessons from 'The Passion'
12 May 2004
713 0
A 'sorry' spectacle
10 May 2004
847 0 6R=
Those Iraqi prisoner pictures
5 May 2004
806 0
Does European Union mean European unity?
3 May 2004
795 0
The 'presumptive' nominee
28 April 2004
935 46 18D-: Democrats, John Kerry, Democratic, Kerry, Democrats, Bill Clinton, Kerry, Kerry, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bill and Hillary , Kerry, Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Clinton, Kerry, Kerry
2R+: the president, President Bush
20D=, 4R=
John Kerry's Catholic problem
26 April 2004
873 26 5D+: Joseph A. Califano, Democrat, Califano, Califano, Califano
10D-: John Kerry, John Kerry, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
4D=
Sharon's big gamble
19 April 2004
831 29 3D-: President Lyndon Johnson, President Bill Clinton, Clinton
1R-: President Richard Nixon
6R=
Apologize for what?
14 April 2004
856 79 2D+: President Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman
5D-: John Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, Democratic, John Kerry
17R+: President Bush, the president, President, President, the president, Bush, The president, president, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, the president, Bush, president, George Bush, the president, the president
Authority figure
12 April 2004
821 58 1D+: Lee Hamilton
1D-: Clinton
9R+: Condoleezza Rice, Rice, Rice, Rice, Rice, Rice, Rice, Rice, Rice
1R-: Bush
1R=
No, Virginia, government isn't Santa Claus
7 April 2004
777 51 3D-: Mark Warner, Democrat, Democrat
3R+: Mark Sanford, Sanford, Republicans
2R-: Republican, Republicans
1R=
President Bush's secret weapon
5 April 2004
871 60 1D-: Democrats
11R+: President Bush, President Bush, Laura Bush, Bush, Bush, the president, President Bush, Bush, the president, Bush, Laura Bush
3D=, 4R=
Our misspent tax dollars
31 March 2004
870 36 6D-: Democrat, Daniel Inouye, Democratic, Tom Harkin, Robert Byrd, Democrat
4R-: Republican, Ted Stevens, Republican House, Tom Latham
Spinning John Wesley
29 March 2004
815 0
Living and dying by the sword
23 March 2004
764 0 1R+: Bush administration
1R-: Scott McClellan
1R=
The blame game
22 March 2004
817 100 13D-: Clinton administration, John F. Kerry, Kerry, President Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton administration, President Clinton, Clinton administration, Democratic, John F. Kerry, Clinton administration, William Jefferson Clinton
11R+: Bush administration, administration, administration, President Bush, President Bush, administration, Bush administration, Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration, George W. Bush
Politics as art and science - or dishonesty?
17 March 2004
866 81 20D-: John Kerry, Kerry, Clinton White House, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Howard Dean, Kerry, Dean, Kerry, Dean, Dean, John Kerry, Dean, Kerry, Kerry, Democrat, Kerry, Kerry
5R+: Bush, the president, President Bush, Bush, the president
4D=, 2R=
Terror rains on Spain
15 March 2004
790 100 1D-: John Kerry
2R+: President Bush, Ronald Reagan
Peace with honor
10 March 2004
705 25 1R-: President Richard Nixon
3R=
What is the law?
8 March 2004
826 27 2D-: John Kerry, Democratic
1R+: President George W. Bush
2R-: Reagan, George H.W. Bush
1R=
The fairness doctrine
1 March 2004
799 0 2R=
Bush strikes back
25 February 2004
840 66 11D-: John Kerry, Democratic Party, Democratic, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Bill Clinton, Kerry, Kerry
10R+: Bush, President Bush, Bush, the president, the president, Republican National Committee, Bush, the president, Bush, the president
8D=, 2R=
It's showtime
23 February 2004
705 0
Reflected virtue
19 February 2004
775 0
The National Guard (again)
17 February 2004
843 13 3D+: John Kerry, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Kerry
3D-: Democrats, Bill Clinton, Clinton
4R+: President Bush, President Bush, administration, Bush
7D=, 8R=
The Gaza pullout
12 February 2004
770 0 1R+: President Bush
1R-: Powell
1R=
Time to take the offensive
9 February 2004
854 61 9D-: Democratic, Democratic, John F. Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, Democrats
6R+: President Bush, the president, Bush, the president, the president, the president
5D=, 5R=
The Caligula Broadcasting System does the sleaze bowl
2 February 2004
771 0
Trouble on Bush's right?
28 January 2004
926 11 1D-: Ted Kennedy
12R+: President Bush, Mike Pence, Pence, Republican, Bush, Reagan, Pence, Pence, Reaganite, Pence, Pence, Pence
10R-: Bush, White House, Congressional Republicans, Bush administration, Republicans, the president, Republicans, George Bush, White House, President Bush
1D=, 7R=
Informed choice and abortion
26 January 2004
755 0
The state of President Bush
21 January 2004
808 7 1D+: Bill Clinton's administration
1D-: Democrats
7R+: President Bush, The president, The president, Bush, President Bush, The president, Bush
5R-: the president, Republican Congress, president, GOP, President Bush
5D=, 5R=
Pickering's recess appointment
20 January 2004
996 25 4D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic
4R+: President Bush, Bush, President Bush, Republican
1R-: Republicans
9D=, 11R=
Paul O'Neill's charge
15 January 2004
837 13 1D+: Clinton administration
1D-: Democrats
12R+: O'Neill, White House, administration, President Bush, O'Neill, Bush, White House, the president, administration, the president, President Bush, administration
16R-: Paul O'Neill, Paul O'Neill, President Bush, Bush, O'Neill, O'Neill, the president, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, administration, Vice President Dick Cheney, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill
Pete Rose's foul ball
12 January 2004
788 42 3D-: Former President Jimmy Carter, Carter, Carter
1R-: Richard Nixon
1D=, 1R=
Lord of the gridiron: the return of the king
8 January 2004
651 0 1R=
Pat Robertson's 'Burning Bush'
7 January 2004
869 53 7D-: Democratic, Howard Dean, Clinton, Howard Dean, Dean, Dean, Democrat
1R-: Dan Quayle
6R=
The choice: Accommodate or defeat evil
5 January 2004
850 33 4R+: President Bush, Reagan, Richard Perle, Bush
8R=
When the media meet the candidates
3 January 2004
925 55 1D+: Clinton
8D-: Clinton administration, George Stephanopoulos, Democrats, Clinton, Leon Panetta, Democratic, Howard Dean, Dean
8R+: President Bush, Bush, Bush, George W. Bush, the president, Bush, Bush, Bush
7D=, 2R=