| Columns | 101 |
| Words | 94975 |
| Normalized Median Partisanship Index | 5.26 |
| Normalized Total Partisanship Index | 7.32 |
| Normalized Combined Partisanship Index | 6.29 |
| Democratic Index | 17.22 |
| Republican Index | 6.00 |
| Positive Index | 33.84 |
| Negative Index | 22.36 |
| Neutral Index | 43.80 |
| Kerry Index | 0.00 |
| Bush Index | -9.11 |
| Type | Number | All References |
|---|---|---|
| Positive Democratic | 460 | Kerry(69), Edwards(44), Democrats(40), Democratic(30), Dean(19), John Kerry(19), Stenholm(15), Democrat(12), Frank(10), John Edwards(9), John Kennedy(7), Hart(7), Clark(6), Democratic Party(6), Kennedy(6), Doyle(6), Pelosi(6), Howard Dean(6), Rendell(5), Clinton(5), McGovern(4), Granholm(4), DLC(4), Bill Clinton(4), Cisneros(4), Turner(3), Teresa Heinz Kerry(3), McCarthy(3), Charles Stenholm(2), Lee Hamilton(2), Democratic Congress(2), Max Cleland(2), Jimmy Carter(2), Joe Biden(2), Wesley K. Clark(2), Ed Rendell(2), John F. Kennedy(2), Barney Frank(2), Trippi(2), Tom Vilsack(2), Truman(2), Cleland(2), FDR(2), Rayburn(2), Panetta(2), Charlie Stenholm(2), Bob Kerrey, President Bill Clinton, Jamie Gorelick, Gorelick, Tim Roemer, Roemer, Al Gore, Richard Riley, Clinton Cabinet, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Spratt, Spratt, Evan Bayh, Diana DeGette, DeGette, Jim Doyle, Peter Hart, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Wesley Clark, Tom Foley, Ben Cardin, Dick Gephardt, Bob Graham, Dukakis, Tsongas, Gephardt, President Lyndon Johnson, Joe Trippi, Democratic National Committee, Gore, JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson, Johnson, Hamilton, Richard Ben-Veniste, Jim Hunt, Progressive Policy Institute, Gary Hart, Paul Simon, Bob Matsui, Matsui, George McGovern, Stephanie Herseth, Herseth, Eugene McCarthy, Dennis Kucinich, Adlai Stevenson, Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, Elizabeth Edwards, Henry Cisneros, Judith Steinberg Dean, Sam Rayburn, Ted Kennedy, Paul M. Butler, Roosevelt, Democratic Leadership Council, Jennifer Granholm, Janet Napolitano, Bill Richardson, Leon Panetta, Clinton White House, Joe Lieberman, John Breaux, Wes Clark, Barbara Mikulski, David Price |
| Negative Democratic | 238 | Kerry(72), Democrats(31), Dean(23), Democratic(18), John Kerry(17), Al Gore(6), Feingold(5), Bill Clinton(4), Howard Dean(4), Jimmy Carter(3), Clark(3), Dukakis(3), Dick Gephardt(2), McNamara(2), John Edwards(2), Edwards(2), John F. Kerry(2), Trippi(2), Walter Mondale(2), Davis(2), Dennis Kucinich(2), George McGovern, Lieberman, Joe Lieberman, vice president Al Gore, Al Sharpton, Graham, Daschle, president, Clinton administration, Pelosi, Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, Gore, Michael S. Dukakis, FDR, Bob Graham, Clinton, Robert McNamara, Democrat, Clinton White House, former president, Russ Feingold, Adlai Stevenson, Rayburn, Lyndon Johnson, Mondale, Carter, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gray Davis, Democratic Party, Michael Dukakis |
| Neutral Democratic | 591 | Kerry(121), Democrats(102), Democratic(81), John Kerry(32), Dean(26), Edwards(25), Howard Dean(11), John Edwards(11), Democrat(10), Clark(10), Kennedy(9), Al Gore(7), Democratic Party(6), John F. Kerry(5), Dukakis(5), DLC(5), Clinton(4), Bill Clinton(4), Gore(4), Alexander(4), Tom Daschle(4), FDR(3), Turner(3), Dick Gephardt(3), Humphrey(3), O'Brien(3), Lieberman(3), Mondale(2), Democratic Leadership Council(2), John Breaux(2), Johnson(2), Gephardt(2), Nancy Pelosi(2), Joe Lieberman(2), Tip O'Neill(2), John F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Roy Neel, Bob Graham, Breaux, Graham, Maurice D. Hinchey, Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Muskie, George McGovern, Tom Eagleton, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, McGovern, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The President, Commander in Chief, Roosevelt, Estes Kefauver, Joe Biden, Edward G. Rendell, Jennifer M. Granholm, Jim Doyle, Jim Turner, President Kennedy, Joe Hoeffel, Democratic Senate, Zell Miller, Bill Bradley, Harold Ickes, Clinton White House, Democratic Congress, Wes Clark, Tom Vilsack, Bill Richardson, Pelosi, Daschle, Wesley Clark, Teresa Heinz Kerry, President Clinton, Dennis Kucinich, Jesse L. Jackson, Congressional Democrats, Lyndon Johnson, Al Sharpton, Al From, From, Lee Hamilton, Trippi, Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House Democrats, Gramm, the Clintons, John Kennedy, Cleland, Feingold, Jimmy Carter, Mike Mansfield, George Mitchell, Larry O'Brien, George Wallace, Harry Reid, President Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jim Wright, Tom Foley, Tony Coelho, Anthony Williams, Senate Democrats |
| Positive Republican | 433 | Bush(81), Republican(38), Republicans(23), President Bush(19), the president(17), Reagan(16), McCain(16), O'Neill(11), Schwarzenegger(9), Leavitt(7), George Bush(7), John McCain(6), Pawlenty(5), Sanford(5), George W. Bush(5), Ronald Reagan(5), GOP(5), Goldwater(4), Kemp(4), Frist(4), Cheney(4), president(4), Eisenhower(4), Lugar(4), White House(3), Dole(3), Olympia Snowe(3), Rice(2), Dwight Eisenhower(2), Tom Kean(2), Republican Congress(2), Warren Rudman(2), Dowd(2), Dick Cheney(2), George Romney(2), Bush administration(2), Dwight D. Eisenhower(2), Mike Leavitt(2), Nixon(2), Rudman(2), Republican Party(2), Karl Rove(2), administration(2), Jack Kemp(2), Reaganesque(2), Rove(2), Arnold Schwarzenegger(2), Snow(2), Margaret Spellings(2), George H.W. Bush(2), Nancy Reagan(2), congressional Republicans, former first lady, Mike Castle, Castle, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Kay Granger, Orrin Hatch, Bob Teeter, Jim Rhodes, Teeter, Bill Milliken, Romney, Ford administration, Paul O'Neill, Republican White House, Vice President, Bob Michel, first lady Laura Bush, Vice President Cheney, Bill Frist, Jim Baker, Vice President George H.W. Bush, Barry Goldwater, William Weld, Bill McInturff, Kean, Don Nickles, The president, Phil Gramm, President Ronald Reagan, Nickles, Richard Nixon, Domenici, Michael Gerson, Karen Hughes, Gerson, Hughes, Alan Simpson, Bob Dole, Slade Gorton, Pete Peterson, Nixon administration, Peterson, Treasury Secretary John Snow, Ken Mehlman, Mica, Andrew Card, John Ashcroft, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, Pat Roberts, Thad Cochran, Senate Republicans, Matthew Dowd, Dan Lungren, George Shultz, Tom Campbell, Campbell, Fred Upton, Upton, Jim Kolbe, Hoekstra, Condoleezza Rice, Mitch McConnell, Alberto Gonzales, Carlos Gutierrez, Tim Pawlenty, Susan Collins, Arlen Specter, Tom Cole, Cole, Tommy Thompson, Richard Lugar, Lincoln Chafee |
| Negative Republican | 352 | Bush(126), the president(23), Republicans(22), Republican(20), President Bush(16), administration(15), White House(11), Rumsfeld(10), George Bush(6), Bush administration(6), The president(5), McCain(5), Cheney(5), Vice President Cheney(4), Snow(4), Alexander(4), GOP(4), George W. Bush(4), Don Rumsfeld(3), Bush White House(3), Ronald Reagan(2), House Republican(2), Donald Rumsfeld(2), Rice(2), Reagan(2), John McCain(2), Weld(2), congressional Republicans(2), O'Neill, Larry Lindsey, Gary Bauer, Steve Forbes, Domenici, Condoleezza Rice, Joe McCarthy, Specter, Jim Nussle, Speaker Dennis Hastert, Tom DeLay, Majority Leader Bill Frist, Toomey, Nixon White House, Dick Cheney, Pat Toomey, J. Dennis Hastert, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Nixon, Nixonian, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Rodney Alexander, John Ashcroft, Republican Congress, Ford, Porter Goss, vice president, Bob Dole, Republican Party, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Karl Rove, Hastert, Duncan Hunter, Hunter, Republican-controlled Congress, president, Bernard Kerik, Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld, Treasury Secretary John Snow, McCarthy |
| Neutral Republican | 565 | Bush(130), Republicans(69), Republican(60), the president(39), President Bush(38), White House(16), George Bush(14), administration(10), Reagan(10), Mica(9), GOP(7), Hastert(6), Rice(6), Bush administration(5), McCain(4), House Republican(4), Vice President Cheney(4), Republican president(4), Specter(4), O'Neill(4), John McCain(3), House Republicans(3), Dick Cheney(3), Condoleezza Rice(3), Nixon(3), president(3), Bill Frist(2), Bush White House(2), Weld(2), Cheney(2), George W. Bush(2), Paul O'Neill(2), Ronald Reagan(2), Quinn(2), Mark Sanford(2), Arlen Specter(2), Republican Party(2), Senate Republicans(2), Karl Rove(2), Marilyn Quayle(2), John Mica(2), Dennis Hastert(2), vice president(2), Hunter(2), Sensenbrenner(2), House Speaker Dennis Hastert(2), Tom DeLay(2), Patrick Buchanan, William Weld, Pete Domenici, Mr. President, Dick Lugar, Tom Ridge, John Engler, Tommy G. Thompson, Jack Quinn, Doug Bereuter, Doug Ose, George Pataki, Ose, Frist, Republican Congress, Barry Goldwater, Senate Republican, Tom Kean, Amo Houghton, Alexander, Jeffords, The president, George Romney, Barbara Bush, elder George Bush, first lady , Quayle, the Quayles, Rudy Giuliani, President Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Jerry Ford, George Voinovich, Andrew Card, Tommy Thompson, Porter Goss, Republican House, Katherine Harris, Ashcroft, Randy Neugebauer, Neugebauer, John Snow, Pete Hoekstra, Hoekstra, Bill Casey, John Mitchell, Jim Sensenbrenner, Thomas E. Petri, Duncan Hunter, James Sensenbrenner, Ron Paul, Dwight Eisenhower, Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, Gingrich, Bob Livingston, Trent Lott, Mike Johanns, Carlos Gutierrez, Colin Powell, Alberto Gonzales, Rumsfeld |
| Title/ Date |
words | Norm PI |
Partisan References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hits and Misses In '04 30 December 2004 |
907 | 18 | 2D+: Kerry, Democratic 6D-: Howard Dean, John Kerry, Kerry, Michael Dukakis, Kerry, Kerry 5R+: the president, Bush, president, GOP, Republicans 5R-: congressional Republicans, Bush, Bush, Bush, Donald Rumsfeld 3D=, 6R= |
| Take Them Out to the Ballgame 22 December 2004 |
907 | 0 | 4D=, 5R= |
| A Time for Diplomacy 19 December 2004 |
894 | 8 | 1D+: John Kerry 6R+: Richard Lugar, Republican, Lugar, Lugar, Lugar, Lugar 3R-: Bush, President Bush, Bush 9R= |
| Tight Little Cabinet 15 December 2004 |
1007 | 11 | 1D-: Bill Clinton 9R+: Margaret Spellings, White House, Bush, Republican Party, Mike Leavitt, Leavitt, Tommy Thompson, Leavitt, Republican 15R-: Bernard Kerik, the president, Bush, administration, Republican, Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld, Treasury Secretary John Snow, Rumsfeld, the president, Rumsfeld, Snow, Snow, the president, Snow, Snow 15R= |
| The Polarization Express 12 December 2004 |
986 | 2 | 4D+: Democrats, Democratic, David Price, Democrats 1D-: Democrats 6R+: Republican, Arlen Specter, Republican, Tom Cole, Republicans, Cole 1R-: Republican 7D=, 12R= |
| Minnesota's Health Care Gamble 9 December 2004 |
866 | 54 | 1D+: Clinton 8R+: Tim Pawlenty, Pawlenty, Republican, Pawlenty, President Bush, Pawlenty, Pawlenty, Pawlenty 2D= |
| A National Pledge of Party Allegiance 5 December 2004 |
1011 | 8 | 5D+: Democrats, John Kerry, Kerry, Democratic, Democrats 1D-: Democrats 11R+: Republicans, President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Margaret Spellings, Alberto Gonzales, Carlos Gutierrez, Bush, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Bush 1R-: Bush 11D=, 16R= |
| A Second Term of Surprises? 30 November 2004 |
902 | 7 | 2R-: administration, president 1D=, 26R= |
| The Cost Of Being Blue 28 November 2004 |
872 | 26 | 3D+: Democratic, John Kerry, Barbara Mikulski 4R+: George W. Bush, Republican, George Romney, Jack Kemp 4R-: Republican-controlled Congress, the president, Republican, White House 4R= |
| Tension in the Republican Ranks 25 November 2004 |
1062 | 24 | 1D+: Democrats 2R+: White House, Hoekstra 12R-: Republican, Republican, Republicans, Hastert, Republicans, Republicans, Duncan Hunter, Republicans, Don Rumsfeld, Hunter, Bush, Republican 1D=, 31R= |
| A Blue Dog Muzzled 21 November 2004 |
1067 | 36 | 18D+: Charlie Stenholm, Stenholm, Stenholm, Stenholm, Stenholm, Democrat, Stenholm, Stenholm, Charlie Stenholm, Stenholm, Stenholm, Stenholm, Stenholm, Democrats, Stenholm, Stenholm, Stenholm, Stenholm 1D-: John Kerry 9R+: President Bush, the president, Bush, Republican, Fred Upton, Upton, Republican, Jim Kolbe, Republican 12R-: Republican, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Bush, Vice President Cheney, Karl Rove, GOP, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Republican 11D=, 11R= |
| Germinator 18 November 2004 |
974 | 32 | 7D+: Leon Panetta, Democratic, Clinton White House, Panetta, Democrat, John Breaux, Panetta 5D-: Democratic, Gray Davis, Democratic, Davis, Davis 17R+: Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican, Republican, Olympia Snowe, Schwarzenegger, George Shultz, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Tom Campbell, Republican, Campbell, Schwarzenegger 1R-: President Bush 3D=, 2R= |
| 'Darkness'? Hardly. 14 November 2004 |
980 | 39 | 2D+: Democratic, Kerry 16R+: George W. Bush, Andrew Card, John Ashcroft, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, Republicans, Pat Roberts, Thad Cochran, Senate Republicans, Republicans, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush 1R-: Bush 3D=, 7R= |
| No Vote Necessary 11 November 2004 |
896 | 6 | 1R+: Mica 1D=, 14R= |
| The Democrats and the Mule Rule 7 November 2004 |
1038 | 4 | 26D+: Sam Rayburn, Democratic, Rayburn, John F. Kennedy, Democrats, Bill Clinton, Democratic Party, Paul M. Butler, Democratic, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Democrats, Democratic Leadership Council, Clinton, DLC, Clinton, Democrat, Democratic Party, Democratic, Ed Rendell, Jennifer Granholm, Janet Napolitano, Tom Vilsack, Bill Richardson, Rayburn 21D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Adlai Stevenson, Democrats, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Democrats, Rayburn, Lyndon Johnson, Mondale, Carter, John Kerry, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrats, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Democrats, Al Gore, Kerry 10R+: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Republican, Eisenhower, Reagan, Bush, Republican 1D=, 1R= |
| An Old-Fashioned Win 4 November 2004 |
1012 | 60 | 2D+: Kerry, Democrats 6D-: Democratic, Kerry, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Kerry 22R+: the president, Republican, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Republican, Bush, Karl Rove, Republican, GOP, Bush, Rove, Ken Mehlman, the president, Bush, Rove, Bush, Republican, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush 1R-: the president 3D=, 6R= |
| What Democracy Needs: Real Races 31 October 2004 |
870 | 0 | 4D=, 4R= |
| A Voter Portrait Waiting to Be Drawn 28 October 2004 |
885 | 27 | 2D+: John Kerry, Democratic 3D-: Democrats, Al Gore, Kerry 6R+: George Bush, Republicans, Bush, Bush, president, GOP 2R-: President Bush, Republican Party 2D=, 2R= |
| A Less Than Ideal Choice 24 October 2004 |
889 | 8 | 1D+: Bill Clinton 1D-: Walter Mondale 1R+: Ronald Reagan 2R-: Bob Dole, Bush 3D=, 3R= |
| Electoral 'Fixes' 21 October 2004 |
889 | 0 | 5D=, 5R= |
| Fiscal Ruin on the Horizon 17 October 2004 |
858 | 69 | 1D-: John F. Kerry 4R+: Republicans, Pete Peterson, Nixon administration, Peterson 1R-: President Bush |
| For Two Debaters, It's Time to Level 13 October 2004 |
879 | 10 | 1D+: John Kerry 3D-: Jimmy Carter, Kerry, Kerry 2R+: George Bush, Bush 3R-: the president, Bush, Bush 2D=, 4R= |
| No Accountability 10 October 2004 |
890 | 21 | 1D+: Joe Biden 4D-: John Kerry, John Edwards, Kerry, Democrats 3R+: President Bush, the president, John McCain 13R-: Bush, Vice President Cheney, administration, the president, Bush, Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Porter Goss, Bush, Cheney, Republicans, the president, vice president 2D=, 2R= |
| Let the Gippers Win One 7 October 2004 |
901 | 9 | 1D-: former president 1R+: George W. Bush 9D=, 13R= |
| Bush's Real Opponent 2 October 2004 |
978 | 25 | 4D+: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry 4D-: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry 2R+: Republican, Bush 13R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, the president, White House, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush 7D=, 8R= |
| Open Up the Debates 30 September 2004 |
886 | 0 | 6D=, 6R= |
| The Media, Losing Their Way 26 September 2004 |
876 | 42 | 1D+: John Kerry 1D-: Kerry 2R+: President Bush, George Bush |
| Help at Home 23 September 2004 |
837 | 9 | 6D+: Henry Cisneros, Democrat, Cisneros, Cisneros, Cisneros, Cisneros 7R+: Jack Kemp, Republican, Kemp, Kemp, Kemp, President Bush, Kemp |
| Questions We'll Wish We'd Asked 19 September 2004 |
886 | 1 | 3D-: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry 4R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush 4D=, 5R= |
| Quiet Calls for Change 16 September 2004 |
933 | 48 | 8D+: Max Cleland, John Kerry, Cleland, Democrats, John Kerry, Cleland, John Kerry, John Kerry 2R+: Republican, George W. Bush 3R-: President Bush, George Bush, George Bush 6D=, 1R= |
| Middle East Reality 12 September 2004 |
872 | 0 | 5D-: John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry 7R-: President Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush |
| The Price Of Labor's Decline 9 September 2004 |
896 | 8 | 1D-: Democratic 6D=, 7R= |
| A Speech That Delivered the Goods 5 September 2004 |
933 | 44 | 5D-: John Kerry, Democratic, John Kerry, Kerry, Democrats 12R+: Karl Rove, President Bush, Bush, Michael Gerson, Karen Hughes, Bush, Bush, the president, Bush, Bush, Gerson, Hughes 4R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush 3D=, 7R= |
| The McCain Phenomenon 31 August 2004 |
1077 | 28 | 5D+: Adlai Stevenson, Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, Kerry, Kerry 1D-: Kerry 26R+: McCain, George Bush, John McCain, McCain, Bush, McCain, Richard Nixon, Nixon, George Bush, president, McCain, Ronald Reagan, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, Bush, Bush, McCain, John McCain 4R-: Ford, Bush, Bush, Bush 5D=, 14R= |
| Policing Political Ads 29 August 2004 |
1011 | 23 | 6D+: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry 6D-: Kerry, Democrats, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry, Clinton White House 2R+: Republican Party, GOP 12R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Bush, Bush, the president, Reagan, Bush administration 5D=, 6R= |
| Swift Boats And Old Wounds 24 August 2004 |
919 | 6 | 1D+: Kerry 1R+: John McCain 1R-: President Bush 10D=, 8R= |
| Politics on Beaver Island 22 August 2004 |
946 | 14 | 6D+: John Kerry, Democrats, Truman, Democrats, Dennis Kucinich, Kerry 1D-: Al Gore 5R+: Bush, Bush, Republicans, Bush, Cheney 2R-: Bush, Bush 6D=, 3R= |
| Election Extension 19 August 2004 |
789 | 54 | 4D+: Tom Vilsack, Democrat, Stephanie Herseth, Herseth 2D=, 2R= |
| Bush's Two Albatrosses 15 August 2004 |
929 | 78 | 2D+: Democrats, Democrats 13R-: Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Republican Congress, Bush, Bush, Bush, The president, Bush 1D=, 3R= |
| Turncoat Politics 12 August 2004 |
973 | 13 | 6D+: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Bob Matsui, Matsui, Democrats 3D-: Democrats, Democratic, Democrats 4R+: Republican, Phil Gramm, President Ronald Reagan, Republican 6R-: Rodney Alexander, Republican, Alexander, Alexander, Alexander, Alexander 13D=, 8R= |
| Heeding the 9/11 Panel 8 August 2004 |
942 | 25 | 9D+: Democratic, Gary Hart, Hart, Hart, Hart, Hart, Hart, Hart, Hart 2D-: Kerry, Democrat 6R+: Bush, Warren Rudman, Rudman, Republican, The president, Rudman 5R-: The president, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, administration, the president, Rumsfeld 4D=, 4R= |
| Punting on First Down 5 August 2004 |
1008 | 49 | 18D-: John Kerry, Kerry, John Edwards, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democratic, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, Bill Clinton, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry 15D=, 5R= |
| A Speech Without Wings 1 August 2004 |
934 | 24 | 5D+: Kerry, John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Kerry, Kerry 1R+: Dick Cheney 10D=, 3R= |
| Democrats' Shaky Convergence 29 July 2004 |
1042 | 9 | 11D+: Kerry, Edwards, DLC, Progressive Policy Institute, Kerry, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Democratic, DLC, DLC 5D-: Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, Bob Graham, Clinton, Al Gore 2R+: Bush, Republicans 35D=, 1R= |
| Can Anyone Get Past the Partisanship? 27 July 2004 |
935 | 24 | 8D+: Democratic, Lee Hamilton, Hamilton, Democratic, Richard Ben-Veniste, Democratic, Democrats, John Kennedy 3R+: Republican, Tom Kean, Kean 2R-: Bush White House, Republican 14D=, 6R= |
| What Kerry Learned From Dukakis 25 July 2004 |
1056 | 15 | 13D+: John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Kennedy, Kennedy, Johnson, Democratic, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democrat, Kerry 6D-: Michael S. Dukakis, Democrats, Kerry, Dukakis, Dukakis, Dukakis 6R+: Vice President George H.W. Bush, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisenhower, Eisenhower, Eisenhower, Nixon 7R-: Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Nixon, Bush, Nixonian, Republican, George Bush, the president 22D=, 3R= |
| Nader's GOP Raiders 22 July 2004 |
998 | 28 | 1D+: Gore 13D-: Democrats, Al Gore, Democratic, Democrats, Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, Democratic, John Kerry, Gore, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry 1R+: Bush 7R-: GOP, Republican, President Bush, Republicans, GOP, Republicans, Republicans 3D=, 7R= |
| A Deal Not Yet Sealed 18 July 2004 |
1009 | 30 | 14D+: Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, Ed Rendell, Democratic National Committee, Kerry, Democratic 3D-: Kerry, John Kerry, John Kerry 3R-: Cheney, Bush, administration 18D=, 10R= |
| Our Broken Health Care System 15 July 2004 |
852 | 81 | 6R+: Bill Frist, Republican, Frist, Frist, Frist, Frist 1D= |
| What Matters To Voters 11 July 2004 |
867 | 5 | 5D+: Edwards, John Kerry, Kerry, President Lyndon Johnson, Clinton 2D-: Kerry, Democrats 4R+: President Bush, first lady Laura Bush, President Bush, Vice President Cheney 1R-: Republicans 6D= |
| Kerry's Political Criteria 7 July 2004 |
1055 | 42 | 23D+: Edwards, Kerry, Kerry, Dick Gephardt, Bob Graham, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Kennedy, Dukakis, Tsongas, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, Gephardt, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards 2D-: Kerry, Kerry 3R+: Republicans, Cheney, Cheney 3R-: Cheney, Republican, Bush 16D=, 6R= |
| A Better Way to Legislate 4 July 2004 |
991 | 53 | 15D+: Democrats, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democrats, Democrat, Pelosi, Tom Foley, Pelosi, Pelosi, Democratic, Pelosi, Pelosi, Democrats, Democratic, Ben Cardin, Pelosi 2D-: Pelosi, Democrats 3R+: Republicans, Bob Michel, Republicans 6R-: Republicans, J. Dennis Hastert, Republican, Republicans, White House, Republicans 4D=, 2R= |
| United They Fall? 1 July 2004 |
903 | 35 | 2R+: Bush, Bush 8R-: George Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld 7R= |
| The Chinese Divide 27 June 2004 |
847 | 0 | |
| Writing to the Edge 24 June 2004 |
843 | 0 | |
| Democracy's Vital Voices 20 June 2004 |
934 | 44 | 2D+: Peter Hart, Democratic 1D-: Kerry 11R+: Bob Teeter, George Romney, Jim Rhodes, Teeter, Romney, Bill Milliken, George H.W. Bush, Ford administration, Dick Cheney, Cheney, Vice President 2R-: Bush, Nixon White House |
| Growth vs. History 17 June 2004 |
869 | 0 | |
| Ward Politics, Shanghai Style 13 June 2004 |
875 | 100 | 1D+: Jim Doyle |
| The Great Persuader 7 June 2004 |
872 | 41 | 10R+: Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan 1R-: Reagan 2D=, 8R= |
| A Bipartisan Push on Stem Cell Studies 3 June 2004 |
977 | 41 | 4D+: Democrats, Democrat, Diana DeGette, DeGette 22R+: congressional Republicans, Nancy Reagan, former first lady, Republicans, Reagan, Republicans, Republicans, Republican, Mike Castle, the president, Bush, White House, the president, the president, Castle, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Nancy Reagan, Kay Granger, the president, Orrin Hatch, Republican, Reagan 2R-: President Bush, the president 5R= |
| Budget Chicanery 30 May 2004 |
971 | 65 | 8D+: John Spratt, Democrat, Charles Stenholm, Democrat, Spratt, Stenholm, Democrats, Democrats 4R+: Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Lincoln Chafee, John McCain 16R-: Bush White House, The president, President Bush, The president, Jim Nussle, the president, Speaker Dennis Hastert, Tom DeLay, administration, Bush, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, House Republican, Majority Leader Bill Frist, Republicans 1D=, 3R= |
| A Fitting, if Flawed, Tribute 27 May 2004 |
854 | 17 | 2D+: Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman 2R+: Warren Rudman, Dwight Eisenhower |
| Bipartisan Unity -- and Baseball 23 May 2004 |
1047 | 9 | 6D+: Democrats, Kerry, Joe Biden, FDR, John Kennedy, Kerry 5D-: John Kerry, Democratic Party, Democrats, Democrats, Al Gore 4R-: President Bush, Bush, the president, Bush 17D=, 16R= |
| What McCain-Feingold Didn't Fix 20 May 2004 |
974 | 17 | 10D-: Feingold, Russ Feingold, John Kerry, Feingold, Feingold, Democrats, Dean, Kerry, Feingold, Feingold 1R+: Mitch McConnell 8R-: McCain, John McCain, George Bush, McCain, McCain, Bush, McCain, McCain 9D=, 5R= |
| Gambling On Strength 16 May 2004 |
969 | 10 | 5D+: Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Howard Dean, Bill Clinton 6D-: Democratic, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry 6R+: President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, George Bush 3R-: Bush, Bush, Bush 9D=, 6R= |
| Still Separate And Unequal 13 May 2004 |
913 | 53 | 6D+: John Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Richard Riley, Clinton Cabinet, John Edwards 1D-: John Kerry 1R+: President Bush 1R-: Bush White House 1D= |
| McNamara Moment 9 May 2004 |
955 | 29 | 3D-: McNamara, McNamara, Robert McNamara 1R+: administration 11R-: Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, President Bush, White House, Bush, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, administration 4R= |
| Polar Politics 6 May 2004 |
1092 | 2 | 1D+: Democrats 3R+: Republicans, GOP, Dan Lungren 3R-: Pat Toomey, Specter, Toomey 17D=, 29R= |
| A Wistful Farewell to NPR's Minimalist 2 May 2004 |
911 | 26 | 3D+: Turner, Turner, Turner 1R+: Bush administration 5D= |
| The Fog of War in the Battleground States 29 April 2004 |
1058 | 44 | 18D+: Al Gore, Rendell, Kerry, Granholm, Doyle, Doyle, Doyle, Granholm, Democratic, Rendell, Granholm, Granholm, Rendell, Doyle, Doyle, Rendell, Rendell, Doyle 3R+: Republican, the president, the president 6R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, John Ashcroft, Bush, Bush 14D=, 11R= |
| Opportunism Knocks 25 April 2004 |
1022 | 58 | 11D-: Democratic, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry 10R+: Matthew Dowd, Bush, President Bush, Dowd, Bush, Bush, Dowd, Bush, Bush, Bush 8D=, 7R= |
| Some Good News In an Ocean of Bad 22 April 2004 |
850 | 100 | 7R+: Mike Leavitt, Leavitt, Leavitt, Leavitt, Bush administration, Leavitt, Leavitt |
| Save the Tax Cuts for the Middle Class 18 April 2004 |
882 | 6 | 2D+: Democratic, John Kerry 10R+: President Bush, Republican Congress, President Bush, Treasury Secretary John Snow, President Bush, Bush, Snow, the president, Snow, administration 6R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, Bush, White House, Bush 2R= |
| Idealism in Search of a Plan 15 April 2004 |
926 | 39 | 1D+: John Kennedy 3R+: George Bush, Bush, Bush 9R-: Bush, White House, the president, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush 1D=, 4R= |
| Incurious Bush 11 April 2004 |
978 | 35 | 7D+: Jamie Gorelick, Democratic, Gorelick, Tim Roemer, Roemer, John Kennedy, Kennedy 1D-: Clinton administration 4R+: Rice, Bush, Republican, Slade Gorton 9R-: Bush, administration, Bush administration, Bush, Rice, the president, Bush, White House, Bush 14R= |
| Time to Abandon Budget Band-Aids 8 April 2004 |
931 | 58 | 7D+: Democratic Congress, Democratic Congress, President Bill Clinton, Clinton, Democrats, Democrats, Charles Stenholm 2R+: President Bush, Republican Congress 8R-: White House, House Republican, GOP, Republicans, Republican, Republicans, White House, Republican 1D=, 6R= |
| A Sterling Commission 4 April 2004 |
860 | 22 | 4D+: Lee Hamilton, Democratic, Bob Kerrey, Democrat 1D-: Bill Clinton 2R+: Tom Kean, Republican 1R-: Rumsfeld 1D=, 3R= |
| Bush's Surrender 1 April 2004 |
934 | 57 | 3R+: Bush, Rice, Dwight Eisenhower 15R-: Bush, President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Bush, Bush, the president, White House, Rice, Bush, Bush, Vice President Cheney, the president, Joe McCarthy, McCarthy, Bush 3R= |
| A War's Legacy Of Pain 21 March 2004 |
834 | 77 | 2D-: Democratic, John Kerry 5R+: Bob Dole, Dole, Dole, Republican, Dole 1R-: administration |
| One Bold Thinker Among the Democrats 14 March 2004 |
945 | 55 | 14D+: Barney Frank, Frank, Frank, Frank, Frank, Frank, Kerry, Democrats, Frank, Frank, Frank, Frank, Frank, Barney Frank 2R+: Republicans, Bush 6D=, 2R= |
| Would FDR Run Those 9/11 Ads? 11 March 2004 |
904 | 15 | 1D-: FDR 4R+: the president, president, Bush, President Bush 1R-: Bush 11D=, 8R= |
| Bitter Budget Medicine 7 March 2004 |
892 | 12 | 4R+: Don Nickles, Nickles, Domenici, Alan Simpson 7R-: George W. Bush, congressional Republicans, White House, Bush, Bush, Domenici, Bush 3D=, 9R= |
| Oscars For the Primary Players 4 March 2004 |
909 | 65 | 18D+: John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Judith Steinberg Dean, Ted Kennedy, Kerry, Max Cleland, John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, Wes Clark, Kerry, Dean 1R+: Bush 5D=, 4R= |
| Serious Times, Serious Choice 29 February 2004 |
846 | 6 | 2D+: Edwards, Kerry 4R+: President Bush, the president, Bush, Bush 7D=, 4R= |
| How Nader Could Help Bush 26 February 2004 |
1029 | 18 | 1D+: Kerry 2D-: Democratic, Kerry 10R+: Bush, Republican, William Weld, Bush, Republican, Bill McInturff, Republican, Bush, Bush, Bush 3R-: Republican, Weld, Weld 12D=, 13R= |
| Dean: A Milestone, Not a Millstone 22 February 2004 |
1059 | 42 | 28D+: Dean, Howard Dean, Democratic Party, Dean, Democratic, Dean, George McGovern, Eugene McCarthy, Democrats, Bill Clinton, McGovern, McGovern, McCarthy, Dean, McCarthy, McGovern, Dean, Democrats, Dean, Dean, Democrats, Kerry, Edwards, Dean, McGovern, McCarthy, Dean, Democratic Party 4D-: Dean, Dean, Dean, president 8R+: Barry Goldwater, Republican, Ronald Reagan, Goldwater, Goldwater, Goldwater, the president, Goldwater 1R-: Bush 5D=, 3R= |
| The Real World And the Senate 19 February 2004 |
1011 | 8 | 7D+: Jimmy Carter, John Kennedy, Democrats, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry 3D-: Democratic, Edwards, Kerry 1R+: Republicans 25D=, 7R= |
| A Hill Of Beans 15 February 2004 |
877 | 0 | 1D+: Paul Simon 1D-: Daschle 5D=, 6R= |
| Time to Watch Edwards 12 February 2004 |
1048 | 35 | 17D+: John Edwards, John Kerry, Kerry, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Democrats, Jim Hunt, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Kerry, John Edwards 1D-: Graham 4R+: Reagan, Bush, Jim Baker, Bush 2R-: Republican, Ronald Reagan 17D=, 3R= |
| In GOP Country, Job Fears 8 February 2004 |
967 | 19 | 2D+: John Edwards, Edwards 9R+: Bush, Sanford, Sanford, Sanford, Sanford, Bush, the president, Bush, Sanford 1R-: Republican 5D=, 7R= |
| The Democrats Sharpen the Focus 5 February 2004 |
1080 | 13 | 15D+: Democrats, Democratic, John Kerry, Kerry, John Edwards, Wesley K. Clark, Democratic, FDR, JFK, Edwards, Clark, Clark, Edwards, Kerry, Democrats 8D-: Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt, Howard Dean, vice president Al Gore, Dean, Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton, Kerry 1R+: Republican 1R-: Bush administration 26D=, 3R= |
| When the Web Is Not Enough 1 February 2004 |
1001 | 15 | 5D+: John Kerry, Joe Trippi, Trippi, Dean, Trippi 10D-: Howard Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Trippi, Dean, Trippi, Dean 1R+: Reagan 20D=, 2R= |
| Awaiting Answers On Iraq 29 January 2004 |
939 | 33 | 4D+: Kerry, Howard Dean, Kerry, Kerry 4D-: John F. Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry 1R+: Bush 10R-: President Bush, The president, the president, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, President Bush, the president, Bush 2D=, 2R= |
| Finding Concord in New Hampshire 25 January 2004 |
1013 | 32 | 11D+: Democrats, Dean, Edwards, John Edwards, Dean, Dean, Wesley Clark, Democratic Party, Democrat, Democratic, Democrats 5D-: Lieberman, Kerry, Edwards, Dean, Clark 2R+: Bush, Republicans 11R-: Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Gary Bauer, Steve Forbes, Bush, John McCain, Bush, Bush, the president 9D=, 7R= |
| Two Visions of America 22 January 2004 |
888 | 1 | 3D+: Democratic, Democrats, Edwards 5R+: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush 1R-: Bush 8D=, 5R= |
| Four-Star Staying Power? 20 January 2004 |
1030 | 5 | 6D+: Wesley K. Clark, Clark, Clark, Democratic Party, Clark, Clark 6D-: Clark, Democrats, Dean, Dean, Clark, George McGovern 6R+: John McCain, McCain, Reaganesque, Bush, Reaganesque, Reagan 3R-: George W. Bush, Republican, George Bush 17D=, 6R= |
| A Straight Shooter's Failure to Be Heard 18 January 2004 |
1017 | 3 | 2D+: Democratic, Evan Bayh 16R+: Paul O'Neill, Republican White House, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, President Bush, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill, Republican, Olympia Snowe, O'Neill, O'Neill, O'Neill 12R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Vice President Cheney, Cheney, O'Neill, Bush, Bush, Larry Lindsey, Bush, the president, Bush, Bush 13R= |
| Required Reading On Dean 14 January 2004 |
884 | 9 | 3D+: Dean, Howard Dean, Howard Dean 3D-: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Dean 2R-: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush 7D=, 2R= |
| The Politics Of 'Holy Moly' In Iowa 11 January 2004 |
907 | 44 | 10D+: Teresa Heinz Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Howard Dean, Dean, Teresa Heinz Kerry 2D-: Dick Gephardt, Kerry 6D= |
| Dean: Dominator or Detonator? 7 January 2004 |
898 | 24 | 4D+: Dean, John Kennedy, Dean, Dean 9D-: Democrats, Dean, Democratic, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean 7D=, 1R= |
| Missing Mary McGrory 4 January 2004 |
878 | 17 | 1R-: Republicans 2D=, 2R= |