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David S. Broder
Washington Post

David S. Broder Washington Post page
Jonathan Chait The New Republic article, May 2002


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



Partisan References

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 591Kerry(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 565Bush(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



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
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=