lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Peggy Noonan
WSJ OpinionJournal

Wall Street Journal page
Jonathan Chait The New Republic article, March 2002


Columns 42
Words 75731
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 26.26
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 38.04
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 32.15
Democratic Index -25.67
Republican Index 54.37
Positive Index 40.16
Negative Index 24.52
Neutral Index 35.32
Kerry Index -36.42
Bush Index 40.18



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 101 Kerry(14), JFK(10), Democrats(9), Edwards(9), FDR(7), John Kerry(6), Dean(5), Democratic(5), Clinton(3), Kennedy(3), Bill Clinton(2), Gephardt(2), Democrat(2), president(2), John Kennedy(2), Hillary Clinton, Teddy Kennedy, Howard Dean, Hillary, Harry Truman, Sam Ervin, McGovern, Truman, Kennedys, Tom Daschle, Byron Dorgan, Reed, John F. Kennedy, Dick Gephardt, John Edwards, Heinz, Teresa Heinz, Barack Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Negative Democratic 255 Kerry(67), Dean(23), Clinton(22), Democrats(18), Clark(16), John Kerry(12), Democratic Party(8), Democratic(8), Bill Clinton(7), Jimmy Carter(5), Howard Dean(5), Kennedy(5), Hillary(5), Al Gore(3), Democrat(3), Bob Shrum(3), Wesley Clark(3), Teddy Kennedy(3), John Edwards(2), Edwards(2), Clintonian(2), Carter(2), Wes Clark(2), Ted Kennedy(2), Michael Dukakis(2), Clark Clifford(2), Hamilton Jordan, President Clinton, Joe Biden, Sandy Berger, Albright, president, Clinton administration, Edward Kennedy, Gary Hart, Robert Torricelli, Jim McGreevey, Hart, Pat Brown, Shrum, Jesse Jackson, Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschle, George Soros, Chris Heinz, Paul Begala, JFK, Cyrus Vance, Harry Reid
Neutral Democratic 244Kerry(49), Democratic(24), Democrats(22), Dean(15), JFK(12), Clinton(11), John Kerry(10), Democratic Party(10), Edwards(9), Clark(7), Howard Dean(7), John Edwards(5), Democrat(5), Bill Clinton(4), Teresa Heinz Kerry(3), Kennedy(3), Gephardt(3), Hillary Clinton(3), Wesley Clark(2), FDR(2), Hillary(2), Terry McAuliffe(2), Deanian, LBJ, John F. Kennedy, President Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Hart, Teddy, John Kennedy, Michael Dukakis, George McGovern, White House, Teresa Heinz, Madeleine Albright, Albright, President Clinton, McGovern, Mr. President, Jimmy Carter, The Carters, The Clintons, Ted Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Heinz, Dick Gephardt, Tom Vilsack, Dianne Feinstein, Clintonian, Heinz Kerry, Barack Obama, Harry Hopkins, Hopkins, Joe Lieberman, Walter Mondale, Democratic National Committee
Positive Republican 397 Bush(76), Reagan(44), Ronald Reagan(35), the president(31), Republicans(16), President Bush(14), White House(12), George W. Bush(12), Republican(11), the Reagans(10), administration(7), Rice(5), The president(4), Condi Rice(4), Gerson(4), president(4), Bush administration(4), Eisenhower(3), President Reagan(3), Mr. President(3), Dutch(3), Republican Party(3), Arlen Specter(3), John McCain(2), McCain(2), Rush Limbaugh(2), Laura Bush(2), Reaganism(2), Ed Meese(2), Richard Perle(2), George Shultz(2), William Clark(2), Haig(2), George Bush(2), Cheney(2), The Reagans(2), Porter Goss(2), Dick Cheney(2), Nixon(2), Barbara Bush(2), Orin Hatch, Ike, Marty Anderson, Ken Duberstein, Michael Reagan, Karl Rove, Republicanism, Schultz, Anderson, Clark, Noonan, Marlin Fitzwater, Reagan's White House, Kemp, Meese, Laxalt, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ann Dore McLaughlin, Dole, Richard Nixon, Marilyn Quayle, Lee Atwater, Pete Domenici, Jim Baker, Mike Deaver, Vice President Cheney, GOP, president of the United States, Condoleezza Rice, PEGGY NOONAN, RWR, Bob Dole, Bushian, Specter, Al Haig, Republican Senate, George H.W. Bush, vice president, Kay Baily Hutchison, George Allen, Bill Frist, Rudy Giuliani, Chuck Hagel, Bill Owens, George Pataki, Mitt Romney, Tommy Thompson, Colin Powell, Hutchison, Michael Gerson, Rick Santorum, Reaganesque
Negative Republican 49 Bush(16), President Bush(4), Republicans(3), The president(3), Richard Nixon(3), Republican(3), George Bush(2), George W. Bush(2), Republican Party, Bob Dole, John McCain, Bush White House, GOP, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, White House, Haig, George Herbert Walker Bush, Specter, Nixon, the Clintons
Neutral Republican 194Bush(51), the president(20), Republicans(14), Reagan(12), Republican(9), The president(7), George W. Bush(7), President Bush(7), George Bush(6), White House(5), administration(4), Ronald Reagan(4), Nixon(4), Republican party(2), Colin Powell(2), President George W. Bush(2), George Shultz(2), Republican Party(2), Specter(2), Richard Nixon(2), Donald Rumsfeld, Ford, The Bushes, Dick Darman, Richard Allen, William Clark, Jim Miller, Al Haig, Dole, Tricia Nixon Cox, Nancy Reagan, Shultz, Ed Meese, Vice President Bush, Dan Quayle, Jim Baker, President Reagan, Bush administration, John Heinz, Reagan White House, GOP, president, Bush cabinet, Bushian, Colin, Rice, Powell, Jeb Bush, Charles Colson, G. Gordon Liddy



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
Disturbances in the Earth
30 December 2004
1038 100 4R+: administration, the president, Ronald Reagan, Reaganesque
A Child's Christmas
23 December 2004
988 0
It's Policy, Not Poetry
16 December 2004
1783 64 2D+: Clinton, Bill Clinton
9D-: Democrats, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
23R+: the president, Michael Gerson, George W. Bush, Gerson, President Bush, the president, Gerson, the president, Gerson, the president, Gerson, the president, the president, White House, President Reagan, the president, the president, the president, Republicans, Republicans, Reagan, Reaganism, Republicans
9D=
Where Are They Now?
9 December 2004
2416 46 1D+: Democrat
16D-: Clinton, Clinton, Democratic Party, Democratic Party, Democrats, John Kerry, Bill Clinton, Harry Reid, Hillary, Democratic Party, Kerry, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, John Kerry
14R+: Bush, Kay Baily Hutchison, Republican, George Allen, Bill Frist, Rudy Giuliani, Chuck Hagel, John McCain, Bill Owens, George Pataki, Mitt Romney, Tommy Thompson, Colin Powell, Hutchison
2R-: Republican, the Clintons
18D=, 6R=
The Education of Dan Rather
2 December 2004
2854 54 4D-: Jimmy Carter, Clark Clifford, Cyrus Vance, Clark Clifford
9R+: Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Republican Senate, Condi Rice, Nixon, George H.W. Bush, Bush, vice president, George W. Bush
1R-: Nixon
2D=, 7R=
Condi Rice! Porter Goss! Arlen Specter! Settle down and take a breath.
18 November 2004
1953 56 1D-: Paul Begala
16R+: Condi Rice, Porter Goss, Arlen Specter, Arlen Specter, president, Condi Rice, Rice, Bob Dole, President Bush, Bushian, White House, Porter Goss, Condi Rice, Specter, Arlen Specter, Republican Party
1R-: Specter
11R=
Why I can't stop being happy about the election result.
11 November 2004
2983 64 2D+: Kerry, FDR
4D-: Kerry, John Kerry, Democrats, Chris Heinz
33R+: Republicans, Republicans, George W. Bush, The president, president, Bush, Bush, Bush, President Bush, Bush, Republicans, Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, White House, Bush, Bush, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Reagan, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Reagan, Bush, the president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
6D=, 6R=
So Much to Savor
4 November 2004
1347 49 5D+: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kerry, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry
9D-: Bill Clinton, Democrats, Tom Daschle, Democratic Party, George Soros, Kerry, Democratic, John Kerry, Kerry
15R+: George W. Bush, president of the United States, George W. Bush, The president, Ronald Reagan, Bush, Bush, Republican, the president, Republicans, the president, Bush, Republican, Bush, Rush Limbaugh
1R-: Bush
3D=
Now Is the Time
5 August 2004
1798 39 2D+: JFK, John Kerry
2D-: Democratic Party, Democratic
9R+: President Bush, Vice President Cheney, administration, Republicans, Republican Party, Republican Party, White House, Reagan, President Bush
3D=, 4R=
Speaking for Kerry
29 July 2004
1464 25 3D+: Barack Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Clinton
8D-: John Kerry, Democratic Party, Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Hillary Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Jimmy Carter
9D=
Will the Real John Kerry Please Stand Up?
22 July 2004
1559 17 9D+: JFK, JFK, FDR, JFK, JFK, JFK, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards
16D-: John Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Bob Shrum, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry, Shrum, Kerry, Kerry, Hillary, Hillary, Hillary
3R+: George Bush, Bush, Bush
1R-: George Herbert Walker Bush
19D=, 4R=
Speak Softly, Mr. Bush
15 July 2004
1777 11 1D+: FDR
2R+: Bush administration, Bush
3R-: President Bush, President Bush, Bush
5D=, 9R=
A Triumph of Images
8 July 2004
1450 22 4D+: Kerry, Kennedy, Heinz, Teresa Heinz
12D-: Democrats, Kerry, Kerry, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
1R+: Republicans
18D=, 7R=
What I Saw at the Evacuation
24 June 2004
2771 46 1D+: JFK
26R+: Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Kemp, Meese, Laxalt, Reagan, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ann Dore McLaughlin, Reagan, George W. Bush, Haig, Haig, Reagan, Richard Nixon, Marilyn Quayle, George Bush, Pete Domenici, the Reagans, Richard Perle, Jim Baker, Ed Meese, William Clark, Mike Deaver, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan
2R-: Richard Nixon, Haig
3D=, 15R=
Because I Am Not Done
17 June 2004
2416 87 1D+: FDR
27R+: Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, President Reagan, Reagan, Republicans, Marlin Fitzwater, Reagan, Reagan's White House, Reagan, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, the Reagans, the Reagans, the Reagans, the Reagans, the Reagans, the Reagans, the Reagans, the Reagans, president
1R=
The Ben Elliott Story
14 June 2004
4273 57 12D+: FDR, FDR, Kennedys, Tom Daschle, Byron Dorgan, Reed, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, president, Kennedy, John Kennedy, John Kennedy
74R+: PEGGY NOONAN, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, RWR, George Shultz, Al Haig, Reagan, Reagan, White House, White House, the Reagans, The Reagans, The Reagans, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Rick Santorum, Reagan, Reaganism, Ed Meese, Reagan, Reagan, Richard Perle, Reagan, Reagan, Orin Hatch, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, President Reagan, Mr. President, Reagan, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, White House, Reagan, Eisenhower, President Bush, Ike, George Shultz, Marty Anderson, Reagan, Ken Duberstein, William Clark, Reagan, Michael Reagan, Karl Rove, Reagan, Republicanism, Dick Cheney, Reagan, White House, Reagan, Schultz, Anderson, Clark, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, the president, the president, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, the president, Reagan, Noonan
1R-: White House
3D=, 3R=
Thanks From a Grateful Country
7 June 2004
2469 51 3D+: FDR, Truman, JFK
3D-: Democratic Party, Pat Brown, Jimmy Carter
13R+: Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Dutch, Dutch, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Republican, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, White House, White House, Dutch
1R-: Gerald Ford
1R=
The Most Exalting Day
4 June 2004
834 0
Big Mike, No Message
3 June 2004
2352 30 2D+: Kerry, Kerry
5D-: John Kerry, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
3R+: President Bush, Bush, Bush
1R-: Bush
2D=, 4R=
Let's Catch Them Now
27 May 2004
1351 0 1R=
Doctorow's Malpractice
25 May 2004
1219 20 2R+: Bush, Bush
2D=, 5R=
Can Bush Win Anna's Vote?
20 May 2004
1960 15 6D+: Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, Kerry, Democrats, Kerry
4D-: Clinton, Hillary, Kerry, Kerry
9R+: President Bush, Bush, Republican, Bush, Republican, Bush, Bush, Republicans, George W. Bush
1R-: Bush
3D=, 6R=
Bada Bing? Bada Boom.
13 May 2004
1460 4 2D+: Sam Ervin, Kerry
3D-: Robert Torricelli, Jim McGreevey, Democratic
1R-: Richard Nixon
1D=
A Humiliation for America
6 May 2004
1148 0 4R=
A 40-year-old play reveals something awful about today's culture.
29 April 2004
1654 0
People Have Eyes
22 April 2004
1493 88 11D-: Bill Clinton, Clinton, John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, Ted Kennedy, Kerry, Democrat, Democrats
16R+: Bush, President Bush, Bush, the president, Bush, George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, President Bush, Bush, the president, Bush, administration, Bush
1R-: Bush
2R=
Unhappy Warriors
15 April 2004
1414 44 2D-: Bill Clinton, Clinton
10R+: President Bush, the president, The president, Bush, Mr. President, president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
1R-: The president
2D=, 10R=
A Good Newscast
8 April 2004
1570 83 1D+: Harry Truman
6D-: Clinton administration, Edward Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy
17R+: Condoleezza Rice, Rice, Bush administration, Bush administration, administration, Rice, Rice, the president, Bush administration, administration, Rice, George W. Bush, John McCain, McCain, Republican, McCain, Rush Limbaugh
1R-: Richard Nixon
A Message for Fallujah
1 April 2004
1082 0
Hearings Won't Make Us Safe
25 March 2004
1518 61 9D-: Sandy Berger, Albright, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, president
1R+: Ronald Reagan
4D=, 3R=
A Great Moment
18 March 2004
1440 0
An Eight-Month Run
11 March 2004
2712 54 3D+: Democrats, Kerry, Kerry
27D-: John Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, Bob Shrum, Teddy Kennedy, Kerry, Al Gore, Democratic, Bob Shrum, Democratic, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, John Kerry, Teddy Kennedy, Kennedy, Joe Biden
28R+: George W. Bush, Republican, Bush, Bush, GOP, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Laura Bush, Dick Cheney, the president, Cheney, Bush, Cheney, administration, Laura Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, the president, Bush, Republican, Bush, Mr. President, Bush, Republican, administration
3R-: Republicans, Republican, GOP
10D=, 21R=
JFK Disease
4 March 2004
2306 32 5D+: John Kerry, president, JFK, JFK, Hillary
26D-: Kerry, Kerry, President Clinton, Gary Hart, Hart, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Al Gore, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, Clinton, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, Democratic, Clinton, Democrats, JFK
2R+: the president, Republicans
1R-: George Bush
30D=, 8R=
The State of the Race
26 February 2004
1435 28 3D+: John Kerry, Edwards, Edwards
13D-: Kerry, John Edwards, John Edwards, Democrats, Democrat, Kerry, Kerry, Edwards, Kerry, Edwards, John Kerry, Kerry, Al Gore
4R+: the president, Bush, Bush, Lee Atwater
1R-: Republican
16D=, 12R=
Broken Glass Democrats
19 February 2004
1539 14 6D+: Democrats, Democrats, Teddy Kennedy, Howard Dean, Democrats, Democrats
15R+: Bush, The president, the president, the president, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, the president, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Bush, Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush, George W. Bush
2R-: Republicans, Bush
3D=, 3R=
The Paragraph
12 February 2004
1680 24 5D-: Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter, Carter, Carter, Hamilton Jordan
7R+: White House, the president, the president, Bush, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, White House
5R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush, George Bush, Bush White House
3D=, 14R=
Philosophy, Not Policy
8 February 2004
1759 6 2D+: John Kerry, Hillary Clinton
3D-: Teddy Kennedy, Clinton, Democratic
8R+: the president, the president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Reagan, Bush
13R-: Bush, President Bush, The president, Bush, The president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Dwight Eisenhower, George W. Bush, Bush
10D=, 16R=
Janet Jackson and the Frog
5 February 2004
1514 0
General Malaise
27 January 2004
1804 31 5D+: Democratic, John Kerry, Democrat, Democratic, Democratic
21D-: Wesley Clark, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark, Wes Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark, Democratic Party, Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark, Wes Clark
4R+: Dole, Republican, Eisenhower, Eisenhower
3R-: George W. Bush, Bob Dole, John McCain
19D=, 5R=
The story of the Vatican and Mel Gibson's film gets curiouser.
22 January 2004
1921 0
Iowa May Be Howard's End
15 January 2004
1686 13 11D+: Dick Gephardt, John Kerry, John Edwards, Edwards, Gephardt, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Dean, Democrats, Gephardt
18D-: Dean, Dean, Democratic, Dean, Howard Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Clintonian, Dean, Dean, Clark, Dean, Dean
24D=, 2R=
The Dean Disappointment
8 January 2004
1541 18 9D+: Bill Clinton, Dean, Dean, McGovern, Democratic, Democratic, Clinton, Dean, Dean
18D-: Dean, Michael Dukakis, Howard Dean, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clintonian, Dean, Democrats, Dean, Dean, Dean, Howard Dean, Dean, Democrat, Dean, Michael Dukakis, Dean, Dean
2R+: President Bush, Bush
2R-: Republican Party, Republicans
17D=, 4R=