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The absurdity of partisanship
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Ann Coulter
Universal Press Syndicate

Columns 50
Words 56427
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 66.81
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 49.43
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 58.12
Democratic Index -77.04
Republican Index 19.14
Positive Index 27.49
Negative Index 48.76
Neutral Index 23.76



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 9 Clinton, Lanny Davis, Gore, Democratic, Joe Lieberman, McGovern, Carter, Pat Caddell, the president
Negative Democratic 321 Democrats(86), Teddy(36), Democrat(16), Kennedy(14), John Kerry(13), Bill Clinton(10), Clinton(9), Democratic(8), Kerry(8), Earle(7), Howard Dean(7), Teddy Kennedy(7), Murtha(7), Ronnie Earle(6), Soros(6), Senate Democrats(5), Jimmy Carter(4), liberals(3), Carter(3), George Soros(3), Chuck Schumer(3), Hillary(3), Harry Reid(3), Faubus(2), Democratic Party(2), Joe Biden(2), Reid(2), Ted Kennedy(2), Bob Shrum(2), president(2), Byrd, Teresa Heinz, Heinz, Dean, Orval Faubus, Dennis Kucinich, Barbra Streisand, Patty Murray, Nancy Pelosi, Rosa DeLauro, Barbara Boxer, Murray, president of the United States, the president, Clintonista, Democratic president, Clintonland, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Schumer, Democratic National Committee, Carter administration, Al Sharpton, Dick Durbin, Patrick Leahy, Clinton White House, Gary Hartpence, JFK, Billy Blythe, Shrum, John Kohn, Gary Hart, Robert Byrd, Pat Leahy, Liberals, Ramsey Clark, John Murtha, DNC, Bob Byrd, John D. Rockefeller
Neutral Democratic 75Murtha(15), Democrats(14), Democrat(6), Democratic(4), Kerry(4), Hillary Clinton(2), John Kerry(2), Gore(2), John Murtha(2), Clinton(2), Cahill, Jimmy Carter, George Soros, Soros, Biden, Chuck Schumer, administration, Murray, Bob Beckel, Democratic Senate, Hubert Humphrey, Democratic Party, Paul Wellstone, Gray Davis, Bill Clinton, Patrick Leahy, Hillary, Mary Beth Cahill, Nancy Pelosi, Teddy Kennedy, Kennedy, FDR
Positive Republican 256 Bush(36), McCarthy(21), Republican(20), Republicans(18), Reagan(13), Tom DeLay(12), DeLay(12), White House(7), President Bush(6), Harris(6), Bolton(5), McCarthyism(5), Karl Rove(5), the president(5), Ronald Reagan(4), George Bush(4), Rush Limbaugh(3), Dick Cheney(3), Condoleezza Rice(3), Schmidt(3), Hutchison(3), Katherine Harris(3), Newt Gingrich(2), Republican Party(2), Pat Toomey(2), John Bolton(2), Bush administration(2), Cheney(2), Ed Meese(2), Rice(2), Joseph McCarthy(2), North(2), R-(2), Cunningham(2), Nixon(2), Limbaugh(2), Republican Senate, Republican president, Colin Powell, Alan Keyes, vice president, Rove, Republican Congress, commander in chief, Richard Perle, Bill Frist, president, Donald Rumsfeld, administration, Joe McCarthy, Condi Rice, Ken Starr, Condi, President George Bush, Oliver North, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Randy Cunningham, Republican administration, Mary Cheney, Jean Schmidt, President Dwight Eisenhower, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Hutchinson, Vice President Dick Cheney, Reagan administration, Meese, Eisenhower
Negative Republican 149 Bush(45), Republicans(18), Republican(12), White House(8), Karl Rove(5), Martinez(4), Nixon(4), Mel Martinez(3), Chafee(3), President Bush(3), the president(3), Lincoln Chafee(3), Rove(2), Gerald Ford(2), Bush administration(2), Arlen Specter(2), Bush White House(2), Reagan(2), administration(2), Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, president Bush, RNC, Richard Riordan, Dick Thornburgh, Mitt Romney, Kevin Phillips, George Herbert Walker Bush, Goldwater, Jerry Ford, Trent Lott, Lindsey Graham, Mike DeWine, Nixon White House, John McCain, Laura, John Warner, George Bush, Lewis Libby, Libby, Republican Party, DeLay, Bob Dole
Neutral Republican 154Bush(33), Republican(18), Republicans(13), Nixon(7), President Bush(7), administration(4), McCarthy(4), White House(4), John McCain(3), vice president(3), the President(3), R-(3), the president(2), George W. Bush(2), Martinez(2), Republican Party(2), Arlen Specter(2), Bush administration(2), DeLay(2), Ike, Jeb Bush, Chris Shays, Senate Republicans, Reagan, Donald Rumsfeld, Republican National Committee, Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Boyden Gray, Dick Thornburgh, president, first lady , Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Lincoln Chafee, Frank Luntz, Bill Simon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Karl Rove, Republican Senate, Specter, Dick Cheney, GOP, Joshua B. Bolten, Pat Buchanan, The president, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Steve Hadley, Henry Hyde, Curt Weldon, Cunningham, House Republicans, Jean Schmidt, Tom DeLay, Rush Limbaugh, Nixon administration



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
Kwanzaa: A Holiday From the FBI
28 December 2005
1052 67 2R-: President Bush, Bush
1R=
Live and let spy
21 December 2005
824 44 1D+: the president
2D-: Democrats, John D. Rockefeller
2R+: Bush administration, the president
1D=
Why can't I get arrested?
15 December 2005
954 81 7D-: Democratic, Democrat, Ronnie Earle, Democratic, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Teddy Kennedy
17R+: Rush Limbaugh, Tom DeLay, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Reagan administration, Reagan, Ed Meese, Meese, Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh, Tom DeLay, Tom DeLay, DeLay, the president, Tom DeLay, Limbaugh, DeLay
2R-: Bob Dole, Gerald Ford
2R=
DeLay hammers Earle of Austin
7 December 2005
1016 81 13D-: Earle, Democrat, Ronnie Earle, Earle, Ronnie Earle, Ronnie Earle, Ronnie Earle, Ronnie Earle, Earle, Earle, Earle, Earle, Earle
13R+: DeLay, Tom DeLay, DeLay, DeLay, DeLay, Republican, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Hutchinson, Republican, Tom DeLay, Hutchison, Hutchison, Hutchison
2R-: President Bush, DeLay
3R=
We like you! We really, really like you!
1 December 2005
1236 27 12D-: Democratic, John Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Democrats, Democrat, Murtha, Democrat, Democrat, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha
13R+: Ronald Reagan, Oliver North, North, North, Randy Cunningham, R-, Cunningham, Cunningham, Jean Schmidt, R-, Schmidt, Schmidt, Schmidt
8R-: Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Republican, Republican, Republicans, Republican Party
22D=, 13R=
New idea for Abortion Party: Aid the enemy
24 November 2005
1009 80 11D-: Democratic Party, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Murtha, Ramsey Clark, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
1R+: Republicans
3D=
Townhall.com :: Are you now or have you ever been a second-rate filmmaker? by Ann Coulter Nov 17, 2005
17 November 2005
972 100 11R+: Joseph McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthyism, McCarthyism, McCarthyism, McCarthyism, McCarthy, McCarthy
Danny Ocean defends the Rather network
9 November 2005
1038 84 1D-: Pat Leahy
19R+: Joe McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy, President George Bush, McCarthy
4R=
Alito nominated, Democrats hide from base
3 November 2005
1223 76 19D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic Party, Democrats, Senate Democrats, Harry Reid, Reid, Reid, Senate Democrats, Harry Reid, Harry Reid, Senate Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
8R+: White House, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Nixon, administration, Bush
3R-: Lewis Libby, Libby, White House
1D=, 3R=

26 October 2005
1213 40 3D-: Democrats, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden
24R-: Bush White House, Nixon White House, Nixon, Nixon, Nixon, Nixon, Bush, Bush, Bush, White House, the president, Laura, administration, Bush White House, White House, administration, White House, Bush, Republican, Bush, White House, Bush, George Bush, Bush
4D=, 14R=
Who was the 2nd choice? by Ann Coulter Oct 20, 2005
20 October 2005
920 47 4R-: Bush administration, the president, Karl Rove, White House
1D=, 3R=
This is what 'advice and consent' means
5 October 2005
1115 19 2D-: John Kerry, Democrats
1R+: Ed Meese
8R-: President Bush, the president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Lincoln Chafee, Bush
2D=, 6R=
Bob Shrum with a good cause
28 September 2005
1389 8 7D-: Bob Shrum, Democrat, Bob Shrum, Shrum, Democrats, Democrats, John Kerry
22R+: Pat Toomey, Katherine Harris, Harris, Harris, Katherine Harris, Harris, Harris, Harris, Republican, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan
40R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, Richard Riordan, Bush, Arlen Specter, Bush, Bush, Mel Martinez, Martinez, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Lincoln Chafee, Chafee, Chafee, Chafee, Bush, Karl Rove, Karl Rove, Bush, Rove, Bush, Bush, Bush, Rove, Bush, Republicans, Gerald Ford, George Herbert Walker Bush, Republican, Goldwater, Jerry Ford, Republican, Bush, Karl Rove, Republicans
4D=, 15R=
Actually, 'judicial activism' means 'E=mc2'
14 September 2005
1045 66 7D-: Democrats, Democratic, John Kerry, Kerry, Howard Dean, Democrats, George Soros
2R+: Richard Perle, Bush
1R-: Bush
4R=
The perfect alibi ...I'll drink to that! (part 2)
8 September 2005
1026 100 28D-: Teddy Kennedy, Teddy, Teddy Kennedy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Kennedy, JFK, Kennedy, Democrat, Teddy, Teddy
How about Ted Kennedy's privacy
1 September 2005
1005 100 29D-: Ted Kennedy, Teddy Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kerry, Bill Clinton, Teddy Kennedy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy, Kennedy, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy
1R+: Bush administration
Conservatives cause global warming and liberal press
24 August 2005
892 0
Cindy Sheehan: Commander in grief
18 August 2005
926 53 2D-: Howard Dean, Democrats
6R+: President Bush, commander in chief, Bush, George Bush, President Bush, Bush
4D=, 2R=
It's 'Let's roll,' not 'Let's roll over'
10 August 2005
988 78 1D-: Howard Dean
2R+: Bush, Republicans
1R=
Read my lips: No new liberals
3 August 2005
1025 0 2D=
Fool me 8 times, shame on me
27 July 2005
1106 24 9R-: Republican, Republican, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Republicans, Bush, Bush, Republicans
8D=, 17R=
Souter in Roberts' clothing
21 July 2005
1522 8 7D-: Bill Clinton, Democrat, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
2R+: Republican Congress, Bush
10R-: White House, president Bush, Republicans, RNC, Republicans, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Bush, Bush
3D=, 6R=
Mission Implausible
13 July 2005
1305 88 1D-: Democrats
21R+: Karl Rove, Bush, Karl Rove, Bush, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Republicans, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney, Dick Cheney, Cheney, Bush, Republicans, Dick Cheney, Bush, Karl Rove, White House, vice president, Rove, White House
3R=
Reagan's biggest mistake finally retires
6 July 2005
1261 5 1D-: Chuck Schumer
2R-: Reagan, Reagan
1D=, 4R=
Thou shalt not commit religion
29 June 2005
1016 0 2R=
Guantanamo loses 5-star rating
22 June 2005
858 100 11D-: Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter, Carter, Dick Durbin, Democrat, Teddy Kennedy, Patrick Leahy, liberals, Clinton White House, Democrats, Democrats
Losing their heads over Gitmo
15 June 2005
1025 37 1D-: Joe Biden
3R+: Katherine Harris, Harris, Pat Toomey
13R-: Bush, Mel Martinez, Bush, Martinez, Arlen Specter, Republican, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Karl Rove, Martinez, Mel Martinez, Martinez
1D=, 4R=
Woodward does Washington
8 June 2005
1172 32 4D-: Jimmy Carter, Carter administration, Jimmy Carter, Carter
1R+: Nixon
1R-: White House
11R=
7 'extraordinary' idiots
2 June 2005
1106 47 23D-: Democrats, Democrats, Clinton, Senate Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Senate Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Al Gore, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Chuck Schumer, Democrat, Schumer
9R+: Bush, Bush, Republican, John Bolton, Bush, Republicans, Republicans, Bill Frist, Republican
14R-: Republican, Republicans, Republicans, Trent Lott, Republican, Republicans, Republicans, Lindsey Graham, Mike DeWine, John McCain, John Warner, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Lincoln Chafee
1D=, 4R=
What left-wing PBS bias?
25 May 2005
1142 100 1D-: George Soros
6R+: Condoleezza Rice, Condi, Rice, Rice, Republicans, Republican
Newsweek dissembled, Muslims dismembered!
18 May 2005
1052 100 7D-: president of the United States, the president, president, Bill Clinton, president, Clinton, Democratic president
Ever have one of those millennia?
11 May 2005
1063 100 6D-: John Kerry, Democrats, John Kerry, Carter, Democrats, Hillary
1R+: Bush
The devil is out of details
5 May 2005
1377 92 8D-: Democrats, Rosa DeLauro, Democrats, Democrat, Democrats, Barbara Boxer, Democrats, Democrats
35R+: Tom DeLay, DeLay, Tom DeLay, Republican, Tom DeLay, Tom DeLay, DeLay, DeLay, Republicans, Republican, Bush, Republican Party, Republicans, DeLay, DeLay, Republican, Republican, Republican, DeLay, Republican, Republican, Republicans, Republican, Republican, Republican, John Bolton, Bush, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bush, Ronald Reagan, Alan Keyes
1R-: Kevin Phillips
2R=
Drag liberals into the light
29 April 2005
1151 87 10D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
12R+: Republicans, Republican Senate, Republican president, Rush Limbaugh, Republicans, President Bush, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Bush, Tom DeLay, Bush, Bush
4R=
Pies, lies & videotape
21 April 2005
900 100 1D-: Democrat
1R+: Tom DeLay
It's only funny until someone loses a pie
14 April 2005
1317 63 3D-: Democrat, Democrat, Democrat
3R+: Republican, Republicans, Republican
1D=, 3R=
The purpose-driven left
7 April 2005
1309 100 3D-: Democrats, Democratic, Nancy Pelosi
The emperor's new robes
31 March 2005
1247 50 8D+: Clinton, Lanny Davis, Gore, Democratic, Joe Lieberman, McGovern, Carter, Pat Caddell
2D-: Barbra Streisand, Ted Kennedy
3R=
Starved for justice
24 March 2005
1317 61 9D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Orval Faubus, Bill Clinton, Faubus, Faubus, Democrats
4R+: Republicans, President Dwight Eisenhower, Republican, Eisenhower
2R-: Republican, Mitt Romney
6R=
Freeze! I just had my nails done!
17 March 2005
1225 100 1R+: Bush
Come back, liberals!
10 March 2005
1354 100 19D-: DNC, Howard Dean, Democrats, Democratic, Bob Byrd, Byrd, Teresa Heinz, Heinz, Howard Dean, Democrat, Dean, Teddy Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Democrats, Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, Democrats, Democrats
7R+: President Bush, the president, Bush, Republicans, Republican, Bush, Republican Party
Calling the kettle gay
3 March 2005
1151 100 7D-: Democrats, liberals, liberals, Democrats, Robert Byrd, Liberals, John Kerry
5R+: Republican administration, Republicans, Mary Cheney, Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan
Republicans, bloggers and gays, oh my!
24 February 2005
1186 88 10D-: Democrats, Clinton, Democrats, Gary Hartpence, Billy Blythe, John Kohn, Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Democrats
6R+: Republicans, White House, White House, White House, the president, White House
3R=
Not Crazy Horse, just crazy
17 February 2005
1105 0 1R=
The little Injun that could
11 February 2005
1451 100 7D-: Howard Dean, Democratic National Committee, John Kerry, Hillary, Al Sharpton, John Kerry, John Kerry
1R+: Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Iraq the vote
3 February 2005
1048 53 12D-: Democrats, Democrats, Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, Democrats, Kerry, Democratic, Kerry, Soros, Soros, Soros
2R+: Bush, President Bush
10D=, 3R=
Where's that religious fanatic we elected?
27 January 2005
1023 43 2D-: Hillary Clinton, Hillary
2D=, 1R=
It's our party, you can cry if you want to
20 January 2005
912 82 12D-: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clintonista, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clintonland, John Kerry, George Soros, Soros, Soros, Soros
3R+: Ken Starr, Bush, Bush
1D=, 3R=
Liar, liar, now you're fired
13 January 2005
1654 68 8D-: Kerry, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Democrats, Kerry, Kerry
14R+: George Bush, George Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, president, Bush, Bush, Bush, President Bush, Bush, the president, Condi Rice, George Bush
3R-: Republicans, Republican, Dick Thornburgh
2D=, 2R=
Liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole
6 January 2005
1204 62 2D-: Patty Murray, Murray
1R+: Bush
1D=, 1R=