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The absurdity of partisanship
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Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post

Columns 50
Words 43683
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 0.00
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 0.66
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 0.33
Democratic Index -2.96
Republican Index -4.19
Positive Index 29.80
Negative Index 33.44
Neutral Index 36.75



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 44 Democratic(7), Democrats(7), Joe Lieberman(4), Truman(3), Kennedy(2), Albright(2), Carter, Al Gore, John Kerry, Allen, Kerry, Clinton, President John F. Kennedy, Kennedyesque, Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Obama, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Rahm Emanuel, Heath Shuler, Democratic House, Lieberman, Democrat
Negative Democratic 48 Democrats(15), Democratic(7), Lamont(4), Mazzoli(3), Democratic Party(2), Hazel O'Leary, Attorney General Janet Reno, Senate Democrats, Madeleine Albright, Joe Lieberman, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, McGovernite, Democrat, Ned Lamonts, President Bill Clinton, Clinton, Kerry, Franklin Roosevelt, Bob Menendez, Harry Truman, Vernon Jordan
Neutral Democratic 43Democrats(10), Democratic(7), Obama(5), Hillary Clinton(2), Bill Clinton(2), Edward Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Ned Lamont, Lieberman, John Kerry, Lamont, Madeleine Albright, Wesley Clark, Kennedy, JFK, Mark Warner, Warner, Carter, Clinton, John Edwards, Clintonian
Positive Republican 46 Bush(5), Rumsfeld(5), President Bush(4), Allen(4), the president(4), Republican(4), Cheney(3), Bush administration(3), Nixon(2), administration(2), Ronald Reagan(2), Scott McClellan, Vice President Cheney, George Shultz, George Allen, vice president, Colin Powell, Bob Ehrlich, Shultz
Negative Republican 53 Republican(7), The president(4), Baker(3), Simpson(3), President Bush(3), Foley(3), Bush(3), Mark Foley(2), Republicans(2), James Baker(2), administration(2), the president, Bush 41, Ronald Reagan, Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, Don Sherwood, Curt Weldon, Lincoln Chafee, Rick Santorum, Mike DeWine, Conrad Burns, Jack Abramoff, George Allen, Bush administration, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Nixon, Cheney, congressional Republicans, Alan Simpson
Neutral Republican 68Bush(10), the president(8), Republican(7), Republicans(7), administration(4), Condoleezza Rice(4), The president(3), Rice(3), George Bush(3), President Bush(3), Cheney(2), vice president(2), George W. Bush(2), Baker(2), Donald Rumsfeld, President John F. Kennedy, House Republicans, Bush administration, Senate Republican, Rockefeller Republicans, James Baker, 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
No Dancing in the End Zone
22 December 2006
854 0
In Baker's Blunder, A Chance For Bush
15 December 2006
934 18 1D+: Democrat
1D-: Vernon Jordan
2R+: Republican, Bush
5R-: Baker, James Baker, Alan Simpson, Baker, Baker
7R=
That Murder in London
8 December 2006
838 0
This Is Realism?
1 December 2006
884 25 1R-: James Baker
3R=
Just an Anti-Semitic Laugh? Hardly.
24 November 2006
880 3 2D+: Truman, Truman
1D-: Harry Truman
2R+: Nixon, Nixon
1R-: Richard Nixon
Why Iraq Is Crumbling
17 November 2006
864 0
Only a Minor Earthquake
10 November 2006
960 62 14D+: Democrats, Democratic, Democratic, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Rahm Emanuel, Heath Shuler, Democratic House, Democrats, Democrats, Joe Lieberman, Democrats, Lieberman
2D-: Democratic, Democratic
7R-: Republicans, administration, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Republican, Republican, Republicans, Republican
2D=, 6R=
A Duel, but Not Decisive
3 November 2006
977 28 3D+: Democratic, Democratic, Democratic
5D-: Franklin Roosevelt, Democrats, Democratic, Bob Menendez, Democrats
2R+: Bob Ehrlich, Republican
18R-: Republican, Ronald Reagan, President Bush, Bush, Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, Don Sherwood, Mark Foley, Curt Weldon, Lincoln Chafee, Rick Santorum, Republican, Mike DeWine, Conrad Burns, Jack Abramoff, George Allen, Republican, Foley
8D=, 10R=
Winning by Losing
27 October 2006
927 29 8D+: Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Obama, Joe Lieberman, Democrats, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy
1R+: Colin Powell
15D=, 1R=
World War II Is Over
20 October 2006
907 0 3R=
What Will Stop North Korea
13 October 2006
909 18 3D+: President John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedyesque
2R+: President Bush, the president
1D=, 2R=
Angels and Intelligence Estimates
6 October 2006
877 29 2R+: the president, Bush
4R-: Foley, Republican, Mark Foley, Foley
1R=
Everyone's Jewish
25 September 2006
902 6 5D+: Albright, Allen, Kerry, Clinton, Albright
5R+: George Allen, Allen, Allen, Allen, Allen
4D=
Tolerance: A Two-Way Street
22 September 2006
836 0
The Tehran Calculus
15 September 2006
859 50 1R+: President Bush
1R=
Iraq: A Civil War We Can Still Win
8 September 2006
838 14 1D+: John Kerry
2D-: Democrats, Kerry
2R-: The president, The president
Hezbollah's 'Victory'
1 September 2006
847 0
The Perils Of Using 'The Allies'
25 August 2006
866 3 1D-: Clinton
1R-: Bush 41
4R=
A Moment to Be Seized in Lebanon
18 August 2006
842 50 1R+: Bush
1R=
Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Pain
11 August 2006
1005 50 5D+: Democratic, Carter, Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, Joe Lieberman
22D-: Joe Lieberman, Democratic Party, Democratic Party, Democrats, Democratic, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, McGovernite, Democrats, Democrats, Democrat, Democrats, Democrats, Ned Lamonts, Lamont, Democrats, Lamont, Lamont, Lamont, Democratic, Democrats, Democrats
3R+: Ronald Reagan, Bush, Ronald Reagan
6D=, 4R=
Israel's Lost Moment
4 August 2006
861 0
'Disproportionate' in What Moral Universe?
28 July 2006
809 0
Lebanon: The Only Exit Strategy
19 July 2006
833 0 1R=
Why They Fight
14 July 2006
848 0
Emergency Over, Saith the Court
7 July 2006
862 32 3R+: administration, the president, Republican
2D=, 4R=
Amnesty for Insurgents? Yes.
30 June 2006
844 69 1D-: Democratic
1R+: Bush administration
1R=
Why I Love Australia
23 June 2006
782 0
A Ban We Don't (Yet) Need
9 June 2006
885 0 1D=
Hot dogs and beer
2 June 2006
866 0
Say No to Tehran's Gambit
26 May 2006
838 84 2D-: Madeleine Albright, Democratic
3R+: Bush administration, President Bush, Bush
1R=
Why Is Border Security 'Conservative'?
19 May 2006
896 47 1D-: Mazzoli
7R-: President Bush, Simpson, The president, administration, The president, the president, Bush
4R=
Sparing Moussaoui for the Wrong Reasons
12 May 2006
851 0
Never Again?
5 May 2006
867 0
Say It With Me: Supply and Demand
28 April 2006
932 32 4D-: President Bill Clinton, Hazel O'Leary, Attorney General Janet Reno, Senate Democrats
2R+: George Shultz, Shultz
3R-: President Bush, Bush, congressional Republicans
1D=, 1R=
The Generals' Dangerous Whispers
21 April 2006
929 52 1D+: Truman
7R+: Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Bush administration, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, administration
3R=
Immigrants Must Choose
14 April 2006
870 0 1R=
First a Wall -- Then Amnesty
7 April 2006
856 9 2D-: Mazzoli, Mazzoli
2R-: Simpson, Simpson
Fukuyama's Fantasy
28 March 2006
880 0
Of Course It's a Civil War
24 March 2006
859 0
Pandora and Polygamy
17 March 2006
781 0
The Kurd Card
10 March 2006
843 0
Oscars for Osama
3 March 2006
902 4 1D+: Lyndon Johnson
1R+: Republican
1D=, 2R=
A Dubai Finesse
24 February 2006
894 52 4D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
1R+: the president
2D=, 3R=
Quell Quailgate
17 February 2006
886 45 6R+: Scott McClellan, vice president, Vice President Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney
1R-: Cheney
4R=
Curse of the Moderates
10 February 2006
832 0
Palestine Without Illusions
3 February 2006
842 0 1R+: President Bush
1R-: Bush administration
Marcel, My Brother
27 January 2006
917 0
The Iran Charade, Part II
18 January 2006
841 0
'Munich,' the Travesty
13 January 2006
910 0
A Calamity for Israel
6 January 2006
861 0