lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Brendan Miniter
WSJ OpinionJournal

Columns 26
Words 27395
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 30.86
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 24.72
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 27.79
Democratic Index -14.97
Republican Index 34.43
Positive Index 36.66
Negative Index 19.96
Neutral Index 43.38



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 35 Democrats(8), Democratic(4), Democrat(4), Bill Clinton(3), Bredesen(2), FDR(2), Blagojevich, Bill Richardson, John Kerry, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Bob Kerrey, Phil Bredesen, Stabenow, Rod Blagojevich, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Kennedy, Democratic Leadership Council, Marshall Wittmann
Negative Democratic 63 Democrats(20), John Kerry(5), Clinton(4), Democratic Party(4), Democratic(3), President Clinton(3), Hoyer(3), Democrat(2), Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, Carol Moseley Braun, Senate Democrats, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Dan Rostenkowski, Chet Edwards, Mark Dayton, Mark Warner, Dems, Michael Dukakis, Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Kennedy, Clinton administration, LBJ, John F. Kennedy, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy
Neutral Democratic 89Democrats(25), Democrat(8), Hoyer(6), Democratic(5), D(2), Jon Corzine(2), Hillary Clinton(2), President Clinton(2), FDR(2), Kennedy(2), John Kerry(2), DLC(2), Stephanie Herseth, Earl Pomeroy, Debbie Stabenow, Edwards, Maria Cantwell, Cantwell, Dianne Feinstein, Pat Leahy, Senate Democrats, Leahy, House Democrats, Clinton, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Hillary, John Breaux, Blagojevich, Democratic president, Kerry, Ted Kennedy, JFK, Rick Boucher, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Paul Wellstone, George Wallace, Jimmy Carter, Carter, Harold Ford
Positive Republican 156 President Bush(22), Bush(18), Rice(11), Republicans(9), Republican(9), the president(8), Shaw(7), Reagan(6), Kline(5), GOP(5), administration(4), George W. Bush(4), Hunter(4), Ronald Reagan(4), John Kline(3), The president(3), Condoleezza Rice(2), President Reagan(2), Republican Party(2), Clay Shaw(2), Romney(2), president(2), Condi Rice(2), Terry Everett, Mike Rogers, Rogers, Bush administration, president of the United States, Clay Shaw Jr., Duncan Hunter, Condi, Frist, Allen, George H.W. Bush, Colin Powell, John Thune, Jeb Bush, the Gipper, Vice President Bush, McCain, Nixon, John H. McHugh, John Lehman
Negative Republican 41 Republicans(5), Republican(4), McCain(4), Nixon(3), the president(3), Bush(3), President Bush(2), Richard Nixon(2), administration(2), Bill Thomas, Republican Senate, Pat Buchanan, congressional Republicans, Charles Colson, George H.W. Bush, G. Gordon Liddy, George Pataki, Vice President Spiro Agnew, Agnew, President Nixon, Hunter, Chuck Hagel
Neutral Republican 137Republicans(28), the president(15), President Bush(15), Republican(9), Bush(8), GOP(6), Romney(5), administration(5), McCain(4), Shaw(3), Ronald Reagan(3), Hunter(3), Bill Frist(2), House Republicans(2), Mitt Romney(2), White House(2), Candice Miller, Miller, Michael Flanagan, congressional Republicans, Newt Gingrich, George W. Bush, Republican Party, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, Connie Mack, President Reagan, Bob Simmons, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lindsey Graham, Graham, George Allen, Rice, John McCain, Gerald Ford, president, Vice President George Bush, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Nixon, Duncan Hunter, Bill Thomas



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
The Defeatist Caucus
28 June 2005
1280 79 3D-: Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, President Clinton
6R+: Bush, the president, administration, Ronald Reagan, President Reagan, president
3R=
No Time to Go Wobbly
21 June 2005
879 21 2D-: Joe Biden, Democrat
1R-: Chuck Hagel
3D=, 2R=
Hunter and the Hunted
14 June 2005
1259 42 6R+: Hunter, John Lehman, Hunter, John Kline, Hunter, Hunter
1R-: Hunter
5R=
Hero or not, Mark Felt did America a great service.
7 June 2005
1172 16 4D-: Democratic Party, Clinton administration, LBJ, John F. Kennedy
2R+: Nixon, Reagan
14R-: Pat Buchanan, Richard Nixon, Charles Colson, Nixon, G. Gordon Liddy, administration, Vice President Spiro Agnew, Agnew, Richard Nixon, the president, President Nixon, Nixon, Nixon, administration
3D=, 3R=
The McCain Myth
31 May 2005
1424 15 4D+: Democratic Leadership Council, Bill Clinton, Democrat, Marshall Wittmann
5D-: Democrats, John Kerry, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
17R+: Reagan, the Gipper, Reagan, Reagan, Republican Party, President Bush, Republican, Republicans, Republican, Vice President Bush, Reagan, George W. Bush, McCain, President Bush, Republican, Republican, President Bush
8R-: Republicans, McCain, McCain, Bush, Republican, McCain, Republican Senate, McCain
10D=, 15R=
Bush's Mighty Pen
24 May 2005
905 25 9R+: Bush, Bush, Bush, The president, president, Clay Shaw, Republican, President Bush, the president
3R-: the president, Republican, Bill Thomas
12R=
A Question of Character
19 May 2005
1010 50 1D+: FDR
1D=
Better Ted Than Dead
17 May 2005
1016 13 2D+: Democratic, Kennedy
3D-: Michael Dukakis, Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Kennedy
6R+: Frist, Allen, George H.W. Bush, Romney, John Thune, Romney
2R-: George Pataki, Republicans
7D=, 16R=
Soak the Green
10 May 2005
1097 0 2D=, 1R=
What's Next for Intelligence?
3 May 2005
1002 83 10R+: John Kline, John Kline, Republican, Reagan, Duncan Hunter, Kline, Kline, Kline, Kline, Kline
2R=
Yanks Need Not Apply
19 April 2005
1073 0
Cracking the Code
13 April 2005
702 0 2D=, 7R=
Power to the Papal
5 April 2005
1043 100 2R+: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush
Worse Than No Reform
29 March 2005
1188 17 2D+: House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Democrat
6D-: Democrats, Hoyer, Hoyer, President Clinton, Democrats, Hoyer
4R+: President Reagan, Republican, Clay Shaw, Shaw
2R-: President Bush, Republicans
13D=, 10R=
The Schiavo case shows that it's about more than abortion.
22 March 2005
929 73 8R+: George W. Bush, Bush, President Bush, Republicans, The president, President Bush, Bush, president of the United States
3R=
All That Work for Nothing?
16 March 2005
1083 78 2D-: Democrats, Democratic Party
1R=
End of Another Era?
8 March 2005
1271 37 7D-: Democrats, Democrats, Clinton, Democrats, Democrats, Clinton, President Clinton
9R+: Clay Shaw Jr., Shaw, Shaw, Shaw, Shaw, Shaw, Shaw, Republicans, GOP
1R-: President Bush
8D=, 19R=
The 'Hotel' Lobby
1 March 2005
1272 46 1D+: Bill Clinton
1D-: Clinton
3R+: President Bush, The president, President Bush
When the Cows Come Homeland
22 February 2005
859 0 7D=
Another Red November?
15 February 2005
1100 3 5D+: Bill Clinton, Democrats, Stabenow, FDR, Democrats
5D-: Bill Clinton, Dan Rostenkowski, Democrats, Chet Edwards, Mark Dayton
8R+: Republicans, GOP, Republicans, GOP, Republicans, Republican, GOP, Bush
6R-: Republicans, congressional Republicans, Bush, the president, Bush, George H.W. Bush
13D=, 18R=
The Cows Come Home
8 February 2005
922 100 2D-: John Kerry, Democrat
9R+: George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush, Rice, President Bush, Rice, President Bush, President Bush, President Bush
A Time for Partisanship
2 February 2005
942 49 2D+: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Bob Kerrey
8D-: Democrats, Democratic Party, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Party, Democrats
7R+: Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Republican, GOP, President Bush
4D=, 4R=
Woman of the Year
25 January 2005
990 91 9D-: Democrats, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, Carol Moseley Braun, Senate Democrats, John Kerry, John Kerry, Democratic, Democrats
22R+: Condi Rice, Condoleezza Rice, Rice, Condi, Rice, President Bush, administration, Rice, administration, President Bush, Rice, Rice, Bush, the president, Ronald Reagan, Rice, Bush administration, administration, Rice, Rice, Rice, Condi Rice
1D=, 2R=
Splitsville for the Dems?
18 January 2005
973 45 1D+: John Kerry
3D-: Dems, Democratic, Democrats
19R+: Republicans, Republicans, John H. McHugh, the president, Terry Everett, Mike Rogers, Rogers, Bush, the president, President Bush, the president, Republican Party, Bush, Republicans, the president, President Bush, the president, Bush, President Bush
7D=, 12R=
The Outsiders
11 January 2005
1124 43 17D+: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Phil Bredesen, Democratic, Bredesen, Democrat, Bredesen, Democratic, Rod Blagojevich, Blagojevich, Bill Richardson, Democrat, Democrats
3D-: Mark Warner, Democratic, Clinton
3R+: President Bush, Bush, Ronald Reagan
3R-: Republicans, Republican, Republican
8D=, 2R=
We Are the World
4 January 2005
880 100 6R+: Colin Powell, Jeb Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush