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The absurdity of partisanship
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David S. Broder
Washington Post

Columns 91
Words 83026
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 0.00
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 3.64
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 1.82
Democratic Index 18.44
Republican Index 6.10
Positive Index 34.15
Negative Index 23.02
Neutral Index 42.82



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 361 Democrats(42), Democratic(36), Obama(32), Clinton(16), Barack Obama(15), Durbin(10), McGovern(9), Pelosi(8), Richardson(8), Hillary Rodham Clinton(8), Democrat(7), John Edwards(6), Spratt(6), Napolitano(6), Patrick(5), Bill Clinton(5), Hillary Clinton(5), Levin(4), Nancy Pelosi(3), Ron Wyden(3), Kent Conrad(3), Bill Richardson(3), Edwards(3), Ted Kennedy(3), Daschle(3), Biden(3), Bayh(3), Conrad(3), Lee Hamilton(2), Clinton administration(2), David Obey(2), Obey(2), Harry Reid(2), Landrieu(2), Jim Cooper(2), Cooper(2), Jimmy Carter(2), Mitchell(2), Steny Hoyer(2), Joe Biden(2), Hamilton(2), Rahm Emanuel(2), Kerry(2), Democratic Party(2), Ed Rendell(2), Hillary(2), Wyden(2), Bradley(2), Deval Patrick, Sala Burton, Madeleine Albright, Richard Durbin, House Democratic, Tom Foley, Mary Landrieu, Harry M. Reid, John M. Spratt Jr., David R. Obey, Richard Bolling, Robert Drinan, Tom Vilsack, Reid, Mo Udall, Hamilton Jordan, George Mitchell, Tom Daschle, Penn, Schoen, Hoyer, Waxman, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, George Miller, Moynihan, Birch Bayh, Evan Bayh, Martin O'Malley, Al Gore, John Spratt, House Democrats, Jeff Bingaman, Bingaman, Charles Rangel, Sander Levin, Emanuel, John F. Kennedy, Carol Shea-Porter, Shea-Porter, John F. Kerry, George McGovern, Gary Hart, Lyndon Johnson, Lady Bird, Henry Cisneros, Vice President Al Gore, John Baldacci, Kathleen Sebelius, congressional Democrats, Dick Durbin, President Bill Clinton, Paul Tsongas, Max Cleland, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, John Breaux, Beshear, Peter Hart, Hart, John Kennedy, Michelle Obama, Chris Dodd, Bill Bradley
Negative Democratic 184 Democrats(44), Reid(14), Clinton(13), Obama(11), Democratic(11), Harry Reid(7), Hillary Clinton(5), Bill Clinton(4), Nancy Pelosi(4), Edwards(3), President Bill Clinton(3), Barack Obama(3), Richardson(3), House Democratic(3), Pelosi(3), Hillary Rodham Clinton(2), Congressional Democrats(2), John Kerry(2), Democratic Congress(2), John Edwards(2), McGovern(2), Gore(2), Humphrey(2), Eliot Spitzer(2), Spitzer(2), former president(2), the Clintons, Gen. Wesley Clark, Mike Gravel, Shannon O'Brien, congressional Democrats, Howard Dean, Chuck Schumer, D-, Senate Democrats, Democratic-controlled Congress, Democratic Party, Shea-Porter, Gray Davis, Feingold, Vice President Al Gore, Andrew Cuomo, Johnson, Tsongas, White House, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Gravel, Mondale, President Clinton, Chris Dodd, Kathleen Blanco, first lady, the president, first lady , Mark Penn, Barack
Neutral Democratic 415Democrats(75), Democratic(61), Obama(31), Clinton(21), Democrat(16), Hillary Clinton(13), Richardson(11), Edwards(10), Barack Obama(9), John Edwards(9), Reid(8), Hillary Rodham Clinton(7), Joe Biden(6), Chris Dodd(6), Harry Reid(5), Bill Richardson(5), Democratic Party(4), Bayh(4), Feingold(4), Hillary(4), Democratic Congress(3), Dennis Kucinich(3), Nancy Pelosi(3), McGovern(3), Bill Clinton(3), White House(3), D-(3), Carl Levin(2), Lyndon B. Johnson(2), Durbin(2), Democratic National Committee(2), Mike Gravel(2), Clinton administration(2), Bill and Hillary Clinton(2), the Clintons(2), Bill Bradley(2), Frank(2), Al Gore(2), LBJ, Johnson, Jon Tester, Tom Vilsack, John Kerry, Vilsack, congressional Democrats, Henry Waxman, John Conyers, Patrick Leahy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, George Wallace, House and Senate Democrats, Schumer, House Democratic, Clinton White House, Clinton presidency, Rahm Emanuel, Kerry, Byron Dorgan, Dorgan, Herb Kohl, Russ Feingold, Janet Napolitano, Napolitano, Eliot Spitzer, Jon Corzine, Martin O'Malley, Rod Blagojevich, Tim Kaine, John Lynch, Bill Ritter, Ritter, Jennifer Granholm, Chet Culver, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Humphrey, John Connally, Wallace, Vince Foster, Biden, Walter Mondale, President Clinton, Buddy Roemer, John Tanner, Jim Cooper, Tanner, Jim Webb, Steny Hoyer, Leon Panetta, Steve Beshear, Spitzer, former president Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Al Sharpton, Bill, Kucinich, Al From, Democratic Leadership Council, Pelosi, Michael Dukakis, Bradley
Positive Republican 443 McCain(30), Bush(24), Huckabee(24), Republican(23), Republicans(17), John McCain(15), Alexander(15), Thompson(14), Graham(13), LaHood(12), the president(10), Leavitt(10), Romney(9), Cole(9), Jindal(9), White House(8), Mitt Romney(8), Mike Huckabee(8), GOP(8), President Bush(7), Schwarzenegger(7), Fred Thompson(6), Rudy Giuliani(5), administration(5), Giuliani(5), Michel(4), Reagan(4), Gregg(4), Ford(3), Lamar Alexander(3), Snowe(3), George W. Bush(3), Baker(3), Ronald Reagan(3), Richard Nixon(3), Rove(3), Ray LaHood(3), Buchanan(3), James A. Baker III(2), Mitch McConnell(2), Arnold Schwarzenegger(2), Bob Dole(2), John B. Anderson(2), Stockman(2), Tommy Thompson(2), George Bush(2), Frist(2), Schwab(2), Bush administration(2), Goldwater(2), Chuck Grassley(2), Orrin Hatch(2), Lindsey Graham(2), Sonny Perdue(2), Tom Cole(2), Bennett(2), George Romney(2), Richard Lugar, Lugar, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Powell, Rice, Gerald R. Ford, former president, Olympia Snowe, Frank R. Wolf, George V. Voinovich, Jim McCrery, Jeane Kirkpatrick, John Engler, Howard Baker, Dole, Buck McKeon, Mike Castle, Margaret Spellings, House Republican, Anderson, Gonzales, Bill Frist, Pete Domenici, Domenici, commander in chief, Dwight Eisenhower, Republican administration, president, the President, Libby, McConnell, Rudolph Giuliani, Eisenhower, Nixon, Paul O'Neill, O'Neill, Ford administration, Susan Schwab, George H.W. Bush, Gingrich, Bob Michel, Republican Congress, Pat Buchanan, Michael K. Deaver, Heather Wilson, Pete Sessions, R-, National Republican Congressional Committee, Robert Bennett, Shelley Moore Capito, Mike Leavitt, Bobby Jindal, Haley Barbour, Republican National Committee, Bob Riley, Charlie Crist, Jeb Bush, Judd Gregg, Hank Paulson, Paulson, Frank Wolf
Negative Republican 358 Bush(54), Republicans(39), Republican(27), the president(19), Romney(14), Cheney(13), President Bush(12), White House(11), administration(11), Bush administration(9), Stockman(8), McCain(8), Giuliani(7), GOP(5), George Bush(5), Alberto Gonzales(5), Gonzales(5), Thompson(5), Vice President Cheney(4), Karl Rove(4), president(4), Rove(4), vice president(3), Reagan(3), George W. Bush(3), Huckabee(3), Libby(3), executive branch(2), Republican administration(2), Republican Congress(2), congressional Republicans(2), Don Rumsfeld(2), Rudy Giuliani(2), John McCain(2), Mitt Romney(2), Republican Party(2), House Republicans(2), Tom Tancredo(2), Ron Paul(2), Fred Thompson(2), Keyes(2), Robert Gates, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Nixon, The president, Senate Republicans, Pete Domenici, Heather Wilson, John Ashcroft, David Stockman, Ronald Reagan, Republican White House, Paul Wolfowitz, Rudolph Giuliani, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Richard Armitage, Jim DeMint, DeMint, Jeff Sessions, Schwarzenegger, Bush presidency, Scooter Libby, Mitch McConnell, Mel Martinez, Alphonso Jackson, Cabinet, Tommy Thompson, Nixonian, Duke Cunningham, Railsback, Dennis Hastert, National Republican Congressional Committee, George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, presidency, Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich, President Ronald Reagan, Fletcher, Duncan Hunter, Tancredo, Alan Keyes, Dick Cheney
Neutral Republican 593Republican(91), Republicans(66), Bush(60), Romney(42), President Bush(30), the president(22), McCain(21), GOP(16), White House(15), Mitt Romney(13), Fred Thompson(13), John McCain(10), Thompson(9), administration(8), Giuliani(8), Rove(8), Mike Huckabee(7), Bush administration(7), Rudy Giuliani(6), Reagan(6), Schwarzenegger(6), Cheney(6), Huckabee(5), The president(4), George W. Bush(4), Rudolph Giuliani(3), Tommy Thompson(3), Republican National Committee(3), Jim Gilmore(3), Republican Party(3), McConnell(3), Ronald Reagan(3), R-(3), George Romney(2), Sam Brownback(2), Ron Paul(2), Chuck Hagel(2), Newt Gingrich(2), Stockman(2), George Bush(2), Libby(2), Dick Cheney(2), Alexander(2), Leavitt(2), Republicanism(2), Michel(2), George H.W. Bush(2), Buchanan(2), commander in chief, Richard Nixon, Trent Lott, Robert Gates, Vice President Cheney, Roy Blunt, Mel Martinez, David Stockman, Michael Bloomberg, Bob Dole, Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Gonzales, congressional Republicans, Henry Paulson, Susan Schwab, Henry Kissinger, Armitage, DeMint, Sessions, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cabinet, executive branch, House Republican, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Goldwater, Matt Blunt, Don Carcieri, Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, Jon Huntsman, Mike Rounds, Sonny Perdue, Mark Sanford, Mike Leavitt, Tom Railsback, Robert Michel, Gingrich, LaHood, president, Rovism, Lee Atwater, Atwater, Ken Starr, Michael Leavitt, Frank Wolf, Wolf, Mike Castle, Condoleezza Rice, Ernie Fletcher, Fletcher, Mitt, the Romneys, Reagan administration, House Republicans



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
What Presidents Must Know
30 December 2007
804 37 3D+: Bill Bradley, Bradley, Bradley
4D=, 1R=
The Speaker's Grand Illusion
27 December 2007
873 30 2D+: Democratic, Democrats
13D-: Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Democrats, Pelosi, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democrats
1R+: the president
3R-: Republican, Republicans, Republicans
4D=, 6R=
Obama Finds His Address
23 December 2007
884 48 11D+: Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Edwards, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
2D-: Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton
2R-: George Bush, Dick Cheney
8D=
Taking a Turn for the Weird
20 December 2007
942 10 4D+: Obama, Hillary Clinton, Clinton, Obama
5R+: Fred Thompson, Thompson, John McCain, McCain, McCain
5R-: Alan Keyes, Huckabee, Keyes, President Bush, Keyes
16D=, 11R=
Contrast Before the Caucuses
16 December 2007
921 0 3D+: Clinton, Clinton, Chris Dodd
2D-: John Edwards, Barack Obama
1R+: Fred Thompson
14D=, 17R=
Obama's Oprah Jackpot
13 December 2007
815 67 8D+: Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Barack Obama
4D=
Like Father, Like Son
9 December 2007
884 35 1D+: John Kennedy
8R+: George Romney, Republican, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, George Romney, Mitt Romney, Romney, Romney
11R=
Openings in an Altered World
5 December 2007
809 34 3R+: Bush, Bush, administration
2D=, 4R=
Principles Amid the GOP Pack
2 December 2007
890 24 16R+: John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, McCain, Huckabee, McCain, Huckabee, McCain, McCain, Huckabee, Huckabee, McCain, McCain, Huckabee, Huckabee
8R-: Giuliani, Romney, Fred Thompson, Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, Duncan Hunter, Tancredo, Romney
9R=
Mr. Nasty vs. Mr. Nice
29 November 2007
978 3 2D-: Bill Clinton, Democrats
3R+: Giuliani, Romney, Reagan
6R-: Fred Thompson, Giuliani, Giuliani, Romney, Romney, Romney
3D=, 18R=
Obama vs. the Icon
25 November 2007
1067 16 10D+: Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
5D-: Obama, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn, Barack
17D=
Three Words For the Next President
22 November 2007
821 26 4D+: Peter Hart, Democratic, Democrats, Hart
1D-: Democrats
1R+: Republicans
2R-: Republicans, President Bush
3D=, 4R=
Debates in Need of Rescue
18 November 2007
890 9 1D+: Richardson
3D-: Hillary Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, Richardson
17D=, 1R=
The Icebergs Ahead For the Democrats
15 November 2007
945 31 2D+: Democrat, Clinton administration
13D-: Democrats, Democratic Congress, Eliot Spitzer, Spitzer, Spitzer, Clinton, former president, Bill Clinton, first lady, Democrats, the president, first lady , former president
2R-: Republican, Republicans
10D=, 2R=
Labor's New Recruits
11 November 2007
904 53 5D+: Democrats, Democrats, Beshear, Democratic, Democratic
3R-: President Ronald Reagan, Republican, Fletcher
3D=, 4R=
For a Neighbor, a Worrisome Drama in Pakistan
8 November 2007
749 67 2R-: Bush administration, President Bush
1R=
A Can't-Miss Event for the Next President
30 October 2007
1093 10 7D+: Kent Conrad, Democratic, Conrad, Conrad, Conrad, Democratic, Jim Cooper
2D-: Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi
11R+: Judd Gregg, Republican, Hank Paulson, Gregg, Paulson, White House, Gregg, Gregg, Gregg, Republican, Frank Wolf
2R-: Vice President Cheney, Cheney
12D=, 10R=
For the GOP, a New Breed of Governor
28 October 2007
884 62 5D+: Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, John Breaux, Democrats
3D-: Democrats, Democratic, Kathleen Blanco
21R+: GOP, Bobby Jindal, Jindal, Jindal, Republican, Jindal, Jindal, Jindal, Jindal, Jindal, Jindal, Republicans, Haley Barbour, Republican National Committee, Republicans, Bob Riley, Sonny Perdue, Charlie Crist, Republican, Jeb Bush, Jindal
2D=
Trying Times for the Obama Faithful
25 October 2007
957 22 8D+: Clinton, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Clinton, Obama, Clinton, Clinton, Obama
2D-: Obama, Obama
16D=, 1R=
Leavitt's Healthy Vision
21 October 2007
819 63 2D+: Hillary Clinton, Democratic
12R+: Leavitt, Leavitt, the president, Leavitt, Leavitt, Leavitt, Leavitt, Fred Thompson, Leavitt, Leavitt, Mike Leavitt, Leavitt
2R=
Help That Hits Home
18 October 2007
895 1 4D+: Barney Frank, Democratic, Maxine Waters, Wyden
1D-: Chris Dodd
3R+: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican, Bennett
3D=, 6R=
A Market Makeover For Health Insurance
14 October 2007
873 1 3D+: Democratic, Ron Wyden, Wyden
1D-: Democratic
4R+: Republican, Robert Bennett, John McCain, Bennett
2R-: Newt Gingrich, Bush administration
1D=
Another Voice in the Choir
11 October 2007
955 32 2D-: President Clinton, Clinton
15R+: John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Giuliani, Giuliani, McCain, Thompson, Romney, McCain, Giuliani, Thompson, Mike Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee
6R-: Tom Tancredo, Ron Paul, Republicans, President Bush, Thompson, Republicans
2D=, 9R=
Why Is This GOP Strategist Smiling?
7 October 2007
1025 24 3D+: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrats, Bill Clinton
7D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, House Democratic, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, Democrats
16R+: GOP, Tom Cole, Cole, Cole, Cole, Cole, Cole, Cole, Republicans, Bush, Cole, Republicans, National Republican Congressional Committee, Tom Cole, Cole, Cole
9R-: Republicans, Rudy Giuliani, President Bush, congressional Republicans, Republicans, Bush, Republicans, Republicans, Bush
3D=, 8R=
Dreams Of Cubs Nation
4 October 2007
813 40 1D-: Mondale
1R+: Reagan
1D=, 2R=
Clinton's Game of Dodgeball
30 September 2007
932 22 2D+: Clinton, Biden
8D-: Clinton, Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Richardson, Gravel, Edwards, Clinton
15D=, 2R=
Following Bush Over a Cliff
27 September 2007
916 33 7R+: Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Sonny Perdue, Heather Wilson, Ray LaHood, Pete Sessions, R-
16R-: Bush, House Republicans, White House, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Republican, Bush, House Republicans, White House, Republicans, Republicans, Bush administration, Bush, GOP
1D=, 3R=
Breaking Through to Voters
23 September 2007
804 0 1D=, 1R=
Lindsey Graham's Realism
16 September 2007
901 76 2D-: Barbara Boxer, Harry Reid
16R+: Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham, Graham, Republican, Graham, Graham, Graham, Graham, Graham, Graham, Graham, Graham, Graham, Graham, Graham, Graham
2R-: Rumsfeld, the president
1R=
Romney's Master Plan
13 September 2007
947 0 1D+: Democratic
7R+: Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Romney, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Romney
6R-: Romney, Romney, Republican, Bush administration, Republicans, Thompson
18R=
McCain Finds His Footing
9 September 2007
1065 16 2D+: Democratic, Barack Obama
1D-: Ted Kennedy
20R+: McCain, John McCain, Thompson, Thompson, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, Mike Huckabee, McCain, McCain, Huckabee, McCain, John McCain, McCain, McCain
11R-: George W. Bush, McCain, McCain, McCain, Romney, Don Rumsfeld, McCain, President Bush, Thompson, Romney, Giuliani
1D=, 15R=
The Making of the Front-Runner
6 September 2007
886 10 3D+: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary, Hillary
1D-: White House
12D=, 3R=
Rove Unrepentant
23 August 2007
998 4 3D+: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Max Cleland, Democrats
1D-: Democratic
12R+: Rove, Republican, GOP, Rove, Bush, Republican, Republicans, Republican, Michael K. Deaver, Ronald Reagan, the president, Reagan
8R-: Rove, Karl Rove, Rove, Republican Party, Rove, presidency, Republican Congress, Rove
5D=, 23R=
The Next Huckabee Surprise?
19 August 2007
860 29 4D+: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Paul Tsongas, Clinton
1D-: Tsongas
15R+: Huckabee, Mike Huckabee, Pat Buchanan, Huckabee, Huckabee, Romney, Huckabee, Buchanan, Buchanan, Buchanan, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee
2R-: George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole
1D=, 12R=
Fred Thompson's Gamble
16 August 2007
889 53 1D-: Democrats
9R+: Fred Thompson, Fred Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson
2R-: the president, Republicans
3R=
Hugging Bush (at Least Through the Primaries)
8 August 2007
989 2 1D+: Democrats
3D-: Johnson, Humphrey, Humphrey
5R+: administration, Bush, Reagan, Bush, Richard Nixon
6R-: Republican, Bush, Cheney, administration, Bush, Reagan
6D=, 30R=
A Polarized, and Polarizing, Congress
5 August 2007
942 9 2D+: President Bill Clinton, Democrats
3D-: House Democratic, House Democratic, Democratic
6R+: Republican Congress, Republican, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Republicans, Republican
9R-: President Bush, Bush, the president, Republican, Dennis Hastert, Republican, National Republican Congressional Committee, Bush, Republicans
1D=, 3R=
A Setback For Civility
2 August 2007
1023 21 8D+: Democratic, David Obey, Democratic, Democrats, Rahm Emanuel, Dick Durbin, Barack Obama, Steny Hoyer
1D-: President Bill Clinton
22R+: Ray LaHood, LaHood, LaHood, GOP, LaHood, Gingrich, LaHood, LaHood, LaHood, LaHood, Bob Michel, LaHood, Michel, LaHood, LaHood, Republican, LaHood, Michel, LaHood, Michel, Michel, Ray LaHood
5R-: Duke Cunningham, Republican Party, Republican, Railsback, GOP
1D=, 13R=
A Useful Health Debate
29 July 2007
867 19 2D+: congressional Democrats, Democrats
3R+: the president, Leavitt, Republican
6R-: Bush, Nixonian, Bush, Bush, Republican, Bush
6D=, 9R=
The Governors Stay on the Fence
26 July 2007
1073 14 8D+: Vice President Al Gore, John Baldacci, Democrat, Kathleen Sebelius, Democrat, Democrat, Ed Rendell, Ed Rendell
2D-: Richardson, Gore
1R+: George W. Bush
4R-: Romney, Huckabee, Tommy Thompson, Bush
28D=, 21R=
Urban America's Moment
22 July 2007
889 64 12D+: Democratic, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Edwards, Obama, Clinton, Henry Cisneros, Democratic, Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards
3D-: Vice President Al Gore, Andrew Cuomo, Gore
5R-: George Bush, Mel Martinez, Alphonso Jackson, Cabinet, the president
1D=, 1R=
The McGovern Landslide
19 July 2007
978 21 19D+: George McGovern, McGovern, Democratic Party, Democratic Party, Bill Clinton, McGovern, McGovern, Gary Hart, McGovern, McGovern, McGovern, McGovern, Democratic, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Lyndon Johnson, McGovern, McGovern, Lady Bird
3D-: McGovern, Democrats, McGovern
7R+: Bob Dole, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Goldwater, John McCain, Goldwater
8D=, 4R=
Arizona's Border Burden
8 July 2007
831 17 6D+: Napolitano, Napolitano, Napolitano, Napolitano, Napolitano, Napolitano
3R+: John McCain, McCain, McCain
6D=, 2R=
A Mob-Rule Moment
5 July 2007
888 10 2D+: Harry Reid, Democratic
1D-: Democratic
3R+: Thompson, Bush administration, Susan Schwab
4R-: Thompson, president, Mitch McConnell, Republicans
2D=, 7R=
A Victory For Free Speech
1 July 2007
827 0 1D-: Feingold
1R-: McCain
6D=, 3R=
Cheney Unbound
28 June 2007
963 40 7R+: Lamar Alexander, Alexander, Eisenhower, Nixon, Paul O'Neill, O'Neill, Ford administration
25R-: Cheney, Cheney, White House, vice president, White House, Cheney, the president, Scooter Libby, Cheney, Cheney, vice president, Cheney, the president, Bush, Cheney, White House, Cheney, the president, Bush administration, the president, the president, Cheney, Cheney, Bush, White House
13R=
Ready for Bloomberg?
24 June 2007
973 11 2D+: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Clinton
1D-: Clinton
6R+: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Rudolph Giuliani, Giuliani
3R-: Bush presidency, Republican, Giuliani
3D=, 4R=
Schwarzenegger's Post-Partisanship in Peril?
21 June 2007
917 25 1D+: Democrats
4D-: Nancy Pelosi, Democrats, Democratic, Gray Davis
3R+: Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger
1R-: Schwarzenegger
3D=, 8R=
The Immigration Bill In Harry Reid's Court
14 June 2007
1028 6 3D+: Democratic, Ted Kennedy, Democratic
11D-: Harry Reid, Democrats, Harry Reid, Reid, Reid, Reid, Reid, Reid, Reid, Democratic, Reid
4R+: Mitch McConnell, McConnell, Republicans, White House
9R-: Republicans, Republicans, Jim DeMint, Republican, Alberto Gonzales, DeMint, Jeff Sessions, Republicans, Republicans
9D=, 13R=
Judge Walton's Lesson
10 June 2007
879 29 2R+: Rove, Libby
7R-: I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney, Libby, Richard Armitage, Karl Rove, Libby, Libby
8R=
Candidates Lacking A Real-World Clue
7 June 2007
909 2 2D+: Democrats, Joe Biden
9D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Clinton, Obama, Democrats, Democrats
3R+: President Bush, John McCain, the president
9R-: Republicans, Republicans, President Bush, Bush, Rudolph Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Romney, Giuliani
3D=, 3R=
A Route To Better Health Care
3 June 2007
860 1 3D+: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards
3R+: Bush administration, Tommy Thompson, Mike Huckabee
4D=, 4R=
A Small Way to Say Thanks?
27 May 2007
912 1 6D+: Carol Shea-Porter, Democrat, Shea-Porter, John F. Kerry, Kerry, Kerry
2D-: Shea-Porter, Democrats
7R+: White House, the President, White House, the president, administration, administration, White House
3R-: president, administration, administration
8D=, 4R=
Two Long Shots Liven Up a Race
24 May 2007
973 21 11D+: Bill Richardson, Richardson, Democratic, Richardson, John F. Kennedy, Richardson, Richardson, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Richardson
3D-: Bill Clinton, Clinton, John Edwards
7R+: Mike Huckabee, Huckabee, Republican, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee
9R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Alberto Gonzales, administration, Huckabee, Republican, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney
9D=, 8R=
Western Allies In the Twilight
20 May 2007
826 36 4R+: Bush, president, Bush, Bush
9R-: George Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, president, Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Alberto Gonzales, administration
1R=
Can Democrats Take Yes for an Answer?
17 May 2007
916 6 8D+: Charles Rangel, Sander Levin, Levin, Levin, Levin, Levin, Rahm Emanuel, Emanuel
3D-: Democrats, Democratic Congress, Democratic Party
4R+: Schwab, Schwab, Republicans, Republican administration
1R-: Bush
8D=, 7R=
No Way to Choose a President
10 May 2007
832 0 2D=, 4R=
A War The Public Will End
6 May 2007
855 22 1D+: Democrats
2D-: Democratic-controlled Congress, Democrats
4R+: President Bush, commander in chief, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon
1R-: Republicans
5D=, 5R=
Thankless Bipartisanship
3 May 2007
940 35 6D+: Jeff Bingaman, Democrats, Bingaman, Democrats, Hamilton, Hamilton
18R+: Lamar Alexander, Alexander, Alexander, Alexander, Pete Domenici, Alexander, administration, Alexander, Domenici, Alexander, Alexander, Alexander, Republicans, Alexander, Bush, Baker, Baker, Alexander
2R-: the president, Bush
4R=
Straight Talking Again
27 April 2007
1030 2 1D-: President Bill Clinton
9R+: John McCain, Bush, GOP, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, John McCain
9R-: Bush, Bush, the president, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, the president, McCain, Bush
1D=, 21R=
The Democrats' Gonzales
26 April 2007
962 43 19D-: Democrats, Democrats, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, D-, Harry Reid, Bill Clinton, Democratic, Harry Reid, Senate Democrats, Reid, Reid, Reid, Reid, Reid, Reid, Reid, Democrats, Harry Reid
5R+: President Bush, Bill Frist, Frist, Frist, White House
6R-: Gonzales, Alberto Gonzales, Republicans, President Bush, administration, Gonzales
8D=, 3R=
On Campus, A Wary Sadness
22 April 2007
789 0
The Media in the Mud
19 April 2007
849 0
Democrats' Welcome Discipline
15 April 2007
935 78 18D+: Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Kent Conrad, John Spratt, Spratt, Spratt, Pelosi, House Democrats, Spratt, Spratt, Democrats, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Spratt, Democrats, Pelosi, Spratt
1D-: Democrats
1R+: President Bush
5R-: Republican, Republicans, Republicans, George Bush, Republicans
1D=, 1R=
Time for A Bargain On the War
10 April 2007
923 8 3D+: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
2D-: John Kerry, Democratic
3R+: Bush, George Bush, George Bush
7D=, 10R=
New Scorecard for A Republican Scramble
8 April 2007
989 7 2R+: Thompson, Tommy Thompson
5R-: Thompson, McCain, Republicans, McCain, Giuliani
1D=, 33R=
A Dubious Electoral Idea
5 April 2007
877 36 9D+: Birch Bayh, Democratic, Bayh, Evan Bayh, Martin O'Malley, Bayh, Bayh, Democrats, Al Gore
3R+: Republican, John B. Anderson, Republicans
1R-: George W. Bush
5D=, 1R=
Presidential Spring Training
1 April 2007
942 0 7D+: Democrats, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Biden, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Clinton, Biden
6D-: Howard Dean, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
1R+: John McCain
5D=, 8R=
When the Woodshed Isn't Enough
29 March 2007
1010 46 2D+: Moynihan, Democrats
6R+: John B. Anderson, House Republican, Stockman, Anderson, Stockman, Gonzales
24R-: Alberto Gonzales, David Stockman, Ronald Reagan, Stockman, Bush, Gonzales, congressional Republicans, Stockman, Stockman, Stockman, Reagan, administration, Stockman, Gonzales, Stockman, Reagan, Stockman, Stockman, president, Gonzales, Bush, Bush, Don Rumsfeld, Republican White House
2D=, 9R=
An Opening for Democrats
25 March 2007
934 56 5D+: Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
2D-: Democrats, Democrats
13R-: Republican, GOP, Bush administration, GOP, Karl Rove, George Bush, GOP, Republicans, Republican, Republicans, Bush, Republican administration, Republicans
5D=, 4R=
Battling the 'No Child' Backlash
22 March 2007
835 19 5D+: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ted Kennedy, George Miller, Democrats, Democratic
3R+: Buck McKeon, Mike Castle, Margaret Spellings
2R-: Republican, Republicans
10R=
Congress's Oversight Offensive
18 March 2007
981 77 8D+: Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Hoyer, Democratic, Waxman
21R-: President Bush, Senate Republicans, administration, White House, Republican, White House, Karl Rove, White House, Bush administration, the president, Republican, executive branch, Republican, Republican administration, Republican Congress, executive branch, Republican, Pete Domenici, Heather Wilson, Bush, John Ashcroft
7D=, 2R=
Reports of the GOP's Death . . .
15 March 2007
912 5 2D+: Democrats, Democrats
1D-: Democrats
5R+: GOP, George W. Bush, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, President Bush
6R-: Republican, Republicans, Republican, The president, administration, Republican
2D=, 20R=
The Fading Freedom Mission
11 March 2007
829 50 3D+: Penn, Schoen, Democratic
2D-: Democrats, Democrats
6R-: Bush, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Vice President Cheney, Bush
3R=
'Common Ground' Caucus Four Leaders Seek Ideas -- and Civility
8 March 2007
835 14 9D+: Democrats, Democratic, George Mitchell, Tom Daschle, Daschle, Daschle, Daschle, Mitchell, Mitchell
1D-: Democrats
6R+: Republicans, GOP, Howard Baker, Bob Dole, Baker, Dole
1R-: Republicans
1D=, 1R=
Growing A Third Party
25 February 2007
866 2 5D+: Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Democrats
5R+: Republican, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, GOP
2D=, 2R=
No Way to Elect a President
22 February 2007
867 0 3D+: Reid, Mo Udall, Jimmy Carter
3D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
5D=, 3R=
Bush Regains His Footing
16 February 2007
902 38 2D+: Clinton, Clinton
5D-: President Bill Clinton, Democrats, Democrats, congressional Democrats, Democrats
8R+: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Bush, Bush, Bush
2R-: Bush, Vice President Cheney
2D=, 5R=
Where Candidates Start
15 February 2007
959 9 5D+: Ted Kennedy, Democrats, Tom Vilsack, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton
3D-: Shannon O'Brien, Edwards, John Kerry
2R+: John Engler, George W. Bush
3R-: Romney, Republican, Romney
7D=, 12R=
Happy Talk In Bush's Budget
11 February 2007
938 56 5D+: Jim Cooper, Democratic, Cooper, Cooper, Robert Drinan
1D-: Congressional Democrats
3R+: Bush, Bush, Jeane Kirkpatrick
12R-: Bush, Bush administration, the president, the president, the president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, White House, Bush, Nixon
2R=
The Other Democrats Weigh In
6 February 2007
963 11 6D+: John Edwards, Bill Richardson, Edwards, Richardson, Richardson, Obama
3D-: Gen. Wesley Clark, Mike Gravel, Obama
1R-: President Bush
24D=, 2R=
Health Coverage's Momentum
4 February 2007
946 23 6D+: Democratic, Democrats, Democratic, Ron Wyden, Democratic, Barack Obama
1D-: the Clintons
11R+: Republican, Mitt Romney, Republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, President Bush, Jim McCrery, Republican, the president, Republican, Romney
1R-: Romney
2D=, 2R=
Deficit Day Of Reckoning?
1 February 2007
875 6 8D+: Democratic, Nancy Pelosi, Harry M. Reid, John M. Spratt Jr., Kent Conrad, David R. Obey, Obey, Richard Bolling
9R+: Republicans, White House, the president, White House, the president, the president, Republicans, Frank R. Wolf, George V. Voinovich
3D=, 4R=
Clinton's Presidential Posturing
28 January 2007
942 26 1D+: Clinton
6D-: Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton
2R+: John McCain, McCain
2R-: Republican, the president
3D=, 5R=
Senate Firefighters
25 January 2007
967 16 7D+: Harry Reid, Democrats, Democrat, Democratic, Mary Landrieu, Landrieu, Landrieu
12R+: Mitch McConnell, Bush, Olympia Snowe, Republican, Lamar Alexander, Snowe, Alexander, Alexander, Alexander, Snowe, Snowe, Alexander
1R-: Republicans
2D=, 5R=
A Chance For Unity On Iraq
21 January 2007
848 0 1R+: John McCain
1R-: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
2D=, 4R=
Anatomy of a Wrong Approach
18 January 2007
885 71 12R-: Cheney, vice president, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Robert Gates, the president, Bush, administration, the president
5R=
The Big Gambit In Iraq
14 January 2007
906 6 1D+: Lee Hamilton
3R+: Bush, James A. Baker III, Bush
1R-: Bush
1D=, 13R=
Where '100 Hours' Will Hit the Brakes
11 January 2007
944 50 15D+: Richard Durbin, Durbin, House Democratic, Durbin, Durbin, Tom Foley, Durbin, Durbin, Democratic, Durbin, Durbin, Durbin, Durbin, Ron Wyden, Durbin
1R-: Republicans
12D=, 4R=
The Ebb of Prejudice
7 January 2007
942 27 21D+: Nancy Pelosi, Deval Patrick, Pelosi, Patrick, Pelosi, Patrick, Pelosi, Patrick, Pelosi, Sala Burton, Pelosi, Democratic, Patrick, Pelosi, Patrick, Democrats, Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright, David Obey, Obey, Democrat
11R+: Republicans, President Bush, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Powell, Rice, Gerald R. Ford, Ford, Ford, former president, Ford
1D=, 2R=
Suggester in Chief
4 January 2007
866 9 1D+: Lee Hamilton
3R+: James A. Baker III, Richard Lugar, Lugar
4R-: Bush, Bush, White House, Republican
4D=, 10R=