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The absurdity of partisanship
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George F. Will
Washington Post

Columns 32
Words 30354
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 0.00
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 1.85
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 0.92
Democratic Index -15.57
Republican Index -10.96
Positive Index 20.82
Negative Index 34.15
Neutral Index 45.03



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 82 Obama(13), Rangel(12), Democratic(8), Democrats(7), Moynihan(6), Barack Obama(5), Hillary Clinton(3), Democrat(3), FDR(3), Strickland(3), Franklin Roosevelt(2), Pat Moynihan(2), Charles Rangel, Lyndon Johnson, President Lyndon Johnson, Feingold, Antonio Villaraigosa, Clinton, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Sherrod Brown, Ted Strickland, Sam Nunn, Nunn, Roosevelt, Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Negative Democratic 141 Democrats(21), Clinton(16), Democratic(12), Obama(12), Edwards(10), the Clintons(10), Hillary Clinton(6), Feingold(6), John Edwards(4), Democratic Party(3), Clintonian(3), Barack Obama(3), Stevenson(3), Lyndon Johnson(2), Bill Clinton(2), The Clintons(2), John Kerry(2), Bill(2), Kerry(2), Russ Feingold, Clintonness, Harris, Clintons, Clintonisms, Clintoniana, Pelosi, John Nance Garner, Henry Wallace, Alben Barkley, John Sparkman, Estes Kefauver, Al Gore, Vice President Al Gore, Gore, President Bill Clinton, Adlai Stevenson, Democrat, Michelle Obama, Jimmy Carter
Neutral Democratic 156Obama(30), Democrats(19), Clinton(19), Democratic(13), Kerry(8), Barack Obama(7), Edwards(6), Hillary Clinton(4), Stevenson(3), Democratic Party(2), administration(2), the Clintons(2), Lyndon Johnson(2), Bill Clinton(2), Charlie Rangel, Rangel, Tom Harkin, Bob Kerrey, Paul Tsongas, Jerry Brown, Franklin Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Kent Conrad, Tim Johnson, Claire McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Gary Hart, Jim Doyle, Tim Kaine, Janet Napolitano, John Kerry, Bob Shrum, Shrum, Ted Kennedy, Kennedy, Fred Harris, John Edwards, Harris, Feingold, Nancy Pelosi, Ed Rendell, FDR, Nunn, Roosevelt, William Proxmire, Democrat, Johnson, Al Gore, Michael Dukakis, Gore, Dukakis
Positive Republican 71 Bush(12), McCain(7), Romney(7), Goldwater(5), Ronald Reagan(4), Republicans(4), Republican(3), Coburn(3), Mitt Romney(2), George W. Bush(2), John McCain(2), Crist(2), Senate Republicans(2), Reaganite, Barry Goldwater, Reagan, Tom Coburn, the president, Jeb Bush, Haley Barbour, Reagan White House, Barbour, Pawlenty, Mitch McConnell, Republican Party, Reagan administration, Ron Paul, George Bush, Jeane Kirkpatrick
Negative Republican 110 McCain(44), Huckabee(12), Republicans(12), Young(8), Mike Huckabee(4), John McCain(4), Republican Party(3), Republican(3), administration(2), Richard Nixon, Nixon, Barry Goldwater, Bush, Fred Thompson, Harold Stassen, Rudy Giuliani, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, GOP, Don Young, Jack Abramoff, House Republicans, Robert Taft, Bill Miller, Spiro Agnew, Mike DeWine, Goldwater
Neutral Republican 175McCain(50), Republicans(18), Republican(16), Bush(10), John McCain(8), Huckabee(7), Mitt Romney(7), President Bush(4), Mike Huckabee(3), Rudy Giuliani(3), GOP(3), Barry Goldwater(3), Thompson(3), the president(3), Reagan(3), Ford(3), Romney(2), Ronald Reagan(2), Republican Party(2), Schweiker(2), Powell(2), Reaganite, McCainiac, Giuliani, George W. Bush, President Ronald Reagan, Connie Mack, Mack, Reagan administration, Richard Schweiker, President Gerald Ford, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Colin Powell, Charlie Crist, Barbour, Mark Sanford, Sanford, Tim Pawlenty, Richard Nixon, Bush administration, Goldwater, Vice President George Bush



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
A Pastor at Center Stage
29 April 2008
919 3 3D-: Barack Obama, Obama, Obama
2R+: McCain, Republicans
3R-: John McCain, Goldwater, McCain
7D=, 4R=
Education Lessons We Left Behind
24 April 2008
820 75 7D+: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Moynihan, Moynihan, Moynihan, Moynihan, Moynihan, Moynihan
1D-: Jimmy Carter
What The Fed's Job Isn't
20 April 2008
854 21 1D-: Democrats
1R-: Republicans
2D=
Candidate on a High Horse
15 April 2008
972 50 5D+: Franklin Roosevelt, FDR, Roosevelt, FDR, Democrat
19D-: Barack Obama, Obama, Adlai Stevenson, Democratic, Stevenson, Democratic, Democrat, Stevenson, Obama, Stevenson, Michelle Obama, Obama, Obama, Democrats, Obama, Obama, Obama, Democrats, Democrats
2R+: Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ronald Reagan
6D=, 1R=
Horrors of a 'Crisis'
13 April 2008
829 100 1D-: President Bill Clinton
McCain's Housing Restraint
6 April 2008
900 28 4D-: Democrats, Clinton, Obama, Obama
4R+: McCain, John McCain, Senate Republicans, McCain
2R-: administration, McCain
4D=, 4R=
The Mogul Who Bet On Vegas
3 April 2008
860 0
An 8-Letter Word for the Ultimate Sport
30 March 2008
909 0
Bleeding Hearts but Tight Fists
27 March 2008
944 68 5D-: John Kerry, Democrats, Kerry, Vice President Al Gore, Gore
4R+: George Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
2D=, 2R=
Bargain Basement Judiciary
23 March 2008
855 100 1D-: Lyndon Johnson
Dance Police at The Saloon
20 March 2008
911 100 2D-: Democrats, Democrats
2R+: Reagan administration, Ron Paul
Arizona's Booster Socialism
16 March 2008
881 50 3R+: Goldwater, Goldwater, Goldwater
1R-: John McCain
Running-Mate Math
13 March 2008
1070 14 10D+: Sherrod Brown, Democratic, Democratic, Ted Strickland, Strickland, Democrat, Strickland, Sam Nunn, Nunn, Strickland
8D-: John Nance Garner, Henry Wallace, Alben Barkley, John Sparkman, Estes Kefauver, Al Gore, Kerry, Democratic
2R+: George W. Bush, Bush
5R-: Bill Miller, Spiro Agnew, Republican Party, Republican, Mike DeWine
12D=, 6R=
In Cuba, Ignorance In Amber
6 March 2008
870 67 2D+: FDR, Pat Moynihan
1D=
A Life Athwart History
29 February 2008
927 50 4R+: Ronald Reagan, Republican Party, Goldwater, Goldwater
1R-: Robert Taft
1R=
McCain in A Glass House
28 February 2008
1012 50 5D-: Feingold, Democrats, Feingold, Barack Obama, Democrats
4R+: Republican, Senate Republicans, Republican, Mitch McConnell
23R-: McCain, administration, John McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain
1D=, 3R=
The Running Mate McCain Needs
24 February 2008
1070 10 1D-: Feingold
9R+: Bush, Crist, Crist, Jeb Bush, Haley Barbour, Reagan White House, Republicans, Barbour, Pawlenty
4R-: McCain, Republican Party, McCain, McCain
6D=, 37R=
Playing the 'Fair' Card
21 February 2008
917 25 1D+: Nancy Pelosi
5D-: Hillary Clinton, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Clinton
10D=
Questions For John McCain
17 February 2008
971 2 2D+: Democrats, Joe Biden
5D-: Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Pelosi, Democratic
1R+: McCain
2R-: McCain, McCain
6D=, 11R=
Howlers, Whoops And Miracles
14 February 2008
988 10 2D+: Barack Obama, Obama
8D-: the Clintons, Hillary Clinton, Clintonian, Clintonisms, Clinton, Clinton, Clintoniana, Democrats
4R+: Ronald Reagan, McCain, McCain, the president
4R-: Mike Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee
5D=, 13R=
The Road To a GOP Minority
10 February 2008
987 46 5R+: Tom Coburn, Republican, Coburn, Coburn, Coburn
18R-: GOP, Republican, Don Young, Republicans, Young, Republicans, Young, Young, Young, Young, Young, Young, Young, Jack Abramoff, House Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans
5R=
Democrats Living Dangerously
7 February 2008
1010 0 2D+: Barack Obama, Obama
8D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, John Edwards, Democratic Party, Obama
1R+: Republicans
4R-: Rudy Giuliani, McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger
6D=, 12R=
Investors We Need Not Fear
3 February 2008
859 0 1R=
Staying The Coarse
29 January 2008
1028 30 5D+: Bill Clinton, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
19D-: Edwards, Harris, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, the Clintons, Democrats, the Clintons, the Clintons, Clinton, Bill, Clinton, the Clintons, Clintonian, Clinton, Clinton, the Clintons, Bill, Clintons, Clinton
7R+: Reagan, Mitt Romney, Romney, Romney, Romney, Romney, Romney
4R-: John McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain
9D=, 6R=
Fairness On the Ballot
27 January 2008
850 0 2D+: Democratic, Democratic
2D-: Democrats, Democrats
1D=
Primary Shake-Ups and Shakeouts
22 January 2008
1056 0 8D+: Hillary Clinton, Antonio Villaraigosa, Democrat, Pat Moynihan, Obama, Obama, Obama, Clinton
10D-: the Clintons, Clintonness, Clinton, Clinton, Clintonian, the Clintons, The Clintons, John Edwards, Edwards, Edwards
4R+: Republicans, John McCain, Romney, Romney
5R-: Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, Harold Stassen, Huckabee, McCain
14D=, 13R=
Waiting for Straight Talk
20 January 2008
1055 16 1D+: Feingold
6D-: Russ Feingold, Feingold, John Edwards, Feingold, Feingold, Democratic Party
1R+: McCain
9R-: McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain
12D=, 16R=
Misstep in a Liberal Minefield
17 January 2008
1050 34 5D+: President Lyndon Johnson, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
10D-: Hillary Clinton, Clinton, Bill Clinton, Clinton, the Clintons, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic, Clinton
7R+: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
1R-: Bush
19D=
A GOP Numbers Crunch
13 January 2008
1091 31 11D+: Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Democratic, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson
2D-: Hillary Clinton, Democratic
2R+: Mitt Romney, Bush
12R-: Republican Party, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Republican, Barry Goldwater, McCain, McCain, Mike Huckabee
12D=, 20R=
Start of a Marathon
10 January 2008
959 2 3D+: Democratic, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
4D-: Clinton, the Clintons, Bill Clinton, The Clintons
1R-: Huckabee
14D=, 10R=
Iowa's Histrionic Hucksters
6 January 2008
989 20 1D+: Barack Obama
10D-: John Edwards, Edwards, Lyndon Johnson, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Clinton, Edwards
1R+: Barry Goldwater
10R-: Mike Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Richard Nixon, Nixon, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee
2D=, 6R=
Mr. Ways and Means
3 January 2008
941 30 15D+: Charles Rangel, Democrats, Rangel, Rangel, Rangel, Rangel, Rangel, Rangel, Democratic, Rangel, Rangel, Rangel, Rangel, Rangel, Rangel
1D-: Democrats
2R+: Reaganite, Ronald Reagan
5D=, 4R=