lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Leonard Pitts Jr.
Miami Herald

Columns 48
Words 37771
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 21.85
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 42.56
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 32.21
Democratic Index 7.63
Republican Index -52.91
Positive Index 20.06
Negative Index 50.93
Neutral Index 29.01



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 42 Obama(9), Barack Obama(5), Michelle Obama(4), Eric Holder(3), Lyndon Johnson(2), Barack(2), president, president of the United States, presidency, Barack Obamas, Holder, President Barack Obama, Democrat, President Bill Clinton, Jacqueline Kennedy, Edwards, Kerry, Bill Clinton, Barry, Leahy, President Obama, Keith Ellison, Johnson
Negative Democratic 33 Pelosi(7), Blagojevich(4), Bill Clinton(3), Democrats(3), Kilpatrick(2), Rod Blagojevich(2), Marion Barry(2), Barry(2), Jimmy Carter, Kwame Kilpatrick, Hillary Clinton, Obama, President Obama, White House, Milorad ''Rod'' Blagojevich, Nancy Pelosi
Neutral Democratic 43Obama(13), President Barack Obama(3), President Obama(3), Barry(3), the president(2), Patrick Leahy(2), Harry Truman, president, Truman, Obama administration, Al Sharpton, congressional Democrats, David Paterson, Kerry, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Pelosi, Bill Clinton, presidency, Democrat, Robert Byrd, Democrats
Positive Republican 23 McCain(4), Meghan McCain(3), Republicans(2), president, Condoleezza Rice, the president, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, George Schultz, Gary Johnson, Bush, Palin, Rick Perry, George W. , Richard Nixon, President Eisenhower, Sarah Palin
Negative Republican 132 Bush(26), Limbaugh(15), GOP(13), Rush Limbaugh(5), Bush administration(5), Perry(4), presidency(3), president(3), George W. Bush(3), Sarah Palin(3), Republican(3), Dick Cheney(3), Republican Party(2), McCarthy(2), the president(2), Republicans(2), Bush White House(2), Tom Tancredo(2), Palin(2), administration(2), Newt Gingrich(2), John McCain(2), Gingrich(2), Tancredo(2), President Bush, Rush, Richard Nixon, Rush Hudson Limbaugh III, Steele, Bobby Jindal, Larry Craig, Craig, President Richard Nixon, The president, White House, Joe McCarthy, McCain, Bristol Palin, 43rd president, Stevens, James Richard Perry, George W's presidency, Nixon, former Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney, Ronald Reagan
Neutral Republican 51Bush(8), Republican(3), McCain(3), GOP(3), George W. Bush(2), president(2), Limbaugh(2), Steele(2), John McCain(2), Meghan McCain(2), President Bush(2), Sarah Palin(2), Republicans(2), President George H.W. Bush, Robert Wittman, Graham, Republican Party, Michael Steele, Phil Gingrey, Mark Sanford, H.R. Haldeman, the president, Reagan administration, Ted Stevens, Bush administration, White House, administration, Tom Tancredo, Ronald Reagan



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
'Homosexual demon' target of exorcism
28 Jun 2009
783 0
'Thriller' was greatest triumph, greatest tragedy
25 Jun 2009
1179 0
The world witnessed the killing of Neda
24 Jun 2009
708 0
GOP blind to its race problem
21 Jun 2009
850 56 5D+: Lyndon Johnson, Johnson, Barack, Obama, Michelle Obama
1D-: Democrats
1R+: Republicans
10R-: GOP, GOP, GOP, Ronald Reagan, Republican Party, GOP, GOP, John McCain, Republican, GOP
3D=, 4R=
The Right is not being persecuted
17 Jun 2009
765 20 1R+: Sarah Palin
4R=
The ugly consequences of open hatred
13 Jun 2009
764 25 1D+: Keith Ellison
1D=, 1R=
Privacy invasion now a way of life
10 Jun 2009
751 0
Supreme Court debate: We've been punk'd
06 Jun 2009
794 100 10R-: Newt Gingrich, Gingrich, Republicans, Tom Tancredo, Rush Limbaugh, Republican, Tancredo, Gingrich, Tancredo, Limbaugh
`You don't really know me'
03 Jun 2009
843 100 1D+: Barack
1R-: John McCain
It's good to be able to relate to others
30 May 2009
744 66 4R-: Sarah Palin, Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich
2D=, 1R=
Freedom is worth security risks
27 May 2009
846 26 1D+: President Obama
1R+: President Eisenhower
4R-: former Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney, Bush, Dick Cheney
6D=, 5R=
Truth panel? Not sold on this argument
24 May 2009
822 88 1D+: Leahy
14R-: Bush, Bush, George W's presidency, Nixon, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Perry, Bush, GOP, George W. Bush
2D=, 1R=
Convictions a sorry symptom of the post-9/11 Great Panic
20 May 2009
768 100 2R-: Bush administration, Bush
Pelosi's story has lots of holes in it
17 May 2009
787 18 8D-: Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi
1R+: Republicans
8R-: Bush administration, Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Bush
1D=, 2R=
When you can't even die in peace . . .
13 May 2009
751 0
Blacks must confront their homophobia
10 May 2009
822 22 2D+: Barry, Lyndon Johnson
4D-: Marion Barry, Barry, Barry, Marion Barry
3D=
Grievance and rage combustible
02 May 2009
752 0
Bearing witness, in wonder and in loss
28 Apr 2009
768 0
We love to celebrate notoriety
25 Apr 2009
779 54 1D+: Bill Clinton
6D-: Milorad ''Rod'' Blagojevich, Blagojevich, Blagojevich, Blagojevich, Rod Blagojevich, Rod Blagojevich
1R+: Richard Nixon
2D=, 1R=
When ideology supersedes country
22 Apr 2009
767 33 1D-: Democrats
2R+: Rick Perry, George W.
5R-: Republican, James Richard Perry, Perry, Perry, Perry
Evil done at Columbine hard to explain
18 Apr 2009
738 0
Judging Bush era has just begun
15 April 2009
810 79 1D+: Obama
2D-: President Obama, White House
18R-: Bush, George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, 43rd president, Bush administration, presidency, Bush White House, Bush, administration, Bush, Stevens, Bush, Bush, president, Bush, presidency
1D=, 2R=
How moralists' hypocrisy affects the children
12 Apr 2009
784 60 1R+: Palin
4R-: Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin, Palin, GOP
The now-beloved first lady
08 April 2009
751 34 8D+: Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama, Jacqueline Kennedy, Edwards, Kerry, Obama, Obama, Michelle Obama
2D-: Hillary Clinton, Obama
2R+: McCain, Bush
2R-: McCain, Sarah Palin
We betrayed the rule of law for `fool's gold'
4 April 2009
790 100 9R-: the president, The president, Bush White House, Tom Tancredo, Bush, White House, Joe McCarthy, Bush, McCarthy
Begin discussion on legalizing drugs
31 Mar 2009
804 31 3R+: Ronald Reagan, George Schultz, Gary Johnson
1R-: President Richard Nixon
1D=, 2R=
To honor Franklin, read his books
29 March 2009
759 50 1D+: President Bill Clinton
1D=
Being nice in catty fight? Fat chance
21 Mar 2009
841 65 1D-: Bill Clinton
7R+: John McCain, Meghan McCain, Meghan McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, Meghan McCain
4R=
Don't expect sympathy cards from crooks, corrupt politicians
18 Mar 2009
799 1 4D-: Kwame Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick, Blagojevich, Kilpatrick
2R-: Larry Craig, Craig
2D=, 2R=
Wake-up call for organized religion
14 Mar 2009
700 100 1D+: Democrat
When a man hits a woman
11 Mar 2009
768 0
GOP love means saying you're sorry
8 March 2009
801 54 10R-: GOP, Rush Limbaugh, GOP, Steele, Bobby Jindal, GOP, Bush, GOP, Limbaugh, GOP
1D=, 8R=
I won't Twitter my life away
04 Mar 2009
789 0 5R=
Getting a thrill from the pain of others
1 March 2009
752 0
Why the New York Post cartoon is hurtful
25 February 2009
754 40 2D+: President Barack Obama, Eric Holder
3D=
`Thank Holder for the reminder'
22 Feb 2009
820 75 3D+: Holder, Eric Holder, Eric Holder
1D=
Americans should see the 'high cost' of war
18 February 2009
773 43 1D-: Democrats
1R+: the president
2D=, 1R=
Discrimination hurts -- more so in hospitals
15 Feb 2009
738 0
For a century, NAACP has been doing The Work
11 February 2009
767 2 2D+: Barack Obama, Obama
1R+: Condoleezza Rice
I was blind, and now I see
04 Feb 2009
790 100 1D+: Barack Obamas
Why politics has become so destructive
01 Feb 2009
811 43 1D+: Barack Obama
1D-: Bill Clinton
7R-: Rush Hudson Limbaugh III, Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Bush, Limbaugh
6D=, 5R=
Shamsia is back in class
28 Jan 2009
708 0
Far-right Obama critics get a reply
25 Jan 2009
810 79 3D+: Obama, Barack Obama, presidency
2D-: Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter
13R-: Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Rush, Limbaugh, George W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Republicans, Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Limbaugh
1D=, 1R=
America celebrates Obama, but reinvention nothing new
20 Jan 2009
774 100 4D+: Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, president of the United States
2R-: president, the president
FOR LINCOLN, SAVING THE UNION WAS WHAT MATTERED MOST
18 Jan 2009
811 75 3D+: Barack Obama, Obama, president
1D=
History `last refuge of the failed president'
14 Jan 2009
815 47 1R+: president
6R-: President Bush, Republican Party, presidency, McCarthy, Bush, president
3D=, 2R=
What to say, or not, if flying while Muslim
11 Jan 2009
756 0
Where Clint Eastwood draws the line
07 Jan 2009
715 0