lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate

Columns 2
Words 1511
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 89.99
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 89.99
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 89.99
Democratic Index 50.00
Republican Index -93.75
Positive Index 5.56
Negative Index 83.33
Neutral Index 11.11


Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 1 Ted Kennedy
Negative Democratic 0
Neutral Democratic 1Democrats
Positive Republican 0
Negative Republican 15 Bush(6), administration(2), president of the United States, the president, Paul Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, George W. Bush, White House, Republicans
Neutral Republican 1John McCain


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
Stand up against the surge
11 January 2007		 736 89 1D+: Ted Kennedy
7R-: George W. Bush, Bush, White House, Bush, Republicans, administration, Bush
1R=
We let them do it
4 January 2007		 775 91 8R-: president of the United States, Bush, the president, administration, Paul Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Bush, Bush
1D=