lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Richard Cohen
Washington Post

Columns 49
Words 44564
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 31.14
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 34.47
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 32.81
Democratic Index -4.21
Republican Index -55.36
Positive Index 16.35
Negative Index 53.23
Neutral Index 30.42



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 82 Obama(16), Gore(11), Barack Obama(4), John F. Kennedy(4), JFK(4), Biden(4), Al Gore(3), Democratic(3), Kucinich(3), Clinton(3), Carter(2), Joseph Biden(2), Kennedy(2), the president, Truman, Jimmy Carter, Ed Markey, Dennis Kucinich, Bill Clinton, George McGovern, John Kerry, Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Edwards, Democrats, FDR, Robert F. Kennedy, JFKish, Joe Biden, Bill Richardson, Ed Koch, Michelle Obama, former president, Lyndon Johnson
Negative Democratic 94 Clinton(15), Democrats(11), Obama(8), Hillary Clinton(7), Edwards(7), Democratic(6), Markey(5), Bill Clinton(3), John Edwards(3), Democratic Party(3), Hillary(3), Democratic National Committee(2), Schumer(2), Bill Richardson(2), Democratic Congress(2), Jimmy Carter, former president, Eddie Markey, Sheldon Whitehouse, D-, Richardson, Democrat, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Michael Dukakis, Barbra Streisand, presidency, Kennedy, the Clintons, Bill
Neutral Democratic 109Obama(18), Bill Clinton(10), Democratic(9), Clinton(6), Barack Obama(6), Hillary Clinton(5), Hillary(5), John Edwards(4), Democrats(4), Democratic Party(4), Democrat(3), Kucinich(3), Biden(3), JFK(3), Gore(2), John F. Kennedy(2), Edwards(2), the Clintons(2), Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, Markey, Ed Markey, president of the United States, Bill Richardson, Al Gore, administration, Clintons, John Kerry, Bill and Hillary , Clinton administration, Edward Kennedy, Kennedy, Albert Gore Jr., Bill, President Clinton
Positive Republican 47 Bush(5), McCain(5), the president(4), Giuliani(4), Libby(3), Reagan(3), Romney(3), Condi Rice(2), Bush administration(2), Cheney, Gonzales, Cabinet, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Scooter Libby, Richard M. Nixon, Nixon, George W. Bush, Republican Party, Rudy Giuliani, Rudy, John McCain, Colin Powell, Rove, Huckabee, Bob Dole
Negative Republican 326 Bush(50), Thompson(28), Cheney(21), Huckabee(19), Gonzales(18), Romney(16), Giuliani(16), George W. Bush(12), the president(11), Bush administration(11), Republican(10), Republicans(10), administration(8), GOP(8), Fred Thompson(7), George Bush(5), Dick Cheney(5), Mitt Romney(4), Alberto Gonzales(4), President Bush(4), Nixon(3), Rudy Giuliani(3), Pete Domenici(3), White House(3), Karl Rove(3), Craig(3), Rudy(3), Mike Huckabee(3), The president(2), Ronald Reagan(2), Domenici(2), Republican Party(2), Wolfowitz(2), Don Rumsfeld(2), Larry Craig(2), John McCain, McCain, Rice, Smith, Reagan, vice president, Brent Scowcroft, Richard Armitage, president, Colin Powell, Scooter Libby, congressional Republicans, Tom Tancredo, McCarthy, Rumsfeld, Rudolph Giuliani, presidency, Bushies, 41st president, George H.W. Bush, Spiro T. Agnew
Neutral Republican 131Romney(19), Bush(13), Thompson(8), GOP(7), Republicans(6), Republican(5), Huckabee(4), Reagan(4), Mitt Romney(4), Craig(4), Cheney(3), John McCain(3), McCain(3), George W. Bush(3), Republican Party(2), Ronald Reagan(2), Gonzales(2), Alberto Gonzales(2), White House(2), I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby(2), Fred Thompson(2), Libby(2), Rudy Giuliani(2), George H.W. Bush(2), William French Smith, Domenici, Brownback, Tancredo, Nelson Rockefeller, Jake Javits, Ken Keating, Mike Huckabee, Rudy, Barry Goldwater, Scooter, Nixon, Ron Paul, Jim Gilmore, Rudolph Giuliani, Judith Giuliani, Vice President Cheney, administration, Bush administration, Giuliani, Karl Rove, Rove, Pat Robertson, Bush the elder, Lindsey Graham



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
To Live and Take in D.C.
25 December 2007
887 100 1R-: Spiro T. Agnew
Irony and Change
18 December 2007
1022 13 4D+: former president, Obama, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
10D-: Democrats, Clinton, Clinton, Obama, Obama, Obama, presidency, Kennedy, the Clintons, Bill
1R+: Bush
2R-: Republicans, George H.W. Bush
18D=, 3R=
A New Wind in Iowa
11 December 2007
738 33 9D+: Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Obama, Democratic, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
3D-: Clinton, Hillary, Barbra Streisand
6D=
Un-Mormon and Unchristian
4 December 2007
1006 45 1D+: John F. Kennedy
2R+: Romney, Romney
17R-: Huckabee, Mike Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Ronald Reagan, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee, Bush, 41st president, Republican, Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee
3D=, 13R=
Beyond the Reach of Annapolis
27 November 2007
865 0
You First, Governor Huckabee
20 November 2007
948 39 3R+: the president, Huckabee, Bob Dole
15R-: Huckabee, Mike Huckabee, Huckabee, George W. Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, the president, Huckabee, Huckabee, Romney, Huckabee, Huckabee, Mike Huckabee
2D=, 11R=
An Opening For Mr. Competent
13 November 2007
959 15 3D-: Democratic Congress, Democratic Congress, Michael Dukakis
1R+: Rove
6R-: Karl Rove, Republican, Republican, GOP, the president, George W. Bush
1D=, 3R=
Rudy's Torture Talk
6 November 2007
982 40 1D+: Ed Koch
5R+: John McCain, McCain, Colin Powell, McCain, McCain
16R-: Rudy, GOP, Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, Bush, Bushies, Thompson, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani
1D=, 7R=
Bush's Legacy of Cynicism
30 October 2007
871 38 1D-: Democratic
2R+: Bush administration, Bush administration
9R-: Bush, George W. Bush, presidency, Bush, Bush administration, Cheney, Bush, Cheney, George W. Bush
1D=, 3R=
Giuliani's War
23 October 2007
908 93 13R-: Giuliani, Rudolph Giuliani, Rudy, Rudy, Republican, Giuliani, Giuliani, Republican, White House, President Bush, Dick Cheney, Giuliani, Giuliani
1R=
Turkey's War on the Truth
16 October 2007
810 100 1D-: Nancy Pelosi
A Senator Who Hasn't Learned
9 October 2007
930 55 6R-: Larry Craig, Craig, Republican, Craig, Craig, Larry Craig
5R=
Thing 1, Mets 0
2 October 2007
857 100 3R-: Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney
Iraq's Inevitabilities
25 September 2007
870 54 6D+: Joseph Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden, Bill Richardson, Biden
4D=, 1R=
. . . What She Ducked
18 September 2007
944 30 1D+: Joe Biden
13D-: Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Democratic, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary, Clinton, Hillary Clinton
4R-: McCarthy, Republicans, Republicans, Rudy Giuliani
8D=
Rationalizing Israel Out of Existence
11 September 2007
847 0
A Surreality Check
4 September 2007
969 31 8D-: John Edwards, Bill Richardson, Richardson, Democrat, Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Democrats
15R-: President Bush, Don Rumsfeld, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, Romney, congressional Republicans, Rudy Giuliani, Alberto Gonzales, Tom Tancredo, Fred Thompson, Karl Rove, White House, the president, Romney, George W. Bush
1R=
Giuliani's JFK Moment
14 August 2007
945 16 7D+: JFK, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, JFK, JFK, JFKish
7R+: Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Giuliani, Romney, Rudy
4R-: Giuliani, Mitt Romney, George Bush, Romney
1D=, 4R=
Not My Grandpa's Democrats
7 August 2007
928 80 8D-: Democrats, Democratic Party, Democrats, Schumer, Schumer, Democratic Party, Democrats, Democrats
2D=
Thompson on Horseback
31 July 2007
934 71 12R-: Thompson, Fred Thompson, Republicans, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, GOP, Thompson, Republicans, Thompson, Thompson, Republican
5R=
He Just Plays a Straight Shooter
24 July 2007
964 13 2D+: FDR, Robert F. Kennedy
9D-: John Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Bill Clinton, Edwards, Edwards
10R-: Fred Thompson, Fred Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Scooter Libby, Thompson, Thompson
2D=, 4R=
The Doctor Who Didn't Know When to Quit
17 July 2007
864 100 11R-: Bush administration, administration, president, Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, the president, Bush, Bush administration, Colin Powell
They Honor Us With Their Hate
10 July 2007
869 100 3R-: the president, George Bush, Bush
A Local Lesson That Democrats Fail
3 July 2007
893 47 2D+: Barack Obama, Obama
6D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democratic Party, Democratic, Democratic, Democratic
2R+: George W. Bush, Republican Party
3D=
How the GOP Could Win
26 June 2007
1043 37 13D+: George McGovern, Democratic, John Kerry, Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Edwards, Clinton, Joseph Biden, Clinton, Obama, Clinton, Democrats
5D-: Democrats, Democrats, John Edwards, Obama, Clinton
3R+: Richard M. Nixon, Nixon, the president
12R-: George Bush, GOP, Nixon, Nixon, Bush, Cheney, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Republican, Republicans, GOP, Giuliani
6D=, 7R=
The Runaway Train That Hit Scooter Libby
19 June 2007
939 0 3R+: Scooter Libby, Libby, Libby
3R-: Alberto Gonzales, Richard Armitage, George Bush
1D=, 4R=
Berlin's Lake of the Unimaginable
12 June 2007
825 0
Can He Find His Motivation?
5 June 2007
993 35 4R+: Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Reagan, Reagan
15R-: Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Fred Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Thompson, Republican Party, Thompson, Thompson
12R=
Bush the Neoliberal
29 May 2007
937 0 6R+: Condi Rice, Bush, Cabinet, Bush, the president, Bush
6R-: Republicans, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, President Bush, Brent Scowcroft, Bush
4D=, 9R=
Storm-Watching in Jordan
22 May 2007
921 100 1D+: Bill Clinton
2R-: Bush administration, President Bush
Politics by the Pound
15 May 2007
914 30 1D+: Al Gore
2R-: Bush, Huckabee
4D=, 3R=
Start Hedging The Views . . .
8 May 2007
907 0 12R=
A Case Against Cheney
2 May 2007
953 68 4D+: Dennis Kucinich, Kucinich, Kucinich, Kucinich
1R+: Condi Rice
14R-: Cheney, Dick Cheney, vice president, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz, Bush administration, Cheney, Cheney
4D=, 2R=
Why Boycott Israel?
24 April 2007
819 0
The Face of Opportunism
17 April 2007
893 77 1D+: Democratic
9R-: Alberto Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Republicans, GOP, Republican Party, Pete Domenici, Domenici, Gonzales
1D=, 2R=
Candor? Call the Special Prosecutor!
10 April 2007
909 24 2D-: Sheldon Whitehouse, D-
1R+: Libby
6R-: White House, Gonzales, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, Pete Domenici, Domenici
1D=, 3R=
Gonzales the Cipher
3 April 2007
923 88 1R+: Gonzales
29R-: Gonzales, Alberto Gonzales, George W. Bush, Bush, Gonzales, Gonzales, Bush, Gonzales, Bush, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Bush, Gonzales, Bush, Gonzales, Gonzales, Bush, Smith, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, the president, Gonzales, the president, Pete Domenici, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Bush
2R=
Obama's Back Story
27 March 2007
909 0 3D+: John F. Kennedy, JFK, Obama
3D-: Obama, Obama, Obama
10D=, 1R=
Wasted Lives
20 March 2007
853 16 1D+: Obama
2D-: Democratic National Committee, Democratic National Committee
4R+: McCain, McCain, Cheney, the president
8R-: McCain, the president, Bush, Cheney, Rice, Bush, Cheney, Bush administration
2D=, 2R=
Please Don't Take My Sunshine Away
13 March 2007
873 56 1D+: Ed Markey
6D-: Eddie Markey, Markey, Markey, Markey, Markey, Markey
2D=
From Obama, a Map for a New March
6 March 2007
918 21 5D+: Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
2D-: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton
7D=
An Oscar For His Second Act
27 February 2007
921 77 15D+: Al Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore, Jimmy Carter, Gore, Gore, Carter, Gore, Gore, Gore, Al Gore
2R-: George W. Bush, the president
4D=, 1R=
The Talented Mr. Romney
20 February 2007
951 72 1D-: Democrats
21R-: Romney, Mitt Romney, Republican, Romney, Romney, Romney, Republicans, GOP, Romney, GOP, Romney, Romney, Romney, Republican, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Romney, Romney, Romney, Republicans, Romney
1D=, 5R=
The Explanation Hillary Clinton Owes
13 February 2007
964 8 1D+: Barack Obama
8D-: Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Clinton, Obama, Democratic, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton
9R-: George W. Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush
10D=, 3R=
Cheapening a Fight Against Hatred
6 February 2007
871 33 1D+: Carter
2D-: Jimmy Carter, former president
War of the Water Cooler
30 January 2007
935 95 1D+: Truman
20R-: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bush, Cheney, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Cheney, Bush, Cheney, Bush, Cheney, The president, Bush, Cheney, Cheney, Bush, Nixon, Bush
1R=
Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Indefensible
23 January 2007
870 100 4R-: Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, administration
Irrational Is as Irrational Does
9 January 2007
882 89 1R+: Bush
17R-: George W. Bush, The president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, the president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, the president, Bush, Bush, George Bush
Fairness for Lewinsky
2 January 2007
831 0 1D+: the president
1D-: Bill Clinton
1R=