lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Thomas Sowell
Creators Syndicate

Columns 44
Words 35454
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 10.61
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 17.40
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 14.00
Democratic Index -66.48
Republican Index -10.69
Positive Index 16.72
Negative Index 56.72
Neutral Index 26.57



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 15 Barack Obama(4), Franklin D. Roosevelt(3), President Obama(2), Democrats(2), FDR, the Obamas, Bill Clinton, Barney Frank
Negative Democratic 132 Barack Obama(20), President Obama(17), Democrats(15), administration(13), Obama administration(10), Obama(10), President Barack Obama(4), White House(4), Barney Frank(4), president(4), President of the United States(4), Franklin D. Roosevelt(3), Frank(3), FDR(2), Christopher Dodd(2), the president(2), Democratic Party, Congress, Congressional Democrats, Clinton, Al Gore, Clinton administration, Dodd, Patrick Leahy, Hillary Clinton, the Congress, the President, the Obamas, Rahm Emanuel, Joe Biden, Eleanor Roosevelt
Neutral Democratic 29Democrats(10), Barack Obama(7), Obama(3), President Obama(3), administration, President, President Barack Obama, Frank, Democratic Party, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Positive Republican 41 Ronald Reagan(8), Republican(5), Sarah Palin(5), Palin(4), Republicans(3), Newt Gingrich(3), Scooter Libby(2), Reagan(2), Michael Steele(2), Bush administration, the Gipper, Gingrich, Steele, Jindal, Phil Gramm, George Bush
Negative Republican 58 Republicans(24), President Bush(5), Republican(5), John McCain(3), Libby(2), Bob Dole(2), Paulson, Scooter Libby, Bush administration, Nixon administration, Nixon, Gingrich, Bush 41, George W. Bush administration, Bobby Jindal, Jindal, Sarah Palin, Reagan, Peggy Noonan, George W. Bush, President Ford, Richard Nixon, GOPers
Neutral Republican 60Republicans(19), Michael Steele(5), Bush administration(4), Rush Limbaugh(4), Libby(3), Republican(3), Vice-President Dick Cheney(2), Congressional Republicans(2), Republican Party(2), Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, White House, Ari Fleischer, administration, Richard Armitage, Armitage, Scooter Libby, President Bush, Colin Powell, Reagan, Republican National Committee, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan, Republican-controlled Congress



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
'Empathy' in Action
27 May 2009
840 60 3D-: Barack Obama, President Obama, Barack Obama
2D=
'Empathy' versus law, Part III
6 May 2009
862 100 10D-: President Barack Obama, Barack Obama, President Obama, Barack Obama, President of the United States, Obama administration, the president, Obama, Obama administration, Obama
Magic Numbers in Politics
17 April 2009
758 0
'Not One of Us'
24 February 2009
859 44 2D+: Barack Obama, Barack Obama
4D-: President Obama, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Eleanor Roosevelt
8R+: Sarah Palin, Palin, Palin, Sarah Palin, Palin, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Palin
2R-: John McCain, Republicans
3R=
The Rush To Wait
18 February 2009
856 87 12D-: the President, the Obamas, President Obama, Obama, FDR, administration, administration, administration, Obama, President Obama, Rahm Emanuel, administration
1R+: George Bush
2D=
Alice in Medical Care
30 June 2009
777 0
Another 'Good Thing'
24 June 2009
788 0
GOPers in the wilderness
23 June 2009
922 6 2D+: Democrats, Democrats
9D-: President of the United States, administration, White House, the Congress, Obama, Barack Obama, president, Democrats, Democrats
5R+: Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Republican, Republican
7R-: GOPers, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, Bob Dole, John McCain
3D=, 9R=
Equality or pay-back?
16 June 2009
739 100 1D-: President Obama
The Character of Nations
10 June 2009
743 0
Varieties of nothing
9 June 2009
733 0
'Out of Context': Part III
4 June 2009
795 0
'Out of Context': Part I
3 June 2009
837 9 1D-: the president
1R-: Richard Nixon
4R=
'Out of Context'
2 June 2009
842 1 2D-: President Obama, Hillary Clinton
1R-: Republicans
2D=, 1R=
Burke and Obama
27 May 2009
866 100 7D-: Obama, President of the United States, Barack Obama, Obama administration, President Obama, Obama administration, President Obama
Random thoughts
26 May 2009
812 20 1D+: Franklin D. Roosevelt
2D-: Barack Obama, Barack Obama
2R+: Republicans, Republican
1R-: Republicans
3R=
Photographic fraud
19 May 2009
763 0
The Blame Game
13 May 2009
796 1 1D+: Barney Frank
5D-: Frank, Frank, Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, Democrats
2R-: Republican, Republicans
1D=, 1R=
Talking points
12 May 2009
773 100 5D-: president, President of the United States, Barack Obama, Obama, president
'Empathy' versus law, Part IV
7 May 2009
769 100 3D-: President Barack Obama, Obama, Patrick Leahy
'Empathy' versus law, Part II
6 May 2009
824 100 1D-: President Barack Obama
'Empathy' versus law
5 May 2009
827 18 3D-: President Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama
1R-: President Ford
1D=
The housing boom and bust
29 April 2009
778 44 3D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
4R-: Republicans, Republicans, George W. Bush, Republicans
Survival optional
28 April 2009
775 100 5D-: Barack Obama, President Obama, President Obama, White House, president
Words versus realities
22 April 2009
738 0
Are You an 'Extremist'?
17 April 2009
769 100 8D-: Obama administration, administration, administration, Barack Obama, Obama administration, administration, President Obama, Obama
1R+: Phil Gramm
Magic words in politics
14 April 2009
798 22 3D-: administration, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Obama administration
1R-: President Bush
Mind-changing books
8 April 2009
786 0
A Rookie President
31 March 2009
875 34 10D-: Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, President Obama, Barack Obama, President Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, President Obama, President Obama
2R-: Reagan, Peggy Noonan
4D=
Cheap Political Theater
24 March 2009
798 100 6D-: Barney Frank, Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, Barney Frank, Dodd, Frank
Subsidizing bad decisions
10 March 2009
738 0
Is Talk Cheap?
3 March 2009
838 32 2D+: Barack Obama, President Obama
2D-: White House, Obama administration
2R+: Ronald Reagan, Jindal
6R-: Republicans, Republican, Bobby Jindal, Jindal, Republican, Sarah Palin
1D=, 2R=
A fatal trajectory
24 February 2009
791 100 1D-: White House
Upside Down Economics
18 February 2009
690 32 1D-: Clinton administration
1R-: George W. Bush administration
Random Thoughts
11 February 2009
789 23 1D+: Franklin D. Roosevelt
5D-: administration, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Obama administration, administration
1R-: Republicans
1D=
De-Programming Students
10 February 2009
790 100 1D-: Al Gore
Republicans as Democrats, Part II
4 February 2009
927 18 1D+: Bill Clinton
2D-: Clinton, Democrats
7R+: Sarah Palin, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Michael Steele, Ronald Reagan, Michael Steele, Steele
14R-: Republicans, Republicans, Bob Dole, John McCain, Republicans, Gingrich, Republican, Republicans, Republicans, Republicans, President Bush, Republicans, Bush 41, Republicans
5D=, 10R=
Republicans as Democrats
3 February 2009
863 17 8D-: Democrats, Obama administration, Congressional Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
8R+: Republican, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, Republican, Newt Gingrich, Reagan, Gingrich, Republicans
7R-: Republicans, President Bush, Bush administration, Republicans, Nixon administration, Nixon, Republicans
3D=, 10R=
What are they buying?
27 January 2009
791 86 6D-: President Barack Obama, administration, Congress, Franklin D. Roosevelt, FDR, administration
1D=
Political speeches
21 January 2009
901 15 5D+: Barack Obama, Franklin D. Roosevelt, FDR, President Obama, the Obamas
4R+: Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, the Gipper
3D=, 1R=
Lured To Disaster
20 January 2009
795 0
Manufacturing a crime
9 January 2009
915 0 3R+: Scooter Libby, Bush administration, Scooter Libby
3R-: Scooter Libby, Libby, Libby
16R=
An Emergency Review
8 January 2009
754 0
The Economic 'Stimulus'
6 January 2009
774 44 3D-: Democrats, Democratic Party, Democrats
4R-: President Bush, Paulson, Republican, President Bush