lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Thomas Sowell
Creators Syndicate

Columns 36
Words 28728
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 0.00
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 20.69
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 10.35
Democratic Index -72.51
Republican Index -19.40
Positive Index 12.46
Negative Index 64.35
Neutral Index 23.19



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 10 Obama(5), Barack Obama(2), John F. Kennedy, Harry Truman, Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Negative Democratic 163 Obama(39), Barack Obama(33), Hillary Clinton(11), Democrats(11), the Clintons(9), Hillary(7), Bill Clinton(7), Eliot Spitzer(6), John Edwards(5), Spitzer(5), Feingold(3), Democratic Party(3), Democratic(3), Billary(2), Clinton administration(2), Franklin D. Roosevelt(2), Kennedy(2), Henry Wallace(2), President Roosevelt, Carter, White House, Edwards, Ted Kennedy, Russ Feingold, Bill and Hillary Clinton, The Clintons, Clinton White House, Lyndon Johnson, President Bill Clinton
Neutral Democratic 38Democrats(8), FDR(4), Obama(4), Democratic Party(4), Hillary Clinton(3), Barack Obama(3), Franklin D. Roosevelt(3), Jesse Jackson(2), President Lyndon Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Al Sharpton, Clinton administration, Democratic, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Positive Republican 33 Romney(4), Mitt Romney(3), McCain(3), Rush Limbaugh(3), President Bush(3), Ronald Reagan(2), John McCain(2), Republican(2), George W. Bush(2), President Ronald Reagan, N. Gregory Mankiw, Phil Gramm, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, Mike Huckabee, Rudolph Giuliani, President Reagan, Eisenhower, Dick Cheney
Negative Republican 59 McCain(28), John McCain(10), Republican(5), Republicans(3), President Richard Nixon(2), President Bush(2), Richard Nixon(2), Bush administration, Rudolph Giuliani, Fred Thompson, President Ford, Mike Huckabee, Republican party, President Nixon
Neutral Republican 42Republicans(11), Republican(8), McCain(7), John McCain(5), Mitt Romney(2), Romney(2), Ronald Reagan(2), White House, Fred Thompson, Rudolph Giuliani, President Bush, President Ford



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
An Old Newness
29 April 2008
830 100 4D-: Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama
The Economics of College, Part III
24 April 2008
711 0
The Economics of College, Part II
23 April 2008
725 0
The Economics of College
22 April 2008
760 0
Political crusaders
16 April 2008
754 0
A living lie
15 April 2008
811 93 14D-: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
1D=
Republicans and Blacks
10 April 2008
947 22 8D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic Party, Democratic, Democratic, Democrats, Democratic Party
9R-: John McCain, Republican, Republican, McCain, Republican, McCain, Republican, Republicans, Republicans
4D=, 8R=
Random Thoughts
8 April 2008
763 27 1D+: Daniel Patrick Moynihan
6D-: Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama
1R-: John McCain
1R=
Irony on Wall Street
1 April 2008
760 0
The Audacity of Rhetoric
26 March 2008
898 88 15D-: Barack Obama, Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
2D=
Bipartisan primary blues
25 March 2008
836 6 1D+: Harry Truman
4D-: Democratic Party, Democratic, Henry Wallace, Henry Wallace
1R-: Republican
6D=, 1R=
Obama's speech
19 March 2008
915 74 17D-: Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Democrats, Obama, Democrats, Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Obama
1R+: George W. Bush
1R-: President Nixon
2D=
Race and politics
18 March 2008
867 69 1D+: Barack Obama
10D-: Barack Obama, Eliot Spitzer, Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Barack Obama, Obama
2D=
‘Non-Judgmental’ Nonsense
12 March 2008
841 100 15D-: Eliot Spitzer, Eliot Spitzer, Spitzer, Eliot Spitzer, Spitzer, Spitzer, Eliot Spitzer, Spitzer, Spitzer, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Eliot Spitzer, Hillary Clinton
The costs of crime
11 March 2008
749 0
William F. Buckley (1925-2008)
6 March 2008
846 100 3R+: Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh, President Bush
Rescuing the Rust Belt
4 March 2008
745 50 2D-: Barack Obama, Obama
2D=
Cold Water on ‘Global Warming’
28 February 2008
722 0
A lesson from Venezuela
27 February 2008
799 26 1D-: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1R-: President Richard Nixon
1D=
Bad times
26 February 2008
739 60 3R+: McCain, McCain, President Bush
2R=
‘Supporting the Troops’
19 February 2008
740 0
Who is ‘Fascist’?
13 February 2008
740 0
The media and politics
12 February 2008
773 17 1D-: President Bill Clinton
2R+: Rush Limbaugh, President Bush
4R-: John McCain, Republican party, McCain, McCain
1D=, 2R=
Economics, anyone?
7 February 2008
664 0
What Kind of ‘Experience’?
5 February 2008
912 4 10D-: Hillary Clinton, the Clintons, Clinton White House, the Clintons, Bill Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, the Clintons, the Clintons, Feingold, Kennedy
6R+: Republican, John McCain, Eisenhower, McCain, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney
10R-: Richard Nixon, John McCain, McCain, John McCain, John McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain
2D=, 3R=
McCain's Straight Lies
1 February 2008
893 17 3D-: Kennedy, Feingold, Democrats
6R+: Mitt Romney, Romney, Romney, Romney, President Reagan, Republican
13R-: McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain
1D=, 12R=
A ‘Stimulus Package’?
30 January 2008
725 100 1D-: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1R+: Ronald Reagan
‘Billary’ versus Obama
29 January 2008
845 53 5D+: Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama
19D-: Billary, Bill and Hillary Clinton, the Clintons, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Hillary, the Clintons, Clinton administration, Clinton administration, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Hillary, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Billary, Hillary, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, The Clintons
1R+: John McCain
4D=
McCain's age
25 January 2008
874 45 2D-: Ted Kennedy, Russ Feingold
5R-: McCain, John McCain, John McCain, John McCain, McCain
4D=, 1R=
Dangerous demagoguery, Part II
23 January 2008
748 0
Dangerous demagoguery
22 January 2008
804 88 7D-: Barack Obama, Obama, John Edwards, John Edwards, Edwards, John Edwards, Barack Obama
1D=
Primary dilemmas
18 January 2008
861 34 1D+: John F. Kennedy
10D-: Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, the Clintons, White House, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, the Clintons, the Clintons
2R+: Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney
1R-: Mike Huckabee
1D=, 7R=
Green ‘Disparate Impact’
15 January 2008
740 0
Myths of '68
9 January 2008
744 0 3D=
What does it mean?
8 January 2008
907 10 1D+: Obama
12D-: Hillary Clinton, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Hillary, Barack Obama, Democrats, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Carter, Feingold, Democrats
3R+: Mike Huckabee, Romney, Rudolph Giuliani
11R-: Rudolph Giuliani, Republicans, Fred Thompson, John McCain, President Bush, President Bush, McCain, President Ford, Richard Nixon, McCain, McCain
1D=, 4R=
Santa Claus politics
2 January 2008
740 44 2D-: Hillary Clinton, President Roosevelt
5R+: President Ronald Reagan, N. Gregory Mankiw, Ronald Reagan, Phil Gramm, House Majority Leader Dick Armey
2R-: Bush administration, President Richard Nixon
1R=