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The absurdity of partisanship
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William Raspberry
Washington Post

Columns 23
Words 19316
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 0.00
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 51.52
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 25.76
Democratic Index 62.50
Republican Index -47.30
Positive Index 16.67
Negative Index 44.44
Neutral Index 38.89



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 12 Conyers(4), Democratic(2), John Conyers, D-, John Kerry, Democrat, Democrats, Bill Clinton
Negative Democratic 2 Clinton administration, Strom Thurmond
Neutral Democratic 2Harry M. Reid, D-
Positive Republican 3 Secretary of State Colin Powell, President Bush, Richard Nixon
Negative Republican 38 the president(7), President Bush(5), Republican(3), Bush(2), Cochran(2), Thad Cochran(2), Lott(2), David Stockman, Newt Gingrich, president, Norquist, Mr. President, secretary of state Colin Powell, Bush administration, Tom DeLay, Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg, J. Kenneth Blackwell, Trent Lott, Cheney, Reagan, administration
Neutral Republican 33President Bush(5), Bush(4), the president(4), administration(3), Bloomberg(3), Republicans(2), George W. Bush(2), Grover Norquist, Bush administration, Rush Limbaugh, George Aiken, Cochran, Clay Shaw, Shaw, Jim McCrery, Sam Johnson, Paul Ryan



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
New Approach, but the Same Private Accounts
27 June 2005
810 27 3R-: Republican, President Bush, administration
8R=
A 'Sorry' Excuse From Cochran
20 June 2005
880 58 1D-: Strom Thurmond
8R-: Cochran, Republican, Trent Lott, Thad Cochran, Lott, Cochran, Lott, Thad Cochran
1R=
Filling the Racial Gap in Academia
31 May 2005
856 0
Outsourcing at Home
23 May 2005
811 0
Getting Beyond Racism
16 May 2005
827 0
Society's Toxins, Caught on Tape
2 May 2005
813 0
Fixing What Ails the Schools
25 April 2005
847 40 2R-: Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg
3R=
Fox's Sandstorm
18 April 2005
800 0 1R=
Show Blacks How to Fill Their Glasses
11 April 2005
874 0 1R=
Marriage Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
4 April 2005
877 0
Whose Life Are We Supporting?
28 March 2005
863 100 2R-: Tom DeLay, President Bush
All the Nuance That's Fit to Print
21 March 2005
808 50 3R-: the president, Bush administration, the president
3R=
What Isn't Partisan?
14 March 2005
890 43 1D+: Bill Clinton
4R-: the president, the president, the president, secretary of state Colin Powell
2D=, 4R=
Private Doesn't Mean Better
7 March 2005
826 0
Seizing My Opportunity
28 February 2005
811 0
Building Youth Achievement
21 February 2005
797 0
Love's Dying Ritual
14 February 2005
860 0
A Test of Faith on Social Security
7 February 2005
812 50 3R-: the president, the president, Mr. President
3R=
Cutting Out the Poor
31 January 2005
869 33 1D-: Clinton administration
1R+: Richard Nixon
6R-: President Bush, Reagan, David Stockman, Newt Gingrich, president, Norquist
1R=
Religion Vs. Unity
24 January 2005
790 25 1R+: President Bush
3R=
How to Reach Black America
17 January 2005
871 0
What Happened in Ohio
10 January 2005
922 93 11D+: John Conyers, D-, Democratic, John Kerry, Democratic, Conyers, Democrat, Conyers, Conyers, Conyers, Democrats
6R-: President Bush, Republican, Bush, J. Kenneth Blackwell, Bush, Cheney
2R=
A Way Out of Iraq
3 January 2005
802 0 1R+: Secretary of State Colin Powell
1R-: President Bush
3R=