lying in ponds
The absurdity of partisanship
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Paul Krugman
New York Times

Columns 84
Words 73417
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 70.13
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 60.44
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 65.28
Democratic Index 31.46
Republican Index -73.20
Positive Index 15.94
Negative Index 61.10
Neutral Index 22.95



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 153 Democrats(47), Democratic(17), Clinton(12), Bill Clinton(9), Gore(8), John Kerry(5), Democrat(5), Al Gore(5), Democratic Party(3), Nancy Pelosi(3), Rubin(3), Howard Dean(2), Soros(2), James Webb(2), Tester(2), Ned Lamont(2), the Clintons, Max Cleland, Dems, Franklin Roosevelt, George Soros, Kathleen Sebelius, Democratic House, president, Harry Truman, Truman, Jon Tester, Robert Rubin, Bob Casey, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown, Jennings, Webb, Ike Skelton, Barack Obama, John Spratt, Russ Feingold, Democratic National Committee, Congressional Democrats, Joseph Lieberman, Rubinomics, Clinton administration
Negative Democratic 52 Lieberman(27), Democrats(9), Democratic(2), Max Baucus(2), Joe Lieberman(2), Joseph Lieberman, Democrat, Baucus, Obama, administration, Strom Thurmond, Kennedy, Clinton, Joe Biden, Rubin
Neutral Democratic 116Democrats(51), Democratic(13), Lieberman(6), Bill Clinton(5), Democrat(5), Democratic Party(3), Gore(3), Joe Lieberman(2), George Soros(2), John Kerry(2), Congressional Democrats(2), Al Gore(2), Rubinomics(2), Lamont(2), Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Tom Daschle, Clinton, Ned Lamont, Kerry, Dem, Christine Jennings, James Webb, Webb, Democratic president, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Rubin, L.B.J.
Positive Republican 38 Dwight Eisenhower(4), Bush(4), President Bush(4), Republican(4), Lindsey(2), Chafee(2), Republicans(2), Paul O'Neill, Larry Lindsey, Eisenhower, Paul Wolfowitz, Vice President Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, Reagan, Lincoln Chafee, McCain, Colin Powell, Dick Armey, Ronald Reagan, G.O.P. , Susan Collins, Former President George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft
Negative Republican 680 Bush(174), administration(122), Bush administration(69), President Bush(36), Republicans(36), Republican(32), Abramoff(23), McCain(18), White House(17), Republican Party(13), G.O.P. (13), George W. Bush(11), DeLay(9), Donald Rumsfeld(8), the president(7), Cheney(6), Dick Cheney(5), John McCain(5), Jack Abramoff(5), president(4), Reagan(4), Foley(4), Hastert(4), Karl Rove(3), Jon Kyl(2), Rush Limbaugh(2), Tom DeLay(2), Rumsfeld(2), George Allen(2), George Bush(2), vice president(2), G.O.P.(2), Armey(2), Bushlike, first Bush administration, Billy Tauzin, Lincoln Chafee, Olympia Snowe, Tauzin, Ronald Reagan, Trent Lott, Scott McClellan, Republican National Committee, Chafee, R, James Inhofe, John Snow, Bush I, Snow, vice president of the United States, The president, Barry Goldwater, McCarthy, Vice President Dick Cheney, Charles Grassley, Vice President Cheney, Administration, executive branch, Richard Nixon, Allen, Katherine Harris, Harris, James Baker, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Grassley, Newt Gingrich
Neutral Republican 159Bush(27), Republican(16), Republicans(16), President Bush(15), administration(10), McCain(8), Bush administration(6), White House(5), Republican Party(3), Henry Paulson(3), G.O.P. (3), Buchanan(3), Donald Rumsfeld(2), Dennis Hastert(2), the president(2), the President(2), Grover Norquist(2), Abramoff(2), Mr. President(2), John McCain, Karl Rove, Rove, Ari Fleischer, The president, Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, Samuel Bodman, Rush Limbaugh, Lawrence B. Lindsey, George Bush, Vice President Cheney, THE PRESIDENT, Condoleezza Rice, Rumsfeld, Lincoln Chafee, Michael Chertoff, Eisenhower, Nixon, Paulson, president, Hastert, Dick Cheney, Joseph McCarthy, Michael Leavitt, Leavitt, Vern Buchanan, Jack Abramoff, George W. Bush, Dick Armey



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
A Failed Revolution
29 December 2006
881 95 2D+: Bill Clinton, Democrats
18R-: Republican, Armey, Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, Armey, G.O.P., Jack Abramoff, Republicans, Republican, White House, Bush administration, Republican, administration, Republicans, Bush, Reagan, Bush administration, Republican
1R=
Helping the Poor, the British Way
25 December 2006
885 85 7R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, George Bush, Bush
1D=
Democrats and the Deficit
22 December 2006
935 67 11D+: Democrats, Rubin, Democrats, Rubinomics, Rubin, Clinton administration, Rubin, Democrats, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Nancy Pelosi
1D-: Rubin
10R-: Reagan, Bush, President Bush, Bush, George W. Bush, Bush, Republican, Republicans, Bush, Bush
7D=
Outsourcer in Chief
11 December 2006
846 100 1D+: Congressional Democrats
9R-: President Bush, administration, administration, Bush administration, Bush, Republican Party, G.O.P. , Bush administration, administration
They Told You So
8 December 2006
874 81 11D+: James Webb, Democrats, Al Gore, Ike Skelton, Al Gore, Barack Obama, John Spratt, Nancy Pelosi, Russ Feingold, Howard Dean, Democratic National Committee
2R+: Former President George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft
6R-: Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, administration, administration, administration, the president
Two More Years
4 December 2006
967 55 1D+: Webb
13R-: Bush, the president, Bush, Bush, Bush, James Baker, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
4D=, 7R=
Economic Storm Signals
1 December 2006
845 100 1R-: White House
When Votes Disappear
24 November 2006
881 48 3D+: Democratic, Democrats, Jennings
5R-: Republicans, Katherine Harris, Republican, Harris, Republican
2D=, 7R=
True Blue Populists
13 November 2006
952 39 12D+: Democrats, John Kerry, Jon Tester, Democrat, Democrats, Tester, Tester, Democrats, Bob Casey, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown, Al Gore
5D-: Lieberman, Democrats, Lieberman, Democratic, Joe Biden
6R-: George Allen, Allen, Republican Party, Republicans, Donald Rumsfeld, Republicans
8D=, 1R=
The Great Revulsion
10 November 2006
893 60 6D+: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democratic
2R+: Republicans, Dwight Eisenhower
9R-: Bush, Republicans, Bush, Republican, Republican Party, Bush administration, Republican Party, Karl Rove, Karl Rove
3D=, 2R=
Limiting the Damage
6 November 2006
972 67 1R+: Bush
21R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Bush, Rumsfeld, Bush, executive branch, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Richard Nixon, Bush, Republican, Bush, White House, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, G.O.P.
5D=, 2R=
As Bechtel Goes
3 November 2006
849 89 1D+: Democratic
7R-: Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, administration, Administration, White House, administration
1R=
Bursting Bubble Blues
30 October 2006
843 60 3R-: Bush administration, G.O.P. , administration
2R=
The Arithmetic of Failure
27 October 2006
830 100 1R-: Bush administration
Don’t Make Nice
23 October 2006
902 53 8D+: Democrats, Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Democrats, Democrats, Democrat, Harry Truman, Truman
1D-: Democrats
7R-: Bush administration, Bush administration, Republican Party, Karl Rove, G.O.P., Republican, G.O.P.
7D=, 3R=
Incentives for the Dead
20 October 2006
833 0
One-Letter Politics
16 October 2006
944 12 4R-: G.O.P. , John McCain, McCain, Republicans
15D=, 12R=
Will the Levee Break?
13 October 2006
924 34 9D+: Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democratic, Democratic House, Democratic, Democrats, Democratic, Democratic
4R+: Republican, G.O.P. , Republican, Republicans
5R-: Bush administration, Republicans, G.O.P. , Republican, Republican
6D=, 8R=
The Paranoid Style
9 October 2006
903 69 5D+: George Soros, Soros, Soros, Democrats, Democratic
13R-: Foley, Hastert, Hastert, Foley, Hastert, Hastert, Republican Party, Barry Goldwater, White House, Donald Rumsfeld, McCarthy, Foley, Republican
3D=, 5R=
The War Against Wages
6 October 2006
813 100 1D+: Democrats
1R-: Republican
Things Fall Apart
2 October 2006
924 62 5D+: John Kerry, James Webb, Kathleen Sebelius, Democratic, Democrats
2R+: Dick Armey, Ronald Reagan
13R-: White House, Bush, Bush, administration, Republicans, Foley, Republican, Bush, Republicans, George Allen, Republican, Republicans, G.O.P.
3D=, 3R=
Insurance Horror Stories
22 September 2006
806 0
King of Pain
18 September 2006
939 74 1D+: Democrats
1R+: Colin Powell
14R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, the president, vice president, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush
3R=
Progress or Regress?
15 September 2006
786 100 1D+: John Kerry
Promises Not Kept
11 September 2006
845 65 2D+: Clinton, Clinton
1R+: Bush
6R-: Rush Limbaugh, administration, administration, administration, Bush administration, Bush
2R=
Whining Over Discontent
8 September 2006
818 100 2D+: Bill Clinton, Clinton
1R-: Bush
Health Policy Malpractice
4 September 2006
862 100 1D+: Bill Clinton
9R-: administration, Republicans, administration, Reagan, Bush I, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, administration
The Big Disconnect
1 September 2006
805 76 1D+: Clinton
2R-: President Bush, Reagan
1R=
Broken Promises
28 August 2006
829 91 10R-: Bush, Bush administration, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, White House, Bush, Bush, Bush
1R=
Housing Gets Ugly
25 August 2006
816 0
Tax Farmers, Mercenaries and Viceroys
21 August 2006
844 100 6R-: Bush administration, President Bush, White House, Republican Party, Bush administration, administration
Wages, Wealth and Politics
18 August 2006
820 0 1D+: Franklin Roosevelt
1D-: Clinton
1R+: Dwight Eisenhower
1R-: administration
3D=, 4R=
Hoping for Fear
14 August 2006
881 85 4D+: Max Cleland, Democratic, John Kerry, Dems
15R-: Republicans, Bush administration, administration, administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Republicans, Dick Cheney, Bush administration, administration, Republicans, administration, President Bush, Bush, Bush
2D=, 1R=
Nonsense and Sensibility
11 August 2006
967 17 3D+: Ned Lamont, Ned Lamont, Democrats
11D-: Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Joe Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman
4R-: Bush administration, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Republicans
7D=, 3R=
Intimations of Recession
7 August 2006
799 100 2R-: Bush administration, Bush
Centrism Is for Suckers
4 August 2006
865 1 1D+: Democrats
2D-: Democrats, Joe Lieberman
4R+: Lincoln Chafee, Republican, Chafee, Chafee
5R-: Chafee, R, James Inhofe, Republicans, President Bush
5R=
Shock and Awe
31 July 2006
881 100 1D+: Bill Clinton
3R-: Donald Rumsfeld, administration, President Bush
Reign of Error
28 July 2006
857 85 1D+: the Clintons
11R-: administration, administration, administration, Rush Limbaugh, administration, Bush administration, Republican National Committee, administration, administration, Bush administration, Bush
1D=, 1R=
Black and Blue
24 July 2006
889 82 1D+: Clinton
1D-: Strom Thurmond
20R-: President Bush, Bush, G.O.P. , G.O.P. , Bush, Bush, Bush, Republicans, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, Trent Lott, G.O.P. , Bush administration, Bush administration, G.O.P. , Bush, Republican, Republicans, Republicans, Bush
2R=
The Price of Fantasy
21 July 2006
896 76 13R-: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Cheney, president
4R=
March of Folly
17 July 2006
878 27 2D+: Joseph Lieberman, Democrat
1D-: administration
7R+: Paul Wolfowitz, President Bush, President Bush, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, Republican
1R-: Bush
1D=, 5R=
Left Behind Economics
14 July 2006
875 71 5R-: Bush, President Bush, Bush administration, the president, administration
2R=
The New York Paradox
10 July 2006
812 0
The Treason Card
7 July 2006
866 66 8R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, White House, President Bush, Bush, Bush, administration
1D=, 3R=
Class War Politics
19 June 2006
883 59 3D+: Democrats, Democrats, Democratic
2R+: Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower
10R-: Republican, Republican, Republican Party, Republican, Republicans, Republican, President Bush, G.O.P. , Republican, G.O.P.
1D=, 3R=
The Phantom Menace
16 June 2006
824 0
Some of All Fears
12 June 2006
900 38 12D+: Democratic Party, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic Party, Democrats, Howard Dean, Al Gore, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
3D-: Democrats, Obama, Democrats
2R+: President Bush, Bush
1R-: Bush administration
4D=
The DeLay Principle
9 June 2006
830 56 1D-: Max Baucus
8R-: DeLay, DeLay, DeLay, Jon Kyl, Olympia Snowe, DeLay, DeLay, DeLay
3R=
Shameless in the Senate
5 June 2006
863 25 4D-: Max Baucus, Democrat, Democrats, Baucus
8R-: Republican, Republicans, Jon Kyl, Republican, John McCain, Republicans, Republicans, Lincoln Chafee
Secretary, Protect Yourself
2 June 2006
907 53 1D+: Robert Rubin
4R+: Paul O'Neill, Larry Lindsey, Lindsey, Lindsey
14R-: administration, Bush, administration, administration, President Bush, White House, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, the president, Bush, administration, administration
2R=
Swift Boating the Planet
29 May 2006
835 55 2D+: Gore, John Kerry
2R-: first Bush administration, administration
3D=
A Test of Our Character
26 May 2006
869 82 8D+: Al Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore, Gore
1R-: White House
2D=
Talk-Show Joe
22 May 2006
1000 13 1D+: Democratic
16D-: Joseph Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman
12R-: Republican, Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, Republican, Bush, the president, Bush, Bushlike, Republican, Bush
10D=, 3R=
D for Debacle
15 May 2006
855 83 10R-: administration, Bush, administration, Bush administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, Bush, Bush administration
2R=
Our Sick Society
5 May 2006
824 0 1R=
Death By Insurance
1 May 2006
805 0
The Crony Fairy
28 April 2006
910 88 6D+: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, president, Democrats
1R+: Susan Collins
9R-: President Bush, President Bush, President Bush, George W. Bush, Bush administration, president, Bush, administration, president
CSI: Trade Deficit
24 April 2006
808 0
The Great Revulsion
21 April 2006
917 61 14R-: Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Republicans
4D=, 4R=
Enemy of the Planet
17 April 2006
782 100 3R-: White House, President Bush, Bush administration
Weapons of Math Destruction
14 April 2006
911 87 21R-: President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney, administration, Bush, administration, Charles Grassley, Bush, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, Grassley, Bush, Bush administration, administration, administration
1D=, 2R=
Yes He Would
10 April 2006
925 89 1D+: Democrats
24R-: President Bush, president, administration, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, vice president of the United States, The president, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, Bush
3R=
John and Jerry
3 April 2006
884 60 1R+: McCain
10R-: Republican Party, John McCain, Republican, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, Republican Party, Republicans, Republican Party
4R=
The Road to Dubai
31 March 2006
841 15 1D-: Kennedy
2R-: Republican Party, McCain
1D=, 1R=
North of the Border
27 March 2006
812 100 3R-: President Bush, Bush, Bush
Letter to the Secretary
24 March 2006
849 100 10R-: John Snow, Bush, Snow, administration, the president, vice president, Bush, administration, Bush, administration
Bogus Bush Bashing
20 March 2006
952 90 18R-: Bush, George W. Bush, President Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, George W. Bush, Bush
2R=
The Right's Man
13 March 2006
1054 74 25R-: John McCain, Bush, McCain, McCain, Bush, McCain, McCain, Bush, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, Bush administration, President Bush, McCain, Bush, John McCain, George W. Bush, McCain, Republican Party, McCain, White House, Bush administration, McCain, George W. Bush
9R=
The Conservative Epiphany
10 March 2006
953 88 1R+: Reagan
23R-: George W. Bush, Bush administration, President Bush, Bush, Bush administration, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, Bush administration, George W. Bush, administration, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, Bush administration, administration, Bush, administration, administration, Bush, Bush administration
1R=
Feeling No Pain
6 March 2006
867 83 1R+: Bush
11R-: President Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
George the Unready
3 March 2006
896 60 13R-: White House, administration, Bush, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush administration, Republican, Republicans, Abramoff
3D=, 5R=
Graduates Versus Oligarchs
27 February 2006
840 31 1R-: Jack Abramoff
1D=, 1R=
Osama, Saddam and the Ports
24 February 2006
915 72 13R-: Bush administration, administration, administration, Bush administration, President Bush, administration, administration, administration, Bush, Bush, administration, Bush, Bush
5R=
The Mensch Gap
20 February 2006
843 62 1R+: Dwight Eisenhower
9R-: Dick Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, administration, administration, President Bush, Bush
3R=
Debt and Denial
13 February 2006
816 100 5R-: Bush administration, Dick Cheney, Cheney, Bush, Cheney
The Vanishing Future
10 February 2006
884 96 2D+: Bill Clinton, Clinton
19R-: Bush, George W. Bush, administration, President Bush, administration, Bush, administration, administration, administration, Bush administration, Bush, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, administration, Bush
1R=
The Effectiveness Thing
6 February 2006
902 42 7D+: Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Democratic, Democratic
3D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats
7R-: Bush administration, Bush administration, George W. Bush, George Bush, George W. Bush, Bush administration, administration
6D=, 2R=
State of Delusion
3 February 2006
887 68 15R-: President Bush, Bush administration, administration, Bush, Bush, White House, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, Bush, administration, administration, administration, Bush
1D=, 6R=
A False Balance
30 January 2006
1017 91 12D+: Democratic Party, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrat, Democrat
1D-: Democratic
33R-: Bush, Jack Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Republicans, DeLay, Abramoff, DeLay, Abramoff, Republicans, Abramoff, Republicans, Republican, Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Republicans, Abramoff, Republicans, Abramoff, Republicans, Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Republican, Abramoff, Abramoff, Abramoff, Republican
2R=
Health Care Confidential
27 January 2006
828 100 1R-: President Bush
Iraq's Power Vacuum
23 January 2006
826 100 7R-: President Bush, administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, administration, Bush
The K Street Prescription
20 January 2006
897 100 15R-: President Bush, Billy Tauzin, Tauzin, Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, DeLay, Republicans, Jack Abramoff, administration, Bush administration, Abramoff, Scott McClellan, White House, Abramoff, White House
First, Do More Harm
16 January 2006
841 73 8R-: President Bush, administration, Bush administration, administration, administration, Bush, Bush administration, administration
3R=
No Bubble Trouble?
2 January 2006
833 0