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The absurdity of partisanship
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Peggy Noonan
WSJ OpinionJournal

Columns 25
Words 36727
Normalized Median Partisanship Index 5.85
Normalized Total Partisanship Index 15.05
Normalized Combined Partisanship Index 10.45
Democratic Index 6.74
Republican Index 29.25
Positive Index 38.83
Negative Index 22.13
Neutral Index 39.04



Partisan References

Type Number All References
Positive Democratic 94 Obama(32), President Obama(7), Barack Obama(6), FDR(6), Democrats(6), president(5), the president(4), JFK(3), The president(3), White House(3), Kennedy(2), Michelle Obama(2), John F. Kennedy(2), the Kennedys, Democratic, Obamas, the president-elect, Favreau, Teddy Kennedy, Democrat, Douglas Schoen, Schoen, Obamaland, Pelosi, Democratic House, Jimmy Carter
Negative Democratic 76 Obama(17), administration(6), President Obama(5), Democrats(5), Obama administration(5), Bill Clinton(4), Blago(3), the president(3), White House(3), Congress(2), Democratic(2), Nancy Pelosi(2), Clinton(2), The president(2), Sebelius(2), Kennedy, Barney Frank, Harry Reid, Jimmy Carter, Clintonian, Obama's administration, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, Democratic Party, president, President Barack Obama, presidential
Neutral Democratic 97Obama(31), the president(11), administration(7), president(5), Barack Obama(4), White House(4), Democrats(4), Hillary Clinton(3), President Obama(3), Democrat(3), Democratic(3), Caroline Kennedy, JFK, FDR, Obamanomics, The president-elect, Jon Favreau, Joe Kennedy, Obama administration, Tim Geithner, Robert Gibbs, Janet Napolitano, Kathleen Sebelius, Democratic administration, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Teddy Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Kennedy, Obama's White House
Positive Republican 92 Reagan(23), Kemp(14), Ronald Reagan(8), Republican(5), Republicans(5), Jack Kemp(3), Conway(3), James Baker(3), Cheney(2), Bush administration(2), Coburn(2), Eisenhower(2), Mitch McConnell, the Bushes, House Republicans, Mike Pence, Dick Cheney, Bush I, Tom Coburn, Bush, John McCain, Jack F. Kemp, Kellyanne Conway, George H.W. Bush, Roth, GOP, McConnell, Baker, The Gipper, the president, White House, the Gipper
Negative Republican 30 Republicans(9), Bush(4), George W. Bush(3), Republican Party(2), Ronald Reagan, Republican, administration, Cheney, Specter, Republican party, White House, GOP, Newt Gingrich, Steele, Michael Steele, John McCain
Neutral Republican 90Republicans(28), Republican(17), Bush(5), GOP(5), Reagan(3), Cheney(3), Rush Limbaugh(3), George W. Bush(2), Dick Cheney(2), Rush(2), Jenna Bush, Richard Nixon, Nixon, President Bush, Arlen Specter, Jim DeMint, Bob Dole, Republican party, Kemp, John McCain, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Newt Gingrich, John Anderson, Howard Baker, Ronald Reagan, Republican Party, Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, Mike Pence



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-Do List: A Sentence, Not 10 Paragraphs
26 June 2009
1475 33 2D+: John F. Kennedy, FDR
8D-: president, the president, President Barack Obama, administration, administration, Obama, presidential, Obama
6D=, 1R=
Whose Side Are We On? You Have to Ask?
19 June 2009
1417 63 3D+: president, President Obama, Obama
1R-: John McCain
1D=, 1R=
The Case for Getting off Base
12 June 2009
1606 6 8D+: Democrats, President Obama, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, White House, Obama, Democrats, FDR
4D-: Democrats, Al Gore, Democratic Party, Obama administration
3R+: Jack Kemp, Republican, Republican
3R-: Republican Party, Steele, Michael Steele
9D=, 20R=
The Only Statue That Is Smiling
5 June 2009
1558 77 3D+: Pelosi, Democrats, Democratic House
30R+: Ronald Reagan, Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, James Baker, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, McConnell, Reagan, James Baker, Reagan, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Baker, Reagan, The Gipper, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, the president, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, White House, Ronald Reagan, Republicans, the Gipper, Reagan, James Baker
3D=, 4R=
Republicans, Let's Play Grown-Up
1 June 2009
1521 6 4D+: Democrats, White House, Obamaland, President Obama
6D-: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Democrats, Democrats, Ted Kennedy, Obama
2R+: Republicans, GOP
2R-: Republicans, Newt Gingrich
1D=, 8R=
Those Who Make Us Say 'Oh!'
22 May 2009
1453 32 1D+: John F. Kennedy
1R+: Eisenhower
What's Elevated, Health-Care Provider?
15 May 2009
1419 27 8D-: Sebelius, Sebelius, Obama administration, Obama, Obama administration, Obama, administration, administration
1R-: George W. Bush
5D=, 4R=
He Had the Power of the Happy Man
8 May 2009
1616 63 4D+: Barack Obama, JFK, JFK, Kennedy
29R+: Jack Kemp, Jack F. Kemp, Kemp, Kemp, Kellyanne Conway, Conway, Kemp, Conway, Kemp, Conway, George H.W. Bush, Kemp, Kemp, Kemp, Kemp, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Kemp, Roth, Kemp, Reagan, Kemp, Reagan, Reagan, Kemp, Kemp, Kemp, Jack Kemp
2R-: GOP, Republicans
1D=, 6R=
Republicans need less enforcement and more encouragement.
1 May 2009
1493 38 6D+: President Obama, Obama, Democrats, FDR, Democrats, FDR
2R+: Ronald Reagan, Reagan
9R-: Republicans, Republicans, Specter, Republican Party, Republican party, Republicans, Republicans, Bush, White House
1D=, 12R=
Past, President and Future
24 April 2009
1474 28 10D+: Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, White House, the president, the president, Obama
2D-: Barack Obama, White House
1R+: John McCain
1R-: George W. Bush
5D=, 4R=
Goodbye Bland Affluence
17 April 2009
1314 0
Lessons From the Recovery of 2001
10 April 2009
1441 0
Obama's Domestic Agenda Gains Clarity
3 April 2009
1557 11 9D+: Barack Obama, Obama, Michelle Obama, Douglas Schoen, Schoen, the president, FDR, Obama, The president
6D-: Obama, President Obama, Obama, Democrats, Obama, Obama
5R+: Tom Coburn, Republican, Coburn, Coburn, Bush
1R-: Republicans
12D=, 2R=
Neither a Hedgehog Nor a Fox
20 March 2009
1503 43 11D-: Obama's administration, administration, The president, administration, The president, Obama, Obama, White House, the president, Obama administration, Obama
5R+: Reagan, Bush administration, Bush administration, Cheney, Reagan
1R-: Cheney
11D=, 5R=
There's No Pill for This Kind of Depression
13 March 2009
1388 100 1D-: President Obama
A Tragedy of Errors, and an Accounting
6 March 2009
1465 44 5D-: White House, Clinton, President Obama, Obama, Obama administration
1R-: administration
Obama Dons the Presidential Cloak
27 February 2009
1560 17 11D+: Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Obama, Michelle Obama, Obama, The president, FDR, the president, Obama, Obama
2D-: Clintonian, Bill Clinton
2R+: Bush I, Reagan
1R-: George W. Bush
12D=, 5R=
Remembering the Dawn of the Age of Abundance
20 February 2009
1367 0
Is 'Octomom' America's Future?
13 February 2009
1388 2 2D-: President Obama, Blago
1R-: Republicans
Bracing Ourselves
6 February 2009
1456 19 8D-: President Obama, Obama, Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Democrats, Democratic
3R+: Dick Cheney, Cheney, Republicans
3R-: Bush, Republicans, Republican
5D=, 9R=
Look at the Time
30 January 2009
1484 45 2D+: president, The president
7D-: Congress, the president, Blago, Congress, Democratic, Bill Clinton, Obama
4R+: Republican, House Republicans, Mike Pence, Republicans
6D=, 3R=
Meet President Obama
21 January 2009
1418 45 14D+: President Obama, Teddy Kennedy, Kennedy, President Obama, president, Obama, Democrat, Obama, Obama, president, Obama, Obama, Obama, President Obama
1D-: Bill Clinton
2R+: the Bushes, Republicans
2R-: Ronald Reagan, Bush
4D=, 1R=
Suspend Your Disbelief
16 January 2009
1491 51 12D+: Obama, Obamas, Obama, Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, the president-elect, JFK, Obama, Favreau, Obama, president
1R+: Reagan
4D=, 1R=
Mere Presidents
9 January 2009
1439 15 3D+: Obama, Obama, Obama
4D-: Blago, Barney Frank, Harry Reid, Jimmy Carter
2R+: Republican, Mitch McConnell
1R-: Bush
5D=, 1R=
In With the New
2 January 2009
1424 7 2D+: the Kennedys, Democratic
1D-: Kennedy
6D=, 3R=