| Columns | 68 |
| Words | 61853 |
| Normalized Median Partisanship Index | 15.80 |
| Normalized Total Partisanship Index | 19.72 |
| Normalized Combined Partisanship Index | 17.76 |
| Democratic Index | -27.08 |
| Republican Index | 12.47 |
| Positive Index | 20.77 |
| Negative Index | 22.40 |
| Neutral Index | 56.84 |
| Type | Number | All References |
|---|---|---|
| Positive Democratic | 106 | Democratic(16), Democrats(6), Dean(6), Lieberman(3), Clinton(3), Edwards(2), Democrat(2), Daniel Patrick Moynihan(2), Hillary Clinton(2), Howard Dean(2), Martin Frost(2), Hillary Rodham Clinton(2), Evan Bayh(2), Chet Edwards(2), Daley(2), Chuck Robb, John Breaux, Ronnie Musgrove, Ray Mabus, Deaniacs, John Kerry, Cardin, Joseph Lieberman, Joe Lieberman, Dayton, Robert S. Strauss, Feingold, Pat Moynihan, Mike Mansfield, Walter Mondale, Tom Foley, James Oberstar, Dale Kildee, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Jose Serrano, Chuck Schumer, Boxer, BYRD, Emanuel, President Bill Clinton, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Charles Schumer, Lewis, Becerra, Barney Frank, Mark Pryor, Hillary, former first lady, Eliot Spitzer, Rubin, Taylor, Dodd, Richardson, Reid, Harkin, Mark Warner, Sonny Montgomery, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Bayh, Bob Kerrey, Clinton administration, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, Biden, Paul Sarbanes, Russell Feingold, Bob Casey |
| Negative Democratic | 366 | Dean(47), Democrats(39), Democratic(39), Dodd(24), Biden(19), Democrat(14), DNC(10), Howard Dean(10), John Kerry(7), Clinton(7), Reid(6), Joseph Biden(5), Hillary(5), Taylor(5), Dayton(5), Senate Democrats(5), Schumer(4), Harry Reid(4), Cisneros(4), Sarbanes(3), Kerry(3), Bill Clinton(3), Barbara Boxer(3), Christopher Dodd(3), DEAN(3), Edward M. Kennedy(3), Kennedy(3), Sperling(3), Clinton administration(3), Hillary Clinton(2), Mark Dayton(2), Chris Dodd(2), BOXER(2), Boxer(2), Charles Schumer(2), Senate Democratic(2), President Bill Clinton(2), Dorgan(2), Democratic National Committee(2), Patrick Leahy(2), Daschle(2), Nancy Pelosi(2), Terry McAuliffe(2), Joseph Lieberman(2), Paul Begala, Nelson, Strom Thurmond, Franklin D. Raines, House Democrats, Raines, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, President Clinton, Conrad, Gene Sperling, Frost, Senate Democrat, Sander Levin, Henry Cisneros, Trippi, Bill Richardson, Tim Roemer, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Byron Dorgan, Feingold, Richard Durbin, KERRY, Gen. Wesley Clark, Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic Party, Carl Levin, Democratic House, Robert C. Byrd, DEMOCRAT, Gene Taylor, Ken Salazar, Robert Byrd, Rod Blagojevich, Richardson, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, HARKIN, Tom Harkin, Salazar, former first lady, DALEY, Rockefeller, Mark Pryor, Joe Biden, DURBIN, Dick Durbin, Durbin |
| Neutral Democratic | 488 | Democratic(111), Democrats(56), Democrat(24), Dean(22), Dodd(16), DNC(13), Democratic National Committee(12), Clinton(11), Howard Dean(9), John Kerry(7), Nelson(6), Kerry(6), Ben Nelson(6), Harry Reid(5), Hillary Clinton(5), Daley(5), Jim Blanchard(3), Biden(3), Barbara Boxer(3), Frost(3), Senate Democratic(3), Byrd(3), Christopher Dodd(3), Paul Sarbanes(3), KERRY(2), Joe Lieberman(2), Blanche Lincoln(2), Max Baucus(2), HILLARY(2), Hoyer(2), Joseph Lieberman(2), Kent Conrad(2), Joseph Biden(2), Obama(2), Harold Ford(2), Williams(2), Patrick Kennedy(2), Kennedy(2), Rahm Emanuel(2), Bill Richardson(2), Charles Rangel(2), Tom Vilsack(2), Hillary(2), DEMOCRATIC(2), Durbin(2), Edward M. Kennedy(2), Feinstein(2), DALEY(2), William Daley(2), Senate Democrats(2), Richard M. Daley(2), Barney Frank, Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, Bill Luther, Dayton, House Democratic, Ben Cardin, Cardin, Levin, Joe Trippi, Paul M. Butler, Lyndon B. Johnson, Sam Rayburn, Butler, Joe Biden, Martin Frost, HOWARD DEAN, William Lacy Clay, Jim McGreevey, Thomas Carper, Ron Widen, DEAN, Bill Nelson, Lieberman, George Soros, Soros, House Democrats, Anthony Williams, Raines, Jesse Jackson Jr., Albert Wynn, Wynn, Debbie Stabenow, Bob Casey Jr., Diana DeGette, Ann Lewis, Lewis, James Langevin, Langevin, Bob Casey, Pelosi, President Bill Clinton, Democratic Senate, Democratic party, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Kweisi Mfume, Jon Corzine, Mark Warner, John Glenn, Jane Harman, Ed Rendell, Daniel Inouye, Robert C. Byrd, Jennifer Granholm, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Boxer, Maria Cantwell, Cantwell, Christine Gregoire, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Dorgan, Barbara Mikulski, Feingold, Timothy Bishop, Michael McNulty, Xavier Becerra, Barbara Lee, Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Mark Dayton, Minority Leader Tom Daschle, SPITZER, Robert Byrd, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Vernon Jordan, Rubin, Jordan, Christopher J. Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Baucus, Conrad, Steny Hoyer, Strom Thurmond, Barack Obama, Blagojevich, RICHARDSON, Richardson, Harkin, Warner, Jeff Bingaman, Bingaman, Jay Rockefeller, White House, President Clinton, Patrick Leahy, Charles Schumer |
| Positive Republican | 453 | Bolton(48), Republican(40), Bush(23), Coburn(16), Powell(13), President Bush(12), Gonzales(12), the president(10), Hyde(10), Republicans(9), Bennett(9), McCain(8), Graham(8), Smith(6), Daniels(6), John Bolton(6), Gregg(5), Rice(5), Henry Hyde(5), White House(4), Lugar(4), Chris Smith(4), Roberts(3), Castle(3), Tom Coburn(3), Colin Powell(3), Hubbard(3), RNC(3), Condoleezza Rice(3), Lott(3), Mehlman(3), George W. Bush(3), vice president(3), Boehner(3), John McCain(3), Barbour(3), Norquist(3), Lindsey Graham(3), Ronald Reagan(3), Judd Gregg(3), Romney(3), DeLay(3), Rumsfeld(3), Davidson(2), Jeb Bush(2), Robert Zoellick(2), Kirk(2), Brownback(2), J.C. Watts(2), Irving Kristol(2), Haley Barbour(2), Republican National Committee(2), Mike Pence(2), Cox(2), GOP(2), administration(2), Richard Lugar(2), Toomey(2), Frist(2), Burton(2), Phil Gramm(2), Inhofe(2), Bill Thomas, Richard Armitage, Armitage, Bush administration, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Speaker Dennis Hastert, Duncan Hunter, Chuck Grassley, Joe Wilson, Wilson, Dan Burton, Chertoff, D'Amato, Mark Kennedy, Mark Kirk, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, George Bush, John Tower, president, John Ashcroft, Gale Norton, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, James A. Baker III, Mitch Daniels, Republican party, Bob Taft, James Inhofe, Reagan, Zoellick, Cheney, LOTT, Dick Cheney, Howard Baker, Tom Feeney, Feeney, Henry Kissinger, Wolfowitz, Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, Mike Castle, Giuliani, Lincoln Chafee, Rick Perry, Perry, Christopher Cox, House Republican, Bob Bennett, Mitt Romney, Richard Cheney, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Eisenhower, Steele, Cabinet, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Chafee, Senate Republican, Norm Coleman, Norton, Jim DeMint, Jeff Sessions, Jim Inhofe, LUGAR, Randy Graf, Graf, Pat Toomey, Robert Bennett, Reagan administration, George Allen, Allen, Mitch McConnell, Thomas, Tom DeLay, Rick Santorum, Senate Republican Conference, Rush Limbaugh, Republican National Committtee (RNC), Ken Mehlman, Schwarzenegger, Grover Norquist, Pawlenty, Hunter, Jeane Kirkpatrick, William Ruckelshaus, Richard Baker, Pat Roberts, Theodore Olson, John Sununu, Al Gonzales |
| Negative Republican | 237 | Republican(27), Republicans(12), Bush(11), Chertoff(9), GOP(8), Voinovich(6), President Bush(6), Specter(6), White House(6), Gonzales(5), DeLay(4), Bush administration(4), Gray(4), administration(4), Arlen Specter(3), Nixon(3), Oxley(3), Chafee(3), Kolbe(3), George W. Bush(3), Lincoln Chafee(3), Danforth(3), Bob Taft(3), Dole(2), Condoleezza Rice(2), Republican Party(2), Tom DeLay(2), Boehner(2), Taft(2), Rob Simmons(2), Portman(2), Hutchison(2), Lott(2), Republican Senate(2), Ashcroft(2), George Voinovich(2), McCain(2), the president(2), John McCain(2), Graham(2), Inhofe(2), Santorum(2), Weldon(2), Daniels(2), Richard Armitage, Bolton, Grover Norquist, George Bush, Bob Riley, Mike Huckabee, Don Sundquist, RNC, Jim Gerlach, Bill Owens, Rob Portman, House Republican, Zoellick, Republican-controlled Senate, Gordon Smith, Frist, Elizabeth Dole, Hastert, Castle, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Stephen Friedman, Michael Oxley, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Richard Lugar, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, president, Jack Abramoff, Abramoff, Michael Chertoff, Mitch Daniels, Chuck Hagel, BOLTON, National Republican Senatorial Committee, CHAFEE, Rod Grams, Simmons, Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Ken Mehlman, Mitt Romney, Coburn, Thomas, James Inhofe, Alberto Gonzales, Pawlenty, Bush White House, President Nixon, the President, Dan Burton, Burton, Senate Republican Conference, Pryce, Giuliani, David Weldon, Dave Hobson, Lindsey Graham |
| Neutral Republican | 1042 | Republican(158), Bush(60), Bolton(56), Republicans(53), President Bush(51), George W. Bush(28), White House(24), Romney(21), GOP(19), the president(19), Daniels(14), Hastert(12), House Republican(12), McCain(12), administration(11), Bush administration(9), Lott(8), John Bolton(8), Condoleezza Rice(8), Frist(8), Gonzales(7), Rice(7), Hyde(7), Tom DeLay(7), Smith(6), Chertoff(6), DeLay(6), House Republicans(6), Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist(6), Wolfowitz(6), Trent Lott(5), Chafee(5), Alberto Gonzales(5), Specter(5), Abramoff(5), Graham(5), John McCain(5), Rick Santorum(5), Mitt Romney(5), Thomas(4), Sam Brownback(4), Norquist(4), Republican National Committee(4), Majority Leader Bill Frist(4), president(4), President George W. Bush(4), Arnold Schwarzenegger(4), Castle(4), Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld(4), Bennett(3), Powell(3), Dick Cheney(3), the President(3), Pataki(3), Coburn(3), Lincoln Chafee(3), House Majority Leader Tom DeLay(3), Burton(3), George Romney(3), Ken Mehlman(3), Bill Frist(3), Senate Republican Conference(3), Rumsfeld(3), Grover Norquist(3), Senate Republican(3), Davidson(3), Owens(3), Mitch Daniels(3), Mehlman(3), Vice President Dick Cheney(3), Lugar(3), David Dreier(3), Deborah Pryce(3), Brownback(2), Christopher Shays(2), Portman(2), Olympia Snowe(2), John Boehner(2), Collins(2), Gordon Smith(2), Jerry Lewis(2), Lewis(2), Republican Party(2), Al Hubbard(2), Kay Bailey Hutchison(2), LOTT(2), Republican House(2), Perry(2), John Danforth(2), Danforth(2), REPUBLICAN(2), Oxley(2), RNC(2), John Ashcroft(2), Ted Olson(2), Gale Norton(2), President Ronald Reagan(2), Colin Powell(2), Capito(2), Richard Lugar(2), George Bush(2), Speaker Dennis Hastert(2), Pryce(2), Bill Thomas(2), Pete Domenici(2), Graf(2), Allen(2), Gray(2), Inhofe(2), J. Dennis Hastert(2), Hunter(2), Nixon White House(2), Baker(2), Tom Coburn(2), Murphy(2), Karl Rove(2), McCAIN(2), Jim DeMint(2), The president(2), Giuliani(2), Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz(2), Zoellick(2), Armitage(2), Secretary of State Colin Powell(2), Ronald Reagan(2), Robert J. Dole, George Allen, Don Rumsfeld, FRIST, Rob Simmons, Hubbard, Michael Chertoff, George Pataki, Joann Davidson, Linda Chavez, Jo Ann Davidson, Dan Bartlett, Bush Cabinet, THOMAS, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, HYDE, Henry Hyde, Jim Nicholson, Mark Kennedy, Boehner, Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle, Paul, Chuck Hagel, Rudy Giuliani, Susan Collins, Jesse Helms, Paul Wolfowitz, President George Bush, Hutchison, Robert Zoellick, Treasury Secretary John Snow, Vito Fossella, Mike Oxley, Gerald R. Ford, Feeney, Michael Steele, Tom Kean Jr., Mitch McConnell, CHAFEE, Theodore Olson, Michael Leavitt, Shelley Moore Capito, Republican-controlled Congress, Jack Abramoff, Reagan administration, Ralph Reed, Dino Rossi, Rossi, Candice Miller, James Watt, James Edwards, Raymond Donovan, William Clark, Everett Koop, Kenneth Adelman, Edwin Meese, Porter Goss, Reagan White House, vice president, John Ehrlichman, Wallace Bennett, Norm Coleman, Lindsey Graham, Mike Pence, House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, BUSH, Jim Talent, Thad Cochran, Jim Kolbe, Rick Perry, Kolbe, Bush Administration, Majority Leader Trent Lott, C. Boyden Gray, Elliott Abrams, Agnew, first George Bush administration, BILL THOMAS, John Shadegg, Stephen Hadley, Arlen Specter, ARNOLD, Schwarzenegger, Tim Pawlenty, Pawlenty, Duncan Hunter, Donald Rumsfeld, George Voinovich, Hadley, Alexander Haig, Leonard Garment, Nixon, Patrick Gray, Ruckelshaus, Jim Edgar, Edgar, Republican National Chairman Ken Mehlman, DeWINE, Mike DeWine, Rob Portman, Dennis Hastert, Michael Oxley, Dreier, Joe Knollenberg, Mike Murphy, Michael Castle, Cheney, Pat Robertson, Knollenberg, CHENEY, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Christopher Smith, House Republican Conference, John R. Bolton, Executive branch, Senate Republican Leader Robert J. Dole, Reagan, Dole, Robert Bennett, Jim McCrery, Rove, DeMint, Bush White House, House leadership, Solicitor General Theodore Olson |
| Title/ Date |
words | Norm PI |
Partisan References |
|---|---|---|---|
| No, not Gonzales! 27 June 2005 |
1002 | 3 | 1D-: Senate Democrats 3R+: Al Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales 6R-: Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, the president, Gonzales, Gonzales 6D=, 27R= |
| Bush steaming 25 June 2005 |
938 | 2 | 2D+: Democratic, Bob Casey 5D-: DURBIN, Dick Durbin, Durbin, Democrats, President Bill Clinton 3R+: Bennett, Bennett, Frist 7R-: Santorum, Santorum, Republicans, Republican, David Weldon, Weldon, Weldon 8D=, 27R= |
| Biden playing politics 23 June 2005 |
964 | 39 | 5D+: Democrats, Democratic, Paul Sarbanes, Democratic, Russell Feingold 14D-: Biden, Joseph Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden, Democrat, Biden, Democratic, Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden, Joe Biden 7R+: Bush, President Bush, White House, Bush, Bush, John Sununu, Republican 6D=, 7R= |
| The Bolton charade 20 June 2005 |
970 | 55 | 1D+: Biden 19D-: Dodd, Democratic, Democratic, Joseph Biden, Democrat, Dodd, Dodd, Biden, Democratic, Rockefeller, Chris Dodd, Democrats, Dodd, Biden, Democrats, Charles Schumer, Democrat, Mark Pryor, Dodd 11R+: Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Pat Roberts, Roberts, Roberts, Roberts, Bolton, Bolton 12D=, 11R= |
| Dean vs. Dean 18 June 2005 |
933 | 10 | 5D+: Daley, Clinton administration, Daley, Democrats, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid 10D-: Democratic National Committee, DNC, Howard Dean, DNC, Dean, DNC, Dean, Howard Dean, DALEY, Clinton 4R+: Republican, Henry Hyde, Hyde, President Bush 6R-: Dan Burton, Burton, GOP, Senate Republican Conference, GOP, Pryce 8D=, 18R= |
| Romney is getting ready for '08 16 June 2005 |
951 | 0 | 2D=, 43R= |
| Blair vs. Bush 13 June 2005 |
847 | 7 | 1D-: Joseph Lieberman 2R+: White House, Bush 2R-: John McCain, Republican 4D=, 14R= |
| Bush on immigration 11 June 2005 |
867 | 7 | 1D-: John Kerry 2R+: Republican, Richard Baker 1R-: Republican 4D=, 29R= |
| No to Hillary 9 June 2005 |
970 | 15 | 10D+: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mark Warner, Evan Bayh, Clinton, Clinton, Democratic, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Bayh, Clinton 15D-: Hillary, former first lady, Clinton, Hillary, Clinton, Democratic, Hillary, Hillary, John Kerry, Clinton, Hillary, Clinton, Clinton, Democrats, Hillary Clinton 4R+: Republican, Mehlman, Mehlman, Ronald Reagan 1R-: GOP 15D=, 5R= |
| New confirmation trouble 4 June 2005 |
898 | 10 | 3D+: Richardson, Reid, Harkin 8D-: Rod Blagojevich, Richardson, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, Reid, Reid, HARKIN, Democratic, Tom Harkin 3R-: President Bush, Bush, Republican 14D=, 12R= |
| Felt's motivation might not have been so noble 2 June 2005 |
606 | 33 | 1R+: William Ruckelshaus 6R-: President Nixon, the President, Gray, Nixon, administration, Nixon 8R= |
| Still brutish Senate 30 May 2005 |
1017 | 33 | 1D+: Dodd 13D-: Democrats, Dodd, Joseph Biden, Democrat, Dodd, Democrats, Reid, Democrats, Biden, Dodd, Dodd, Dodd, Robert Byrd 11R+: John Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Frist, Bolton, White House, John Bolton 3R-: Republican, Republican, Bush White House 17D=, 19R= |
| Hillary's bucks 28 May 2005 |
919 | 27 | 6D+: Hillary, Hillary Clinton, former first lady, Evan Bayh, Rubin, Taylor 15D-: Clinton, DEAN, Democratic, Howard Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, DEMOCRAT, Gene Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor 6R+: Republican, Schwarzenegger, Grover Norquist, Pawlenty, Norquist, Hunter 1R-: Pawlenty 11D=, 15R= |
| America's recruiting dilemma 27 May 2005 |
780 | 0 | 2D=, 5R= |
| Senate's sham debate 23 May 2005 |
925 | 34 | 2D+: Mark Pryor, Democrat 10D-: Democrats, Democratic, Kennedy, Daschle, Kennedy, Daschle, Kennedy, Democrats, Democrat, Democrat 5R+: Republican, Republican, Republicans, Gonzales, Republicans 9D=, 14R= |
| Bush and McCain 21 May 2005 |
884 | 1 | 1D-: Democratic 2R+: President Bush, Bush 4R-: Republican, James Inhofe, Inhofe, Inhofe 3D=, 27R= |
| Howard Dean unmuzzled 19 May 2005 |
937 | 72 | 1D+: Barney Frank 24D-: Howard Dean, Howard Dean, Dean, Democratic National Committee (DNC), Dean, Dean, DNC, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Democratic, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Democratic Party, DNC, DNC, Dean, Democratic, Dean, Howard Dean, Dean 10R+: Tom DeLay, Republican, Rick Santorum, Senate Republican Conference, Rush Limbaugh, DeLay, Republican National Committtee (RNC), RNC, Republican, Ken Mehlman 8D=, 2R= |
| Probing the judges 16 May 2005 |
876 | 72 | 7D-: Harry Reid, Reid, Democratic, Reid, Gen. Wesley Clark, Democratic, Democrats 2R+: Republicans, President Bush 2D=, 2R= |
| Hillary vs. Allen 14 May 2005 |
930 | 8 | 2D+: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Becerra 4R+: George Allen, Allen, Mitch McConnell, Thomas 7R-: Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Gray, Gray, Gray, Thomas 18D=, 31R= |
| John Bolton's defender 12 May 2005 |
981 | 32 | 3D-: Dodd, Senate Democrats, Democrats 10R+: John Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Reagan administration, John Bolton, Bolton, Bolton 3R-: Republicans, Republican, Colin Powell 4D=, 13R= |
| Greenspan's final days 9 May 2005 |
771 | 0 | 1R= |
| No Romney in 2008? 7 May 2005 |
931 | 42 | 1D+: Democratic 11D-: Democratic, Democratic, Democrat, Joseph Biden, DEAN, Democratic National Committee, DNC, Howard Dean, Dean, DNC, DNC 13R+: LUGAR, Richard Lugar, Lugar, Lugar, Republicans, Republican National Committee, RNC, Randy Graf, Graf, Pat Toomey, Toomey, Republican, Toomey 6R-: Kolbe, Kolbe, Kolbe, Republican, Rob Simmons, Simmons 1D=, 17R= |
| Investigating the IRS 5 May 2005 |
876 | 87 | 21D-: Henry Cisneros, Democrats, Democratic, Cisneros, Democrats, Senate Democratic, Democrats, Cisneros, President Bill Clinton, Cisneros, Cisneros, Democratic, Clinton administration, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Democratic, Byron Dorgan, Senate Democratic, Dorgan, Richard Durbin, John Kerry, Dorgan 6R+: Republican, Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, Jeff Sessions, Jim Inhofe, Republican 3D=, 1R= |
| Speaker's decision 30 April 2005 |
958 | 22 | 5D+: Democratic, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Charles Schumer, Democrats, Democratic 6R-: DeLay, BOLTON, National Republican Senatorial Committee, CHAFEE, Lincoln Chafee, Republican 6D=, 43R= |
| Senate's Dr. Pain 28 April 2005 |
877 | 54 | 2D-: Harry Reid, Democrat 20R+: Tom Coburn, Coburn, Coburn, Coburn, Coburn, Coburn, Coburn, Coburn, Coburn, Coburn, Phil Gramm, John McCain, Coburn, McCain, Coburn, Coburn, Coburn, Coburn, Coburn, Tom Coburn 6R-: Republican, George Voinovich, Republican, Republican, Arlen Specter, Voinovich 3R= |
| The Bolton fiasco 25 April 2005 |
1054 | 1 | 1D+: Democratic 8D-: Democratic, Democrats, Senate Democrats, Christopher Dodd, Dodd, Dodd, Democrats, Democrats 4R+: Bolton, Bolton, Republican, Norm Coleman 16R-: White House, Republican Senate, Republicans, George Voinovich, Voinovich, White House, Voinovich, Lincoln Chafee, Chuck Hagel, Republicans, Voinovich, Voinovich, Chafee, Chafee, Voinovich, administration 5D=, 33R= |
| Hillary skipping Iowa? 23 April 2005 |
957 | 7 | 1D+: President Bill Clinton 5D-: BOXER, Democratic, Barbara Boxer, Boxer, Democrats 3R+: President Bush, Senate Republican, Republican 4R-: Republican, Jack Abramoff, Abramoff, McCain 27D=, 20R= |
| Walling off Christianity 18 April 2005 |
801 | 41 | 9R+: Henry Hyde, Hyde, Hyde, Hyde, Hyde, Hyde, Hyde, Hyde, Henry Hyde 2R-: Bush administration, president 6R= |
| Showdown on judges 16 April 2005 |
955 | 4 | 4D+: Democratic, Boxer, BYRD, Emanuel 4D-: BOXER, Democratic, Barbara Boxer, Boxer 4R+: Chafee, President Bush, Bush, Bush 1R-: Chafee 10D=, 40R= |
| Why Dodd fights Bolton 14 April 2005 |
1082 | 61 | 20D-: Dodd, Democratic, Christopher Dodd, Democratic, Barbara Boxer, Democrats, Dodd, Dodd, Dodd, Dodd, Dodd, Dodd, Dodd, Dodd, John Kerry, Dodd, Democrats, Democratic, Dodd, Chris Dodd 20R+: Bolton, John Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Bolton, President Bush, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, John Bolton 1R-: Richard Lugar 12D=, 11R= |
| Who's against DeLay? 9 April 2005 |
908 | 21 | 4D-: Democratic, Howard Dean, Dean, Dean 8R+: DeLay, DeLay, Republican, Richard Lugar, Lugar, Lugar, Mehlman, Steele 2R-: Republican Senate, Republican 14D=, 21R= |
| Threat of the auditors 7 April 2005 |
832 | 6 | 5D-: Sarbanes, Democratic, Democrat, Sarbanes, Sarbanes 7R-: Oxley, Bush, Michael Oxley, Republican, Oxley, Oxley, Republican 3D=, 8R= |
| Patrick Kennedy's decision 2 April 2005 |
936 | 20 | 3D-: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic, Pelosi 11R+: Republican, Lincoln Chafee, Rick Perry, Perry, Republican, Republicans, Republicans, Christopher Cox, House Republican, Cox, Cox 3R-: Kay Bailey Hutchison, Hutchison, President Bush 17D=, 16R= |
| Stem cell swap 31 March 2005 |
939 | 7 | 5R+: Mike Castle, Castle, Castle, Castle, Chris Smith 2R-: Republican, Castle 3D=, 32R= |
| Getting out of Iraq II 28 March 2005 |
901 | 31 | 11R+: Henry Kissinger, Condoleezza Rice, Rice, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Rice, Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, Rice, Rice 24R= |
| Baseball politics 26 March 2005 |
889 | 15 | 3D+: Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer 1D-: Hillary Clinton 1R+: Bush 6R-: George W. Bush, President Bush, Elizabeth Dole, Republicans, Dole, Hutchison 16D=, 15R= |
| The Terri Schiavo passion 24 March 2005 |
856 | 38 | 9D+: Democratic, Chet Edwards, Chet Edwards, Edwards, Edwards, Democratic, James Oberstar, Dale Kildee, Jose Serrano 1D-: Democrats 2R+: Republican, Republicans 1R-: Republican Party 5D=, 5R= |
| A vote for spending 21 March 2005 |
896 | 17 | 6D-: Democratic, Democrats, Democratic, House Democrats, Democrat, Democrat 7R+: Republican, Judd Gregg, Gregg, President Bush, Gregg, Judd Gregg, Gregg 10R-: Republican-controlled Senate, Republicans, Gordon Smith, Republican, Frist, Republican, Arlen Specter, Republican, GOP, Republican 17R= |
| GOP disaster warning 19 March 2005 |
884 | 22 | 3D+: Mike Mansfield, Walter Mondale, Tom Foley 6R+: Republican National Committee, RNC, Republican, Howard Baker, Tom Feeney, Feeney 10R-: GOP, RNC, GOP, Jim Gerlach, Rob Simmons, Rob Portman, Portman, Portman, Zoellick, Bush 2D=, 18R= |
| Apostasy in Indiana 17 March 2005 |
963 | 18 | 20R+: Mitch Daniels, Norquist, Bob Taft, Norquist, Daniels, Republican, Jeb Bush, George W. Bush, Daniels, Daniels, Daniels, Daniels, Reagan, Daniels, Republican, Haley Barbour, Barbour, Barbour, Barbour, Haley Barbour 11R-: Grover Norquist, Bob Taft, Daniels, Daniels, Taft, George Bush, Taft, Bob Riley, Mike Huckabee, Don Sundquist, GOP 3D=, 15R= |
| A conservative at the UN 14 March 2005 |
1035 | 17 | 1D+: Pat Moynihan 17R+: the president, Bush, Robert Zoellick, Bush, Bolton, Bolton, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Bolton, Bolton, Irving Kristol, Bolton, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, James A. Baker III 7R-: Bolton, Danforth, administration, administration, Danforth, Danforth, Nixon 23R= |
| Jeb for VP? 12 March 2005 |
931 | 18 | 3D-: Nelson, Strom Thurmond, Joseph Lieberman 7R+: Jeb Bush, Robert Zoellick, Zoellick, LOTT, Ronald Reagan, Irving Kristol, Richard Cheney 2R-: Richard Armitage, Lott 5D=, 33R= |
| Social Security crossroads 10 March 2005 |
912 | 29 | 2D+: Democratic, Daniel Patrick Moynihan 6D-: John Kerry, Reid, Democrats, Paul Begala, Democrats, Democratic 11R+: Robert Bennett, Republican, Bennett, Bob Bennett, Bennett, Bennett, Bennett, Bush, Bennett, Bennett, Bennett 3R-: Bush, Lindsey Graham, Republicans 6D=, 14R= |
| Specter's tactics 7 March 2005 |
983 | 37 | 13D-: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Robert C. Byrd, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Democrat, Ken Salazar, Salazar, Democrats, Patrick Leahy, Democrat 3R+: Republican party, Bush, Republicans 7R-: Specter, Arlen Specter, Specter, Specter, Specter, Specter, Specter 1D=, 17R= |
| Rudy's roadblocks 5 March 2005 |
910 | 45 | 8D-: Democratic, KERRY, John Kerry, Kerry, Democratic, Edward M. Kennedy, Carl Levin, Democratic House 13R+: Lott, Giuliani, Lott, Dick Cheney, vice president, vice president, Mike Pence, Cheney, vice president, Republican, James Inhofe, Inhofe, Inhofe 2R-: Giuliani, Dave Hobson 7D=, 15R= |
| Social Security blues 3 March 2005 |
903 | 8 | 4D-: Democratic, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Democrats 5R+: the president, Lindsey Graham, Republican, Bush, the president 8R-: George W. Bush, Republicans, GOP, President Bush, Republicans, Bush, Graham, Republicans 12D=, 8R= |
| The hinge of history 28 February 2005 |
817 | 33 | 1D-: Edward M. Kennedy 4R+: Romney, Romney, Romney, Mitt Romney 2D=, 8R= |
| Social Security test 26 February 2005 |
883 | 10 | 2D+: Feingold, Howard Dean 2D-: Feingold, Howard Dean 5R+: McCain, McCain, Republican, George W. Bush, Republican 1R-: McCain 5D=, 17R= |
| Latin America's infection 24 February 2005 |
860 | 15 | 2D-: Democratic, Christopher Dodd 2R+: Condoleezza Rice, Rice 4R-: George W. Bush, Republican, Lincoln Chafee, President Bush 1R= |
| Military-industrial complex -- updated 21 February 2005 |
820 | 53 | 10R+: President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican, John McCain, Phil Gramm, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, McCain, John McCain 2R-: Alberto Gonzales, White House 3R= |
| The next Speaker 19 February 2005 |
873 | 20 | 2D-: Dean, Dean 6R+: GOP, J.C. Watts, Boehner, Boehner, Republican, Coburn 2R-: Boehner, Coburn 6D=, 15R= |
| Dean's 'fat chance' 17 February 2005 |
953 | 27 | 5D+: Howard Dean, Dean, Robert S. Strauss, Dean, Democratic 19D-: Democrats, Dean, DNC, Dean, Democrat, Biden, Biden, Dean, Biden, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Democrats, Bill Richardson, Tim Roemer, Dean 1R+: George W. Bush 2R-: Republican, Ken Mehlman 23D=, 3R= |
| Beating Colombia's army 14 February 2005 |
769 | 33 | 1R-: White House 2R= |
| Kerry's continuing campaign 12 February 2005 |
887 | 15 | 3D+: Dean, Dean, Dayton 9D-: Kerry, John Kerry, Kerry, Dean, Trippi, Mark Dayton, Dayton, Dayton, Dayton 1R-: Rod Grams 12D=, 23R= |
| Confirmation politics 7 February 2005 |
1036 | 65 | 6D+: Democrats, Joseph Lieberman, Joe Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman, Lieberman 20D-: Charles Schumer, Schumer, Schumer, Senate Democrats, Schumer, Democrats, Democratic, Democrats, Joseph Biden, Biden, Biden, Senate Democrats, Biden, Democrats, Edward M. Kennedy, Patrick Leahy, Schumer, Harry Reid, Democratic, Democratic 32R+: Alberto Gonzales, White House, Gonzales, Gonzales, President Bush, Gonzales, Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Gonzales, Republican, George Bush, John Tower, Bush, president, John Ashcroft, Gale Norton, Theodore Olson, Norton, Bush, Cabinet, Gonzales, Gonzales, Bush, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, the president, the president, the president, President Eisenhower, President Bush, administration 2D=, 6R= |
| GOP judicial strategy 5 February 2005 |
923 | 22 | 1D+: Cardin 6D-: DEAN, Dean, Dean, Terry McAuliffe, Democratic, Sander Levin 6R+: President Bush, Republican, the president, Karl Rove, Republican, the president 13D=, 25R= |
| The Afghan crisis 3 February 2005 |
825 | 33 | 7R+: Henry Hyde, Hyde, Hyde, Mark Kirk, Kirk, Rumsfeld, Kirk 2R-: Bush administration, Bush administration 6R= |
| Gambling with Dean 31 January 2005 |
911 | 11 | 5D+: Dean, Deaniacs, John Kerry, Martin Frost, Dean 10D-: Dean, Howard Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean 29D=, 1R= |
| A less conservative Bush? 24 January 2005 |
969 | 7 | 5R+: Ronald Reagan, Davidson, Bush, the president, Bush 8R-: Bush, White House, Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Republican, Bob Taft, Bush, Bush 1D=, 27R= |
| Pataki for UN? 22 January 2005 |
956 | 9 | 4D-: Mark Dayton, Senate Democrat, Dayton, Dayton 2R+: Davidson, Mark Kennedy 3R-: Republican, Bob Taft, Mitch Daniels 13D=, 32R= |
| Unyielding Chertoff 17 January 2005 |
897 | 22 | 2D-: Clinton administration, Bill Clinton 5R+: Dan Burton, Burton, Burton, Chertoff, D'Amato 17R-: Chertoff, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Chertoff, Ashcroft, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, the president, Chertoff, Ashcroft, Chertoff, Chertoff, Chertoff, Bush, Chertoff, Bush, Chertoff, Chertoff, Michael Chertoff 1D=, 11R= |
| Bush's new aide 15 January 2005 |
950 | 2 | 4D+: Martin Frost, Democratic, Ronnie Musgrove, Ray Mabus 2D-: Nancy Pelosi, Frost 9R+: Hubbard, President Bush, administration, Hubbard, Hubbard, Lott, Republican, Joe Wilson, Wilson 4R-: White House, Stephen Friedman, Lott, President Bush 24D=, 17R= |
| Social Security rubicon 13 January 2005 |
1032 | 25 | 8D+: Democrats, Democratic, Democratic, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Bob Kerrey, Chuck Robb, John Breaux, Democrats 8D-: Bill Clinton, Conrad, Gene Sperling, Clinton administration, Sperling, Sperling, Democrats, Sperling 23R+: Republican, Lindsey Graham, Graham, Republican, Graham, Graham, Graham, Graham, Chuck Grassley, Judd Gregg, Gregg, Gregg, Bush, Bush, Graham, Graham, Bush, Republicans, Graham, Republican, GOP, the president, Lindsey Graham 1R-: Graham 15D=, 10R= |
| Arrogance on the Hill 10 January 2005 |
911 | 19 | 2D+: Democrat, Sonny Montgomery 2D-: Democrats, Democrats 14R+: Chris Smith, Smith, Smith, Chris Smith, Smith, Smith, Smith, Speaker Dennis Hastert, Smith, Henry Hyde, Duncan Hunter, Republican, Mike Pence, Chris Smith 7R-: House Republican, Republicans, Republican, Tom DeLay, Hastert, DeLay, DeLay 9R= |
| Rising star 8 January 2005 |
881 | 7 | 1D+: Eliot Spitzer 4R+: J.C. Watts, Boehner, Republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger 5R-: Tom DeLay, Boehner, DeLay, Bill Owens, Republicans 9D=, 14R= |
| Non-human cloning 6 January 2005 |
809 | 29 | 2R+: Brownback, Brownback 5R= |
| Colin Powell's legacy 3 January 2005 |
870 | 57 | 20R+: Colin Powell, Colin Powell, Powell, Powell, Powell, Powell, Powell, Richard Armitage, Powell, Bush, Powell, Armitage, Powell, Powell, Bush administration, Powell, Powell, Powell, Powell, Colin Powell 3R-: Condoleezza Rice, Republican Party, Bush administration 7R= |
| Early tax reform? 1 January 2005 |
886 | 13 | 1D+: Lewis 5D-: Franklin D. Raines, Raines, President Clinton, Bill Clinton, Terry McAuliffe 3R+: Bill Thomas, Republican, Republican 1R-: Dole 22D=, 15R= |