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The absurdity of partisanship
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Robert Novak
Creators Syndicate

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



Partisan References

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 488Democratic(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 1042Republican(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



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
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=