By this measure, Mr. Sanders was the most partisan senator from 2017 to 2018, and the fourth most partisan out of 250 senators from 1993 to 2007.
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This is the most partisan administration ... that I've ever seen.
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So, is Barr the most partisan AG in recent memory?
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It will mean everything is subject to the most partisan politics, everything.
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Instead, it's all about maximizing turnout for each side's most partisan supporters.
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Pew Research: Trump's approval rating stable, and the most partisan in history.
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According to University of Chicago Law Professor Nick Stephanopoulos, four of the five most partisan state legislative maps in the last 45 years were drawn since 21625, as were seven of the 2900 most partisan state congressional maps.
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But even the most partisan voters might recoil at such up-is-downism.
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Our government was one of the most partisan and uncompetitive in the nation.
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On both sides, the best informed voters are by far the most partisan.
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But there is value in at least formal neutrality in these most partisan battles.
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This is because the most partisan political activists simply are not persuaded by the facts.
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The televised hearing starting Tuesday will mark the Senate's most partisan fight so far this year.
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How could people be simultaneously at their most partisan and least supportive of their own party?
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They told me that the people most likely to post about politics are the most partisan.
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But the Trump party and its wealthy abettors appear to be proving their most partisan critics right.
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And that's where, usually, the most partisan members of a party far outstrip their more moderate brethren.
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So as the Judiciary Committee went about its work, the most partisan Democrats and Republicans were isolated.
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Whitaker has already been sized-up as the most partisan federal law enforcement chief in recent memory.
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But now he finds himself in the spotlight of perhaps the most partisan fight in politics today.
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For a lot of my colleagues, they hear from the most partisan people almost all the time.
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Kentucky is also home to one of the Republican Party's most partisan figures: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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This was particularly true for some of the most partisan Republicans, like members of the Liberty/Freedom Caucus.
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But how are they supposed to get things done in one of the most partisan environments in years?
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In the end, Pelosi is doing nothing but checking a box for the most partisan people in her party.
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The 10 most partisan years in history have all occurred in the last 16 years, as measured by Gallup.
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Even the most partisan among us would not have been stupid enough to attack Bob Mueller, who is beyond reproach.
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Politicians who get too cozy with their colleagues are immediately branded establishment and face the vitriol of their most partisan constituents.
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It would require only the most partisan, bad intentions of my Democratic colleagues not to be praising and supporting this legislation.
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Chris Cuomo claims his lack of partisanship, but his own brother is one of the most partisan governors in the nation.
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That was during the Gingrich Revolution, so at the time it was the most partisan thing I had ever been through.
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As a result, if you look at Facebook or Twitter a lot, you tend to only see the most partisan opinions.
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And your publisher craftily timed your release exactly to the impeachment hearings, which were perhaps the most partisan moment in history.
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The places that benefited the most from Obamacare also tend to be some of the places with the most partisan voting records.
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But even in these most partisan times, certain moments call out for the nation's leaders to set aside their penchant for bickering.
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If the most partisan could adopt that perspective, it might go some way toward cooling down the temperatures roiling Washington this fall.
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PETER BAKER, currently the chief White House correspondent: We thought it was the most partisan, most divisive era we could ever imagine.
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" Ms. Lofgren is something of an outlier on a panel that she concedes is "one of the most partisan on Capitol Hill.
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"This is the fastest, weakest, thinnest, MOST PARTISAN impeachment in American presidential history," said Representative Matt Gaetz, promptly retweeted by the president.
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In short, Heitkamp's efforts represent a bipartisan exception to the partisan rule on one of the most partisan topics: energy and climate change.
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There is just no way Graham can credibly preach bipartisanship, while he pushes for one of the most partisan bills in recent history.
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It's Me, Margaret, a 2014 edition, is enough to make even the most partisan of '80s cover apologists consider buying a new copy.
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"What we've seen is a process that's led to the most partisan and least credible impeachment in the history of America," said Rep.
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In the House of Representatives, eight of the 10 most partisan maps were created after 2010, including Wisconsin's and two in North Carolina.
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Similarly, most partisan elected officials are tweeting to their supporters, who follow them and fundraise for them, rather than to their critics, who don't.
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A strong inaugural address includes memorable lines that outlive a presidency and a president, soaring rhetoric that even the most partisan politicians can admire.
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The Tea Party has now officially become the Trump Party Trump's financial backers are also the most partisan major-party donors in recent history.
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Pelosi could have sent the articles to the Senate the day that her caucus voted for the flimsiest and most partisan impeachment in history.
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According to a Pew Research report released this past summer, the American electorate is the most partisan it has been in nearly a quarter century.
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Since 2007, he has ranked as one of the top 10 most partisan senators every year but one, said Jamie Spitz of the Lugar Center.
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The Judiciary panel is made up of some of the most partisan members on both sides, and Republicans will launch animated arguments in Trump's defense.
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But those who take advantage are almost always the wealthier, better organized, and most partisan — not exactly the mythical average citizen reformers always envision taking advantage.
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She might be the most partisan minority leader in the history of the House, and she has little interest in bailing out her Republican colleagues. 2.
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And many of the top performing posts, reports Craig Silverman, are among the most partisan in nature: Daily Wire's top story about Kavanaugh confirmation was published Oct.
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In those decades, justices have come and gone, and politicians have used the absence of legal limits to unleash some of the most partisan maps in history.
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His nomination puts the 85-year-old California senator, who is seeking reelection, at the center of one of the Senate's most partisan fights of the year.
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To have their financial livelihoods wrapped up in one of the most partisan political battles in recent American history is akin to a slap in the face.
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"His time in the executive branch and his work for Starr suggested he was one of the most partisan nominees in a long time," Professor Segall said.
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But unlike most partisan disputes, which have two sides — Democratic and Republican — the fight over how to codify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has five.
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision relied on a similar argument, noting that statistical evidence rendered the Pennsylvania districting plan one of the most partisan in American history.
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"What we've seen is a process that's led to the most partisan and least credible impeachment in the history of America," said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
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He righted the ship after Brian Williams departed in very public, very unfavorable fashion and even the most partisan of observers on both sides can't call him polarizing.
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At the time of our first Index, we noted that the previous two Congresses had been the most partisan of the past 20 years covered by the Index.
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Gerrymandered districts and partisan primaries produce politicians who need only listen to 5 percent of the most partisan voters in their party in order to stay in office.
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Cruz seems to have an appetite for bipartisanship lately, which comes off as a little suspect considering that he is the Republican senator with the most partisan track record.
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McConnell and company need to make a priority of grooming candidates that are conservative enough to win GOP primaries in red states – where the most partisan voters hold sway.
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In an earlier decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy said he would consider putting an end to the most partisan gerrymandering if a "workable standard" can be created to measure it.
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And, they can suggest whether they think any of these measures is reliable enough to provide a "workable standard" for the courts to prohibit the most partisan state maps.
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The House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report on Tuesday on the attacks in Libya, ending one of the longest, costliest and most partisan congressional investigations in history.
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When we as voters remain muted, we cede the playing field to the most partisan in America and leave our representatives accountable only to those with the strongest ideological bent.
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Washington, D.C., may be the most partisan place on earth, where anything and everything is judged by which political party you support, rather than the substance of what's being discussed.
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Yet if Mr Barr may be less biddable than Mr Trump would like, he is probably the most partisan nominee the president can reasonably hope to get confirmed by the Senate.
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So far, these two experienced hands, operating in arguably the most partisan atmosphere in U.S. political history, have not found a way to tame the "factional fevers" raging over Trump's impeachment.
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The same research on political media habits also showed that those who were the most partisan in their media consumption were also the most active in a range of political activities.
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The sources described how Pelosi went from an impeachment skeptic to its conductor, and how McCarthy designed a Republican defense, ultimately resulting in the most partisan impeachment in modern American history.
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After hosting nearly two dozen of these dinners across America, I have learned that it's possible to strip away political labels and move beyond stereotypes, even in the most partisan times.
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The most engaged citizens, political scientists have known for years, are almost always the most partisan citizens, and/or those who have the most narrow and high-stakes interests in policy outcomes.
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In a peer-reviewed study published last year, Facebook's data scientists analyzed how 10.1 million of the most partisan American users on the social network navigated the site over a six-month period.
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Even among white voters, which most polls show heavily favor the Republican contender, there was a dead heat between Clinton and Trump — a result that must concern even the most partisan Trump spinners.
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And it was a reminder that while Mr. Pompeo now largely projects an image of moderation as the United States' chief diplomat, he was once one of the most partisan warriors in Washington.
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Mitt Romney may block a subpoena to investigate Hunter Biden & BurismaHe says the investigation "looks political"...Yet when it comes to the MOST partisan impeachment trial in history, Romney votes to convict President Trump?
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Looking at just the most partisan states, not counting the six states Trump won that President Obama carried twice, Republicans would naturally start with a 48 to 40 lead in the battle for the Senate.
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Despite being a key player in the most partisan confirmation process in decades, Collins said she hoped Kavanaugh, a former political operative in the George W. Bush White House, would work to depoliticize the court.
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It is unclear how Mr. Cohen's testimony — alternately self-confident, exasperated, ashamed — will reverberate inside the two political parties, whose most partisan and committed voters view Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump through radically different prisms.
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But in a country that is still so divided following one of the most partisan and contentious elections in history, talking to people everywhere — from Alaska to Rhode Island — is a step in the right direction.
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Now, the court's right-wing majority is preparing to make one of its most partisan decisions in recent memory: approving an explicit attempt to benefit the Republican Party by adding a citizenship question to the census.
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But a recent report by Poland's national broadcasting council found that the most partisan outlets were pro-PiS ones, such as Telewizja Republika and TV Trwam (run by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, an ultra-conservative Catholic priest).
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Editor-in-Chief Bob Cusack will sit down with the congressmen to discuss their visions for bridging the gaps between political parties, especially at a time when the country is seen as being its most partisan.
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"They are comfortably the most partisan participant in the debate, and anyone thinking that they are a vehicle for explaining the pros and cons of being in Europe would be under a complete misconception," he added.
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Editor-in-Chief Bob Cusack will sit down with the congressmen to discuss their visions for bridging the gaps between political parties, especially at a time when the country is seen as being its most partisan.
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"President Trump is making it clear that he stands with the most partisan and anti-lands faction of his party, not the majority of Americans," Jamie Williams, president of the Wilderness Society, said in a statement.
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But unlike most of his predecessors, Judge Kavanaugh spent much of his career engaged in some of the most partisan fights in our nation's recent history — including Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Bill Clinton, the Bush v.
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Should the Supreme Court strike down egregious gerrymandering early next year, Mr. Stephanopoulos said there was a faint chance that some states with the most partisan maps could be forced to redraw them before the 2018 election.
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But aside from fevered true-believers like Stone, who represents the most partisan and conspiratorial anti-Clinton wing of the Republican Party, there might not be much appetite in the Trump camp for taking on this issue directly.
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While some people reflexively argue that gerrymandering is the culprit, Wasserman points out that other factors -- such as the urban cloistering of the most partisan Democratic voters, incumbency and uncontested races -- are also to blame for this possibility.
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Measured by the efficiency gap, four of the five most partisan state legislature maps in the last 45 years were drawn after 2010, said Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, a University of Chicago law professor and lawyer for the plaintiffs.
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The most partisan of fans who were hoping to see one fighter batter the other might have been let down, but the majority of spectators could only have been impressed by what was put forth by both men.
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That is why we were pleased to see an important bit of bridge-building taking place amid the season's rancor, especially because it involves an issue that usually elicits some of the most partisan rhetoric of any – climate change. Sen.
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The finding by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, that there was no evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, dashed the hopes of the most partisan Democrats that the House would impeach the president.
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Consensus in our current circumstances is not possible, but with a supermajority requirement, presidents whose party controls the Senate will no longer be able to push through the most partisan credible nominee, but will have to find someone closer to the center.
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Mr Trump intends to replace him with John Ratcliffe, a conservative congressman from Texas, who has, in the words of Mike Morell, a former deputy CIA director, "the least national security experience and the most partisan political experience of any previous DNI".
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That's what I did as a first lady, when I worked with both Democrats and Republicans to get the Children's Health Insurance Program, when I worked with Tom DeLay, one of the most partisan of Republicans, to reform the adoption and foster care system.
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When Senator Flake says that he's not willing to travel the nomination path, what he's effectively saying is that politicians who aren't willing to give in to the most partisan vices of the extremists who dominate the primaries can no longer compete in American politics.
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In terms of temperament, Trump and McCain are in certain respects very much cut from the same cloth in terms of having a highly personalized approach to politics and little investment in the economic policy debates that are at the core of most partisan conflict.
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Though lawmakers have long deployed the filibuster — a procedural device that allows for continued debate to block or delay a vote — to suit their circumstances, Supreme Court confirmations have been viewed as another matter, insulated at least somewhat from the body's most partisan passions.
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And when he was finished delivering one of the most partisan annual addresses by a president in recent memory, the California Democrat made a show of tearing up her copy of the prepared text of his address, which she later called a "manifesto of mistruths" (The Hill).
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Reporting from inside the convention hall corrected the solidifying narrative of a party in shambles; and the basic competence, and occasional brilliance, of the stagecraft left no room for anyone other than the most partisan operatives to pretend the two conventions and parties are equally broken.
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"We are issuing our own report today because, after spending more than two years and $28503 million in taxpayer funds in one of the longest and most partisan congressional investigations in history, it is long past time for the select committee to conclude its work," Democrats said.
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"We are issuing our own report today because, after spending more than two years and $7 million in taxpayer funds in one of the longest and most partisan congressional investigations in history, it is long past time for the select committee to conclude its work," Democrats said.
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WHY WE DON'T SUCK By Dr. Denis Leary (Crown Archetype, $27.) Leary, the actor and co-creator of the FX series "Rescue Me" (and doctor by honorary degree), takes "equal opportunity aim" at the most partisan issues of our political moment with a mission to #MakeAmericaLaughAgain.
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"We are issuing our own report today because, after spending more than two years and $7 million in taxpayer funds in one of the longest and most partisan congressional investigations in history, it is long past time for the select committee to conclude its work," they said.
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For all the reasons we've discussed, the bulk of opinionated political media is written for the side that already agrees with the author, and most partisan elected officials are tweeting to their supporters, who follow them and fundraise for them, rather than to their critics, who don't.
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But, in the past two weeks, Trump has made things easier for certain Republicans: those elected officials still seeking what Senator Lindsey Graham has called an "off-ramp," by which they can justify to the most partisan of their constituents and colleagues renouncing the Party's nominee.
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While the judges in the North Carolina case disagreed in general on how much partisanship could be injected into the map-drawing process, they all agreed that North Carolina Republicans had gone too far by shutting out Democrats and explicitly attempting to build the most partisan plan possible.
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But here are Tuesday night's and Wednesday morning's headlines... Speech audience was most partisan since 2001 Tuesday night's address "drew a deeply Republican audience which largely gave the President strong reviews for his address from the House chamber, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS," Jennifer Agiesta writes.
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The Judiciary Committee is one of the most partisan panels in Congress, stacked with lawmakers from the reddest or bluest districts in the country, and with the retirement or defeat of many Republican moderates in the House this year, the remaining minority is even more loyal to Mr. Trump.
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To put this data to the test, we went to one of the most partisan places in America this week — the Republican National Convention in Cleveland — with the goal of matchmaking a male Trump supporter with a female Clinton supporter to see if the situation is as dire as it seems.
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Her death last week at 88 after a fall at her home in Washington cost Congress one of its unique personalities — a rare lawmaker who was respected, admired and held in great affection by members of both parties even as she served in one of the most partisan positions in the House.
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Trump is helped by a humming economy, the possibility of some trade deal resolutions in 2020 — and a left fringe that has not so much jumped off a cliff as catapulted itself into the Grand Canyon, and whose primary accomplishment is the most partisan impeachment (it's a fact!) this country has ever witnessed.
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"It is clearly the most partisan court ever, where you can actually look at Republican and Democrat and use that as a proxy for voting and behavior on the court," said Neal E. Devins, the Sandra Day O'Connor professor of law at the College of William and Mary, who has studied the partisan evolution of the court.
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Rather than taking advantage of his honeymoon phase to pick an issue on which Democrats from conservative states might be amenable — fixing the nation's crumbling infrastructure, cutting taxes or stiffening immigration laws — Mr. Trump raced toward the most partisan corner of the room, pushing to repeal the health care law with no input from Democrats, in a manner that has proved deeply unpopular.
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In the 1998 election, we promised to impeach Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 85033 Buckingham Palace: Any suggestion Prince Andrew was involved in Epstein scandal 'abhorrent' The magic of majority rule in elections MORE because he lied about his sex life, but that excited only the most partisan of the conservative base.
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House Democrats are poised to take the historic step of impeaching President TrumpDonald John TrumpRepublican group targets Graham in ad calling for fair Senate trial Democratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump attacks Schumer at fiery rally in Michigan MORE on Wednesday, marking what will be the most partisan vote to remove a sitting president since the country's founding.
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