| Analysis of Ideological/Bipartisan Ratios
Warning Note: For whatever reason, Google doesn't work as it should. There are pages not picked up in the search for these labels that are picked up when we add some of the search terms below. For that reason, it is not possible to do direct comparisons on an line-by-line basis. In fact, the entire analysis is shakey, given that the search function obviously doesn't function as it should. However, it seems highly plausible that whatever the problem is, the searches used below are comparable, since they are all structurally similar. At least it seemed plausible enough to me to run this analysis.
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With the above warning note in mind, the following table should be seen as a rough benchmark, rather than as a gospel overview. It's worth noting that the ratios from this table do not fall in the middle range of the issues surveyed, which could have any number of reasons, and is probably due to several of them in combination.
We see quite clearly that four GOP candidates are extremely ideological in their use of "conservative" vs. "bipartisan," with ratios of 100 or more. The mid range of double digits finds three Democrats-Kucinich, Richardson and Edwards-and two Republicans-Paul and McCain. Tancredo is the only Republican under 10, while four insider Democrats are all under 5. In the analysis below we will see these four very consistently in these positions, sometimes joined by Richardson, who is, as a matter of biographical fact, very much a party insider. However, he has also been a governor, and of course is also Latino. His outspoken stance on withdrawing from Iraq is a reflection of a greater degree of independent thinking on his part, even though he is in many respects an insider.
| Ideology/Bipartisan Ratios - All | | Candidates | Ideological label | "Bipartisan" | Ratio | | MittRomney.com: | 2520 | 10 | 252.00 | | MikeHuckabee.com: | 1060 | 5 | 212.00 | | Fred08.com: | 749 | 7 | 107.00 | | JoinRudy2008.com: | 720 | 7 | 102.86 | | Rep Totals: | 5584 | 65 | 85.91 | | Dennis4President.com: | 617 | 15 | 41.13 | | Ronpaul2008.com: | 51 | 2 | 25.50 | | RichardsonforPresident.com: | 1710 | 85 | 20.12 | | JohnMcCain.com: | 467 | 32 | 14.59 | | JohnEdwards.com: | 4390 | 302 | 14.54 | | Teamtancredo.org: | 17 | 2 | 8.50 | | Dem Totals: | 13442 | 2361 | 5.69 | | BarackObama.com: | 6360 | 1280 | 4.97 | | HillaryClinton.com: | 305 | 91 | 3.35 | | ChrisDodd.com: | 39 | 22 | 1.77 | | JoeBiden.com: | 21 | 566 | 0.04 | | | Rep Totals/Dem Totals: | -- | -- | 15.09 |
Social Security
On Social Security, John Edwards is roughly equal to the four most ideological Republican candidates. Dennis Kucinich is about half as ideological. This is much tighter than the over-all numbers, and is reflected in the ratio of Rep to Dem totals: 3.39 compared to 15.09.
Ideology/Bipartisan Ratios
With "Social Security" | | Candidates | Ideological label | Bipartisan | Ratio | | Teamtancredo.org: | 3 | 0 | -- | | Fred08.com: | 320 | 11 | 29.09 | | MikeHuckabee.com: | 57 | 2 | 28.50 | | Ronpaul2008.com: | 49 | 2 | 24.50 | | JohnEdwards.com: | 321 | 15 | 21.40 | | MittRomney.com: | 19 | 1 | 19.00 | | Rep Totals | 481 | 28 | 17.18 | | Dennis4President.com: | 21 | 2 | 10.50 | | Dem Totals | 745 | 146 | 5.10 | | BarackObama.com: | 345 | 78 | 4.42 | | ChrisDodd.com: | 3 | 1 | 3.00 | | JohnMcCain.com: | 28 | 10 | 2.80 | | JoinRudy2008.com: | 5 | 2 | 2.50 | | RichardsonforPresident.com: | 22 | 12 | 1.83 | | HillaryClinton.com: | 28 | 20 | 1.40 | | JoeBiden.com: | 5 | 18 | 0.28 | | Rep Totals/Dem Totals: | -- | -- | 3.37 |
Iraq
On Iraq, more than half the Republican field is extremely ideological, although Tancredo and Paul don't talk about it that much. It's worth noting that Paul is being pitched as an anti-war savior to disillusioned anti-war progressives, but on his website is totally ideological, and not one bit bipartisan.
Next, there is a middle range, roughly from Thompson at 24.72 to Richardson at 9.20, with three Republicans and three Democrats. And there is a lower range of Washington insider types, from Obama at 5.09 to Biden at 0.08, which is entirely Democratic. It is significantly more ideological than Social Security, with an overall ratio of Rep to Dem totals of 5.34. But that's nothing compared to the Republican's preferred framing in terms of terrorism/terror, as seen just below.
Ideology/Bipartisan Ratios
With "Iraq" | | Candidates | Ideological label | Bipartisan | Ratio | | Ronpaul2008.com: | 15 | 0 | -- | | Teamtancredo.org: | 4 | 0 | -- | | MittRomney.com: | 303 | 1 | 303.00 | | MikeHuckabee.com: | 172 | 3 | 57.33 | | Rep Totals | 1196 | 47 | 25.45 | | Fred08.com: | 445 | 18 | 24.72 | | Dennis4President.com: | 219 | 11 | 19.91 | | JohnEdwards.com: | 3690 | 260 | 14.19 | | JoinRudy2008.com: | 63 | 5 | 12.60 | | JohnMcCain.com: | 194 | 20 | 9.70 | | RichardsonforPresident.com: | 681 | 74 | 9.20 | | BarackObama.com: | 6310 | 1240 | 5.09 | | Dem Totals | 11315 | 2373 | 4.77 | | ChrisDodd.com: | 69 | 31 | 2.23 | | HillaryClinton.com: | 297 | 144 | 2.06 | | JoeBiden.com: | 49 | 613 | 0.08 | | Rep Totals/Dem Totals: | -- | -- | 5.34 |
Terror/Terrorism
Testing the words "terror and terrorism" produces a significantly different picture. Paul has virtually no data, but is entirely ideological. Romney is almost twice as ideological as the next Republican, Thompson, followed closely by Huckabee. In turn, Edwards and Guiliani are about half as ideological as Thompson and Huckabee. Then there's a sharp fall-off to Kucinich, McCain and Tancredo, and the basement of 5 insider Democrats-with Richardson dropping his maverick status. The overall result is that the overall ratio of Rep to Dem totals is almost twice as high as for Iraq-10.19 compared to 5.34. This is a clear indication of the ideological function of the "war on terror" frame, and it doesn't seem like an accident that Edwards-who has explicitly challenged that frame-is far and away the most ideological Democrat, leading even Kucinich by almost 4-1, and the next nearest-Obama-by more than 10-1.
Ideology/Bipartisan Ratios
With "Terrorism/Terror" | | Candidates | Ideological label | Bipartisan | Ratio | | Ronpaul2008.com: | 2 | 0 | -- | | MittRomney.com: | 248 | 3 | 82.67 | | Fred08.com: | 440 | 10 | 44.00 | | MikeHuckabee.com: | 157 | 4 | 39.25 | | Rep Totals | 1007 | 36 | 27.97 | | JohnEdwards.com: | 490 | 20 | 24.50 | | JoinRudy2008.com: | 83 | 5 | 16.60 | | Dennis4President.com: | 41 | 6 | 6.83 | | JohnMcCain.com: | 73 | 13 | 5.62 | | Teamtancredo.org: | 4 | 1 | 4.00 | | Dem Totals | 1342 | 489 | 2.74 | | BarackObama.com: | 724 | 338 | 2.14 | | RichardsonforPresident.com: | 43 | 23 | 1.87 | | ChrisDodd.com: | 12 | 10 | 1.20 | | HillaryClinton.com: | 19 | 23 | 0.83 | | JoeBiden.com: | 13 | 69 | 0.19 | | Rep Totals/Dem Totals: | -- | -- | 10.19 |
Immigration
Immigration provides even more of an ideological edge for conservatives than terror/terrorism, due primarily to two candidates, Romney and Huckabee, both of whom score over 100. Thompson, Paul, Kucinich and Edwards form a middle tier, with the later three virtually tied. Tancredo and Guiliani head up the remaineder at below 10. Biden, as usual, is highly allergic to using the word "progressive."
The overall ratio of Rep to Dem totals--16.92-is over 50% higher than the ratio for terror/terrorism.
Ideology/Bipartisan Ratios
With "Immigration" | | Candidates | Ideological label | Bipartisan | Ratio | | MittRomney.com: | 2500 | 13 | 192.31 | | MikeHuckabee.com: | 226 | 2 | 113.00 | | Rep Totals | 3355 | 53 | 63.30 | | Fred08.com: | 447 | 12 | 37.25 | | Ronpaul2008.com: | 50 | 2 | 25.00 | | Dennis4President.com: | 22 | 1 | 22.00 | | JohnEdwards.com: | 501 | 25 | 20.04 | | Teamtancredo.org: | 19 | 2 | 9.50 | | JoinRudy2008.com: | 47 | 5 | 9.40 | | ChrisDodd.com: | 8 | 1 | 8.00 | | RichardsonforPresident.com: | 443 | 59 | 7.51 | | BarackObama.com: | 6190 | 1250 | 4.95 | | JohnMcCain.com: | 66 | 17 | 3.88 | | Dem Totals | 7502 | 2005 | 3.74 | | HillaryClinton.com: | 255 | 121 | 2.11 | | JoeBiden.com: | 83 | 548 | 0.15 | | Rep Totals/Dem Totals: | -- | -- | 16.92 |
Health Care
Interestingly, health care is almost as ideologically favorable for conservatives as immigration--14.69 compared to 16.92-and this is largely the doing of one candidate: Romney, whose calling card, ironically, is the Massachussettes plan, which was, of necessity, a bipartisan creation. Let it never be said that Republican campaigns have anything to do with reality. Coming down from the stratoshpere, there's a slightly bifrucated middle tier of Kucinich and Huckabee, followed by Guiliani and Edwards. Ron Paul at 9 heads the remainder, with all the remaining Democrats below 5.
Ideology/Bipartisan Ratios
With "Health Care" | | Candidates | Ideological label | Bipartisan | Ratio | | Teamtancredo.org: | 5 | 0 | -- | | MittRomney.com: | 2490 | 12 | 207.50 | | Rep Totals | 2901 | 43 | 67.47 | | Dennis4President.com: | 169 | 6 | 28.17 | | MikeHuckabee.com: | 177 | 7 | 25.29 | | JoinRudy2008.com: | 72 | 4 | 18.00 | | JohnEdwards.com: | 3810 | 260 | 14.65 | | Ronpaul2008.com: | 18 | 2 | 9.00 | | Fred08.com: | 99 | 12 | 8.25 | | JohnMcCain.com: | 40 | 6 | 6.67 | | BarackObama.com: | 6190 | 1240 | 4.99 | | Dem Totals | 10638 | 2317 | 4.59 | | RichardsonforPresident.com: | 167 | 59 | 2.83 | | HillaryClinton.com: | 235 | 137 | 1.72 | | ChrisDodd.com: | 20 | 12 | 1.67 | | JoeBiden.com: | 47 | 603 | 0.08 | | Rep Totals/Dem Totals: | -- | -- | 14.69 |
Global Warming
The only issue surveyed on which Democrats are more ideological in their identifications than Republicans was global warming: The overall ratio of Rep to Dem totals was 0.58. But, as we'll see in a moment, this is merely a result of the fact that Republicans, follwoing Frank Luntz, largely don't use the term. Things change considerably when we use the term "climate change." There were just 35 GOP mentions of "global warming" compared to 5912 by Democrats, a ratio of 1: 168.9. Six GOP candidates used "global warming" a combined total of 19 times together with "conservative" and not once with "bipartisan." The only GOP candidate to use "global warming" and "bipartisan" together was McCain. Richardson was far and away the most ideological of the Democrats at 56.93, followed by Edwards at 15.22. At 8.5, Kucinich heads the remainder.
Ideology/Bipartisan Ratios
With "Global Warming" | | Candidates | Ideological label | Bipartisan | Ratio | | MikeHuckabee.com: | 12 | 0 | -- | | MittRomney.com: | 3 | 0 | -- | | Fred08.com: | 2 | 0 | -- | | Teamtancredo.org: | 1 | 0 | -- | | Ronpaul2008.com: | 1 | 0 | -- | | JoinRudy2008.com: | 0 | 0 | -- | | RichardsonforPresident.com: | 854 | 15 | 56.93 | | JohnEdwards.com: | 3820 | 251 | 15.22 | | Dem Totals | 5388 | 524 | 10.28 | | Dennis4President.com: | 34 | 4 | 8.50 | | Rep Totals | 30 | 5 | 6.00 | | BarackObama.com: | 443 | 87 | 5.09 | | ChrisDodd.com: | 10 | 4 | 2.50 | | JohnMcCain.com: | 11 | 5 | 2.20 | | HillaryClinton.com: | 224 | 140 | 1.60 | | JoeBiden.com: | 3 | 23 | 0.13 | | Rep Totals/Dem Totals: | -- | -- | 0.58 |
Climate Change
Things shift dramatically with the term "climate change," which the Republicans use roughly four times as often as Democrats, 5156 to 1247. Kucinich uses the term rarely, but never together with "bipartisan." After him, there are four Republicans over 100: Romney, McCain, Huckabee and Guiliani. Paul and Edwards are both in the 20s, followed by Thompson and Tancredo at 9/10, and the five Democratic insiders all well below 5. Indeed, almost single-handedly, Biden pulls the Democratic total below 1.00. Collectively, Democrats use "bipartisan" more often then "progressive" when talking about "climate change." The overall ratio of Rep to Dem totals was a whopping 210.04.
Ideology/Bipartisan Ratios
With "Climate Change" | | Candidates | Ideological label | Bipartisan | Ratio | | Dennis4President.com: | 9 | 0 | -- | | MittRomney.com: | 2510 | 10 | 251.00 | | JohnMcCain.com: | 469 | 2 | 234.50 | | MikeHuckabee.com: | 1110 | 5 | 222.00 | | Rep Totals | 5121 | 35 | 146.31 | | JoinRudy2008.com: | 889 | 7 | 127.00 | | Ronpaul2008.com: | 53 | 2 | 26.50 | | JohnEdwards.com: | 204 | 10 | 20.40 | | Fred08.com: | 72 | 7 | 10.29 | | Teamtancredo.org: | 18 | 2 | 9.00 | | BarackObama.com: | 192 | 61 | 3.15 | | RichardsonforPresident.com: | 34 | 12 | 2.83 | | ChrisDodd.com: | 7 | 3 | 2.33 | | Dem Totals | 512 | 735 | 0.70 | | HillaryClinton.com: | 15 | 26 | 0.58 | | JoeBiden.com: | 51 | 623 | 0.08 | | Rep Totals/Dem Totals: | -- | -- | 210.04 |
"Global Warming" AND "Climate Change" Combined
Combing the figures from the two previous tables, we get the following table for "global warming" and/or "climate change," showing a still huge overall ratio of Rep to Dem totals: 27.48. We have Romney and Huckabee over 200, Guiliani over 100 and McCain over 50. The first two are so extreme that Guiliani actually drags the GOP total down slightly. Richardson is the most ideological Democrat at just under 33, relatively close to Paul at 27. Edwards, Kucinich, Thompson and Tancredo form a lower middle tier from 15.42 to 9.5, and the remaining four Democratic insiders are all under 5, lead by Obama, as usual.
Ideology/Bipartisan Ratios
With "Global Warming" And/Or "Climate Change" | | Candidates | Ideological label | Bipartisan | Ratio | | MittRomney.com: | 2513 | 10 | 251.30 | | MikeHuckabee.com: | 1122 | 5 | 224.40 | | Rep Totals | 5151 | 40 | 128.78 | | JoinRudy2008.com: | 889 | 7 | 127.00 | | JohnMcCain.com: | 480 | 7 | 68.57 | | RichardsonforPresident.com: | 888 | 27 | 32.89 | | Ronpaul2008.com: | 54 | 2 | 27.00 | | JohnEdwards.com: | 4024 | 261 | 15.42 | | Dennis4President.com: | 43 | 4 | 10.75 | | Fred08.com: | 74 | 7 | 10.57 | | Teamtancredo.org: | 19 | 2 | 9.50 | | Dem Totals | 5900 | 1259 | 4.69 | | BarackObama.com: | 635 | 148 | 4.29 | | ChrisDodd.com: | 17 | 7 | 2.43 | | HillaryClinton.com: | 239 | 166 | 1.44 | | JoeBiden.com: | 54 | 646 | 0.08 | | Rep Totals/Dem Totals: | -- | -- | 27.48 |
Abortion
We now turn to two taditional red meat "social issues" for conservatives-abortion and gays-only to find that the GOP's ideological edge is considerably dulled. Except for the anomaly of "global warming," which the GOP shuns using, every issue we've looked at since Iraq has a better than 10-1 GOP to Dem ration in the use of ideological language. But suddenly, we're back down below 10. The ratio for abortion is a still substantial 6.86-more than the 5.34 for Iraq, but less than the 10.19 for terror/terrorism, the 16.92 for immigration, the 14.69 for health care, or the 27.48 for global warming/climate change. Of course, this is only one measure, but it's still surprising to find that such a long-standing hot-button issue for the GOP is far from the most ideologically polarized in their favor.
Kucinich is far and away the most ideological Democrats, with 30 ideological mentions and no bipartisan ones. Biden shows a rare aversion to the bipartisan label, but that looks to be partly because he doesn't have much to say at all. On the GOP side, Tancredo and Paul are almost as reticent, and just as ideological. The substantial mentions start with Romney and Huckabee. Ordinarily, Huckabee's 95 would be staggering, but it's less than 1/3 of Romney's 298. Could it be that he's got some 'splainin' to do? And would rather pre-empt that whole scene? On the other hand, Guiliani has even more to explain, but he's the least ideological of Republicans, at under 10, less than half of Thompson who tops the GOP's lower tier, which is the overall middle tier, with Edwards slightly behind him. As per usual, four Democratic insiders fill in the bottom. What's not so usual is that Biden isn't among them. What's perhaps surprising (though not to some) is that Clinton is both so quite, and that she's the least ideological of all.
Ideology/Bipartisan Ratios
With "Abortion" | | Candidates | Ideological label | Bipartisan | Ratio | | Dennis4President.com: | 30 | 0 | -- | | Teamtancredo.org: | 4 | 0 | -- | | Ronpaul2008.com: | 4 | 0 | -- | | JoeBiden.com: | 1 | 0 | -- | | MittRomney.com: | 298 | 1 | 298.00 | | MikeHuckabee.com: | 190 | 2 | 95.00 | | Rep Totals | 628 | 12 | 52.33 | | Fred08.com: | 82 | 4 | 20.50 | | JohnEdwards.com: | 169 | 9 | 18.78 | | JohnMcCain.com: | 22 | 2 | 11.00 | | JoinRudy2008.com: | 28 | 3 | 9.33 | | Dem Totals | 488 | 64 | 7.63 | | BarackObama.com: | 270 | 45 | 6.00 | | RichardsonforPresident.com: | 13 | 3 | 4.33 | | ChrisDodd.com: | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | | HillaryClinton.com: | 4 | 6 | 0.67 | | Rep Totals/Dem Totals: | -- | -- | 6.86 |
Gays and Lesbians
The overall ratio of Rep to Dem totals falls even further for gay(s) and/or lesbian(s)--3.19, compared to 6.86 for abortion. This is nearly identical to the level for Social Security, which was 3.37. We start with four GOP candidates who have nothing bipartisan to say, but only two-Huckabee and Romney, are vociferously ideological. Paul and Tancredo are mostly just mum all around. Kucinich is the most ideological Democrat, and at 35.00 is close to the GOP total of 28.67. At less than half that, 17.00, Thompson leads a tier of 4 candidates-Democrats Richardson and Edwards, and fellow Republican John McCain, who are at 10 or more. Obama once again leads the pack of four Democratic insiders, at the just over 8, but Guiliani has snuck into their midst. Cross-dressing dies hard.
Ideology/Bipartisan Ratios
With "Gay(s)" And/Or "Lesbian(s)" | | Candidates | Ideological label | Bipartisan | Ratio | | MikeHuckabee.com: | 72 | 0 | -- | | MittRomney.com: | 41 | 0 | -- | | Teamtancredo.org: | 2 | 0 | -- | | Ronpaul2008.com: | 0 | 0 | -- | | Dennis4President.com: | 35 | 1 | 35.00 | | Rep Totals | 172 | 6 | 28.67 | | Fred08.com: | 34 | 2 | 17.00 | | RichardsonforPresident.com: | 59 | 5 | 11.80 | | JohnEdwards.com: | 573 | 50 | 11.46 | | JohnMcCain.com: | 10 | 1 | 10.00 | | Dem Totals | 1448 | 161 | 8.99 | | BarackObama.com: | 585 | 73 | 8.01 | | HillaryClinton.com: | 189 | 28 | 6.75 | | JoinRudy2008.com: | 13 | 3 | 4.33 | | ChrisDodd.com: | 3 | 1 | 3.00 | | JoeBiden.com: | 4 | 3 | 1.33 | | Rep Totals/Dem Totals: | -- | -- | 3.19 |
Poverty
Of all the issues I looked at, poverty showed the least GOP advantage in terms of ideological identification--with a 1.98 ratio between Reps and Dems--and the reason is fairly clear: On the one hand, Edwards talked about it a lot, and brought the Democratic ratio up. (Even though Obama talked about poverty more, he had a typically low 4.96 ratio.) On the other hand, GOP candidates didn't talk about it much at all, and those who were most ideological were among the most silent. Romney, Tancredo and Paul were all totally ideological, but not very talkative. Huckabee was just a teensy bit bipartisan, but talked a good deal more-though that wasn't saying much, clocking in at 34, twice the ratio of Kucinich, who was also not that talkative. Edwards was slightly behind Kucinich, at just over 15, but more than 100 times more talkative, which is why he had such an impact. Everyone else was under 5, except for the also almost-mute Thompson (6) and Guiliani (5). Barack was very talkative, as already mentioned, almost twice as talkative as Edwards, but was ranked where he usually is, as the most ideological of the Democratic insiders (including Richardson this time), who were joined by a different GOP interlopper this time-McCain.
Ideology/Bipartisan Ratios
With "Poverty" | | Candidates | Ideological label | Bipartisan | Ratio | | MikeHuckabee.com: | 34 | 1 | 34.00 | | MittRomney.com: | 9 | 0 | -- | | Teamtancredo.org: | 3 | 0 | -- | | Ronpaul2008.com: | 1 | 0 | -- | | Dennis4President.com: | 34 | 2 | 17.00 | | JohnEdwards.com: | 3730 | 246 | 15.16 | | Rep Totals | 64 | 5 | 12.80 | | Dem Totals | 10011 | 1550 | 6.46 | | Fred08.com: | 6 | 1 | 6.00 | | JoinRudy2008.com: | 5 | 1 | 5.00 | | BarackObama.com: | 6200 | 1250 | 4.96 | | JohnMcCain.com: | 6 | 2 | 3.00 | | RichardsonforPresident.com: | 19 | 12 | 1.58 | | HillaryClinton.com: | 19 | 18 | 1.06 | | ChrisDodd.com: | 4 | 5 | 0.80 | | JoeBiden.com: | 5 | 17 | 0.29 | | Rep Totals/Dem Totals: | -- | -- | 1.98 |
Conclusion
Looking at all the above comprehensively, it seems obvious that the traditional hot-buttons of gays and abortion are playing a significantly lesser role in defining GOP ideology versus the Democrats. Immigration is doing just fine holding down the conservative identity politics slot, it would appear, and doesn't really need any more help. This might help explain why Guiliani and Romney haven't really had to pay for their unorthodox past positions. With terrorism priming everything else, immigrants can serve as a powerful magnet drawing all the identity politics ire, and leaving the traditional rightwing targets relatively off the table-at least so far. The priming function of terrorism has been seen in many past polls that show those more focused on Iraq strongly favoring the Democrats, while those focused on terrorism have leaned GOP, at least until relatively recently. The figures we've seen in these tables conform to that. Terrorism is significantly more favorable to the GOP in terms of ideological identification-roughly twice that of Iraq.
What's surprising is that health care is slightly more ideologically charged for Republicans, and that global warming/climate change is dramatically more charged. Also worth noting is that Social Security is quite the opposite, a reflection of how the Versailles conventional wisdom dominates over both fiscal and political reality.
| All Issues-Ideological/Bipartisan Ratios By Party | | | All Republican Candidates | All Democratic Candidates | | | Issue | Ideo
label | Bipart | Ratio | Ideo
label | Bipart | Ratio | Rep/Dem
Ratio | | All | 5584 | 65 | 85.91 | 13442 | 2361 | 5.69 | 15.09 | | Social Security | 481 | 28 | 17.18 | 745 | 146 | 5.10 | 3.37 | | Iraq | 1196 | 47 | 25.45 | 11315 | 2373 | 4.77 | 5.34 | | Terrorism/Terror | 1007 | 36 | 27.97 | 1342 | 489 | 2.74 | 10.19 | | Immigration | 3355 | 53 | 63.30 | 7502 | 2005 | 3.74 | 16.92 | | Health Care | 2901 | 43 | 67.47 | 10638 | 2317 | 4.59 | 14.69 | | Global Warming | 30 | 5 | 6.00 | 5388 | 524 | 10.28 | 0.58 | | Climate Change | 5121 | 35 | 146.31 | 512 | 735 | 0.70 | 210.04 | | Global Warming & Climate Change | 5151 | 40 | 128.78 | 5900 | 1259 | 4.69 | 27.48 | | Abortion | 628 | 12 | 52.33 | 488 | 64 | 7.63 | 6.86 | | Gay(s) & Lesbian(s) | 172 | 6 | 28.67 | 1448 | 161 | 8.99 | 3.19 | | Poverty | 64 | 5 | 12.80 | 10011 | 1550 | 6.46 | 1.98 |
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