The negative one was that they would elevate the moral tone and end bitter partisanship in Washington.
On current events have I encountered the intense partisanship the often rabid bias that colors the editorial pages of the majority of newspapers in this country.
Their hypothesis is that crowd size and partisanship impose pressures on referees.
The second is an upsurge in partisanship in which the Republicans, though with slim majorities in both houses, are playing the politics of win-at-any-cost.
The hope is that Congress will for once put principle before partisanship and support the president.
He was the only House Republican to vote for the health-care bill last year, though he switched to a no over abortion funding, and is frustrated by petty partisanship on Capitol Hill.
There may be other, similar, questions your group would want to take on. Feel free to generate a better set of questions concerning the partisanship of Congress during the 1990s and answer them.
But the Games transcended that partisanship.
Nor did it even seem to matter greatly. There was a link of understanding between them, more important than affection or partisanship.
The vicissitude tracks that journalism theory follows can be found out through the keywords-dialectic concerning medium instrument, partisanship, consensus supervision, authenticity, information, etc.
