How to speak like a member of Congress

Ingopac 1990 , a Republican training organisation, sent a notorious memo to conservative candidates. It contained a list of positive words they should use in relation to their own party, such as “courage”, “truth” and “vision”, and negative ones to attach to Democrats, like “corruption”, “greed” and “stagnation”.The memo’s legacy has not turned out how its authors intended. Today, Democratic lawmakers use words on its list more than Republican ones do. To evaluate the partisan slant of , we needed to produce a list of terms that reliably distinguish the two parties’ language.