"Hosting cricket, we assumed, was a national rather than a partisan matter," the paper said.

Second, it was the first test of how the evenly divided Senate would operate on a highly partisan matter.

And on an issue as inherently partisan as redistricting, a judge's politics matters.

The structure of the staff would be meaningless if the members of the committee were determined to make this investigation a partisan matter.

The vote was the House Democratic leadership's first real test on a highly partisan matter.

"This is not a partisan matter," commented the civic-minded Bush.

This type of incident is not a partisan matter.

Mr. Wright's supporters had long presented the investigation as largely a partisan matter.

And I ask them again: Please, as an American, not a partisan matter, pass these laws now.

Active duty military officers have no business talking about partisan political matters.