Automated measurement. Composite prose is generated from claims selected and counted by code.

“across the aisle”

Adoption curve: how many independent members of each party used this exact phrase, by day. Where at least three distinct offices can be grounded, peak-day source receipts appear below.

Democrats Republicans

First recorded in the public window: 2025-01-03 (first active day in the public window; this derived record does not identify that day’s first carrier)
Peak: 16 members in one day · 2025-10-01
Distinctiveness: The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points: 330 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2025-10-01, this exact phrase is grounded in 17 distinct source units (an office or joint-release family). The Peak figure above is the largest count for either party; this evidence total counts grounded units across both parties on that same day. Showing 4 of 17 source receipts. (D: 16; R: 1)

Adam Smith (D-WA) · 2025-10-01 · source · archived

April McClain Delaney (D-MD) · 2025-10-01 · source · archived

Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) · 2025-10-01 · source · archived

Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) · 2025-10-01 · source · archived

Public Stage-1 phrase statistics begin 2025-01-03. Coverage for the same window is shown on the Methodology page. (The full-history “Alexandria” backfill to 2001 is staged for a later phase.)

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