WaPo
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) (center) and other Democrats including Rep. George Miller
D-CA (at right with hands to his mouth) react as President Obama delivers his State of the
Union address to a Joint Session of Congress on Capitol Hill on Jan. 27, 2010
... "One can reasonably assume that when the Democrats speak of the president publicly it’s in a favorable way and when Republicans do it’s, well, not quite as glowing. As positive public opinion of Obama began to dip after his first year, the spread between how often Republicans and the Democrats invoked Obama grew wider. Put simply, the Democrats weren’t mentioning Obama by name nearly as much as Republicans.
"The gap is particularly notable in the last year as seen in the chart above by the Sunlight Foundation, which measures how often any given word is spoken against all words in floor speeches and debates collected by the Congressional Record. Last fall, at the height of the government shutdown and the Obamacare rollout, Republicans were predictably discussing (bashing) Obama more." ...