“lives on the line”
As published“lives on the line”
The measured identity is the normalized key above. This is one spelling of it as it appeared in the sources, chosen by frequency. Normalized key: lives on the line
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 (solid line) Republicans (dashed line)
- First recorded in the public window
- 2025-01-06 (first active day in the public window; this derived record does not identify that day’s first carrier)
- Peak
- 8 members in one day · 2026-05-14
- Distinctiveness
- The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
- Data points
- 295 active days
Peak-day evidence
On 2026-05-14, this exact phrase is grounded in 13 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 6 of 13 source receipts. (D: 5; R: 8)
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.)