With state Sen. Kay Hagan touting her bipartisanship, Dome decided to take a closer look.

One measure is the number of Republicans who signed onto legislation she sponsored.

In the 2007-08 session, the Greensboro Democrat was the primary sponsor of 33 bills. Of them, 15 had no cosponsors, 10 had only Democratic cosponsors and eight had Republicans.

But the Republican-cosponsored measures tended to have a number of supporters. Overall, her 83 cosponsors included 55 Democrats and 28 Republicans, or about a two-to-one ratio.

The most frequent GOP cosponsor was Sen. Stan Bingham of neighboring Davidson County, who signed on to Hagan bills on creating license plates for soccer and juvenile diabetes, funding a Triad crime lab and allowing the student member of the UNC Board of Governors to vote.

The UNC bill was the most bipartisan, with 14 Democratic and 15 Republican cosponsors, including Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger and former gubernatorial candidate Fred Smith.

Hagan also had Republican cosponsors on bills on computer equipment recycling, real estate settlement protection, rental car fee reform, and funds for the Children's Discovery Center.