COVID lockdown helps bounce Democratic governor in Nevada

  • Bias Rating

    52% Very Conservative

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    62% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

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  •   Conservative
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"His Republican opponent, Tim Michels, was also a Trump-endorsed questioner of the 2020 presidential election (open to potentially decertifying the Wisconsin results) and opposed abortion in all cases except to save the life of the mother."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Voters currently cite the economy and inflation as their top issues, far outranking abortion and guns."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"Dixon was also a comparative novice with extremely prohibitionist views on abortion who has said she believes Trump won Michigan in 2020, not Biden."
Negative
-60% Liberal
"Nevada, like Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona, has featured some obvious ticket-splitting, with voters choosing Republicans for lieutenant governor (Stavros Anthony) and state controller (Andy Matthews), and Democrats for attorney general (Aaron Ford), treasurer (Zach Conine), and secretary of state (Francisco Aguilar)."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Nevada, like Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona, has featured some obvious ticket-splitting, with voters choosing Republicans for lieutenant governor (Stavros Anthony) and state controller (Andy Matthews), and Democrats for attorney general (Aaron Ford), treasurer (Zach Conine), and secretary of state (Francisco Aguilar)."
Positive
0% Conservative
"While a national political audience, eyeing the razor-thin margin for partisan control of the United States Senate, eagerly awaits the nail-biting finish between incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Republican challenger Adam Laxalt, people who actually live in Nevada have just made a more forthright decision about how their lives were governed during the height of COVID-19:"
Negative
-4% Liberal
"In New York, on the other hand, Rep. Lee Zeldin, who focused his campaign heavily on crime but also the economy and COVID policies, performed better than any Republican gubernatorial candidate in a generation, helping pull several contested House districts into the GOP camp."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, one of the most notorious lockdowners in the country, not only sailed to an 11-point reelection victory against Tudor Dixon, but she also oversaw the biggest Democratic sweep in the Great Lakes State for decades."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Joe Lombardo, the Republican sheriff of Clark County, has been declared by both Decision Desk HQ and The Nevada Independent to be the wier of the state's gubernatorial race over Democratic incumbent Steve Sisolak, after campaigning relentlessly against Sisolak's draconian pandemic shutdown of casinos and imposition of COVID-related mandates."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Joe Lombardo, the Republican sheriff of Clark County, has been declared by both Decision Desk HQ and The Nevada Independent to be the wier of the state's gubernatorial race over Democratic incumbent Steve Sisolak, after campaigning relentlessly against Sisolak's draconian pandemic shutdown of casinos and imposition of COVID-related mandates."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Sisolak conceded Friday night."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"His Republican opponent, Tim Michels, was also a Trump-endorsed questioner of the 2020 presidential election (open to potentially decertifying the Wisconsin results) and opposed abortion in all cases except to save the life of the mother."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Sisolak's [Vegas Strip shutdown] may be the single biggest reason he's in serious danger of losing his job, Governing magazine foreshadowed in a piece Monday about Republican gubernatorial candidates using COVID policies to punch above their expected weight in the West."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), Brian Kemp (R-Ga.), and Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Sisolak might be the cleanest case of a pro-lockdown incumbent getting scalped."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), Brian Kemp (R-Ga.), and Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Sisolak might be the cleanest case of a pro-lockdown incumbent getting scalped."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), Brian Kemp (R-Ga.), and Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Sisolak might be the cleanest case of a pro-lockdown incumbent getting scalped."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Zeldin still fell five percentage points short of unseating incumbent Kathy Hochul, likely harmed in this deep-blue state by having voted as a lame-duck congressman against certifying the results of the 2020 election."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Zeldin still fell five percentage points short of unseating incumbent Kathy Hochul, likely harmed in this deep-blue state by having voted as a lame-duck congressman against certifying the results of the 2020 election."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"(Gilbert would eventually endorse Lombardo, as would Trump, even after Lombardo said in a general-election debate that Trump's 2020 allegations against Nevada vote counting bothers me.)"
Negative
-54% Liberal
"(Gilbert would eventually endorse Lombardo, as would Trump, even after Lombardo said in a general-election debate that Trump's 2020 allegations against Nevada vote counting bothers me.)"
Negative
-54% Liberal
"Across the border in Wisconsin, even as Republican Sen. Ron Johnson was fending off a Democratic challenger, incumbent Gov. Tony Evers also managed to narrowly hold onto office despite being heavily criticized both for pandemic policies and his stewardship during the deadly Kenosha riots in August 2020."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Across the border in Wisconsin, even as Republican Sen. Ron Johnson was fending off a Democratic challenger, incumbent Gov. Tony Evers also managed to narrowly hold onto office despite being heavily criticized both for pandemic policies and his stewardship during the deadly Kenosha riots in August 2020."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Dixon was also a comparative novice with extremely prohibitionist views on abortion who has said she believes Trump won Michigan in 2020, not Biden."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Dixon was also a comparative novice with extremely prohibitionist views on abortion who has said she believes Trump won Michigan in 2020, not Biden."
Positive
12% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : His Republican opponent, Tim Michels, was also a Trump-endorsed questioner of the 2020 presidential election (open to potentially decertifying the Wisconsin results) and opposed abortion in all cases except to save the life of the mother.
32% : Voters currently cite the economy and inflation as their top issues, far outranking abortion and guns.
20% : Dixon was also a comparative novice with extremely prohibitionist views on abortion who has said she believes Trump won Michigan in 2020, not Biden.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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