Democrats' Defund-the-Police Debacle | RealClearPolitics

Aug 10, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    -72% Very Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    96% Negative

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

Overall Sentiment

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"That means the left's push to slash police funding has become a major electoral liability for mainstream Democrats, both nationally and locally."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Next November, voters will bury them even deeper if their main concerns are rising crime and lawlessness on the southern border."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Voters realize that strident demands to cut police budgets, eliminate cash bail, and reduce serious crime to misdemeanors are elements of a larger progressive wish list that would limit all facets of law enforcement and criminal punishment."
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-40% Liberal
"Even though party leaders, including Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer, have repeatedly tried to distance themselves from progressive demands to cut police budgets, they haven't succeeded in the public eye, at least not yet."
Negative
-72% Liberal
"It is political malpractice for Cori Bush to embrace this kind of narcissism, hypocrisy, and cringing victimization on national TV."
Positive
0% Conservative
"That's the Democrats' problem with the Squad, led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Cori Bush spit directly into that wind last week during her CBS interview."
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-10% Liberal
"Those policies, supported by leaders like Vice President Kamala Harris, put perps back on the streets only hours after they've been charged with violent crimes."
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-18% Liberal
"Now that moderate members want to change course, those on the left, like Cori Bush, want to keep digging and proudly shouting their message to the world."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"This problem arose again last week when squad member Cori Bush told a national TV audience how eager she is to defund the police."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"But no top Democrat -- not Biden, not Schumer, not Pelosi -- has been brave enough to flatly condemn the progressives who support it and take them on."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"But no top Democrat -- not Biden, not Schumer, not Pelosi -- has been brave enough to flatly condemn the progressives who support it and take them on."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Even though party leaders, including Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer, have repeatedly tried to distance themselves from progressive demands to cut police budgets, they haven't succeeded in the public eye, at least not yet."
Negative
-60% Liberal
"Even though party leaders, including Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer, have repeatedly tried to distance themselves from progressive demands to cut police budgets, they haven't succeeded in the public eye, at least not yet."
Negative
-60% Liberal
"Even though party leaders, including Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer, have repeatedly tried to distance themselves from progressive demands to cut police budgets, they haven't succeeded in the public eye, at least not yet."
Negative
-60% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : That means the left's push to slash police funding has become a major electoral liability for mainstream Democrats, both nationally and locally.
37% : Next November, voters will bury them even deeper if their main concerns are rising crime and lawlessness on the southern border.
30% : Voters realize that strident demands to cut police budgets, eliminate cash bail, and reduce serious crime to misdemeanors are elements of a larger progressive wish list that would limit all facets of law enforcement and criminal punishment.
14% : Even though party leaders, including Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer, have repeatedly tried to distance themselves from progressive demands to cut police budgets, they haven't succeeded in the public eye, at least not yet.

*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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