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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "Many of these candidates endorsed a wide range of radical policy options: Medicare for All reforms that would eliminate private health insurance; a Green New Deal with an aggressive timeline for reducing reliance on fossil fuels; baing fracking; decriminalizing unauthorized migration over the Mexican border; providing health insurance to undocumented immigrants; allowing prisoners to vote; abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and promising reparations to the descendants of slaves." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "This year, Democrats have chosen to run a campaign focused on three things: abortion rights, gun control, and safeguarding democracy -- issues with strong appeal to socially liberal, college-educated voters." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The Democrats who delivered the party's gains in the House ran on health care, targeting the GOP's attempts to eliminate popular Affordable Care Act reforms such as protecting people with preexisting conditions." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "A number of views correlated with Trump voting, including some aspects of economic populism -- opposition to cutting Social Security and Medicare, suspicion of free trade and trade agreements, taxing the rich -- and traditional populist attitudes such as anti-elitism and mistrust of experts." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Even when Defund the police became a popular slogan in protest circles, Democrats did not want to hear a critical word about the Black Lives Matter protests." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The co-chairs included such lions of the left as Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal, now the chair of the House Progressive Caucus, and the task forces themselves were well-stocked with Sanders (and Elizabeth Warren) supporters." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "The co-chairs included such lions of the left as Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal, now the chair of the House Progressive Caucus, and the task forces themselves were well-stocked with Sanders (and Elizabeth Warren) supporters." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "The co-chairs included such lions of the left as Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal, now the chair of the House Progressive Caucus, and the task forces themselves were well-stocked with Sanders (and Elizabeth Warren) supporters." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "The co-chairs included such lions of the left as Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal, now the chair of the House Progressive Caucus, and the task forces themselves were well-stocked with Sanders (and Elizabeth Warren) supporters." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "One, Biden was ahead by eight points nationally in the middle of September, and by 10 points in the middle of October." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Despite Biden and his team's initial insistence that the strenuous leftism found on Twitter wasn't real life, by the end of the campaign they seemed to be quite happy to act as though it was." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "The projected victory margin for Biden in Michigan and Wisconsin was eight points, and in Pesylvania, it was five points." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "And in Pesylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, where Trump's advantages were very narrow, Democratic support declined by eight, 11, and 13 points, respectively, among the white working class." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Across county-level studies, low levels of educational attainment among white voters were clearly a very robust predictor of shifts toward Trump." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "And these positions and language found their way into the Democratic Party platform, were incorporated into Biden's campaign promises and, importantly, determined how the Biden administration made staffing and policy decisions." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "And these positions and language found their way into the Democratic Party platform, were incorporated into Biden's campaign promises and, importantly, determined how the Biden administration made staffing and policy decisions." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "The election also showed promising signs for the Democrats in the three Rust Belt states that delivered Trump's 2016 victory: Michigan, Pesylvania, and Wisconsin." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "None of these seats was a gain for the Democrats, but The Squad, as they came to be known -- and especially the media-savvy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- captivated the press." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "While Biden was wrapping up the nomination, cultural radicalism continued to gather force on the left of the party and among progressive elites." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Trump's rhetoric and actions over his first two years in office provided plenty of evidence to support that interpretation." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "That gave the Democrats a 50-50 tie in the Senate with newly elected Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaker in their favor." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "In contrast, Democrats' advantage among white college-educated voters improved by 16 points from 2012 to 2020, an edge that delivered Joe Biden the White House" | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Simulations show that if Clinton's white working-class support had matched Obama's in 2012, she would have carried all these states easily." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Simulations show that if Clinton's white working-class support had matched Obama's in 2012, she would have carried all these states easily." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Clearly a much more complex explanation for Trump's victory was -- or should have been -- in order." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The breakthrough states for Biden -- Arizona and Georgia -- were taken by razor-thin margins of three-tenths and two-tenths of a percentage point, respectively." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The Clinton campaign believed that her strategy was working right up to Election Day, despite signs of softening support in Rust Belt states (though the polls, as we now know, were still overestimating Clinton's support)." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The Clinton campaign believed that her strategy was working right up to Election Day, despite signs of softening support in Rust Belt states (though the polls, as we now know, were still overestimating Clinton's support)." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "He formed six unity task forces jointly coordinated by Biden and Sanders campaign figures, covering climate change, criminal-justice reform, the economy, education, health care, and immigration." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "He formed six unity task forces jointly coordinated by Biden and Sanders campaign figures, covering climate change, criminal-justice reform, the economy, education, health care, and immigration." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The campaign's second comforting aspect was that the obvious contrast it wanted to draw -- between the disruptive and chaotic Trump presidency, unable to manage the pandemic and the economy, and the reassuring approach of a moderate, trusted Biden, who would restore America to normality in both realms -- appeared to be defining the contest." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The campaign's second comforting aspect was that the obvious contrast it wanted to draw -- between the disruptive and chaotic Trump presidency, unable to manage the pandemic and the economy, and the reassuring approach of a moderate, trusted Biden, who would restore America to normality in both realms -- appeared to be defining the contest." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "And once that was accomplished and her campaign launched in earnest, she made her second fateful decision, choosing to concentrate on Trump's character and all the ways he was out of step with the rising American electorate." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Her campaign slogan, Stronger together, was an implicit rebuke of Trump on these grounds." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Other candidates' failure to understand this emptied the field for Biden, who cruised to the nomination after Super Tuesday." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "In these quarters, being progressive meant not just opposing Trump and the GOP and supporting Democratic policy priorities, but also a deep commitment to the beliefs and practices of identity politics." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The task forces produced a blizzard of positions and language considerably to the left of the moderate, normie politics upon which Biden had built his successful campaign." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "If any in the Biden campaign had qualms about the campaign's evolution to the left, they might have taken comfort from two facts." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "In opposing Trump, who was himself so radical, it seemed only reasonable to be radical in return." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "This built on the party's attribution of Barack Obama's reelection in 2012 to mobilizing the rising American electorate, which ignored his relatively strong performance among working-class voters in the Midwest." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Biden did carry Michigan, Pesylvania, and Wisconsin, but they were much closer than projected." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "That made for a 306-232 Electoral College victory for Trump (before faithless electors were factored in), despite Clinton's popular-vote lead." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "That made for a 306-232 Electoral College victory for Trump (before faithless electors were factored in), despite Clinton's popular-vote lead." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "As analysts sifted through the wreckage of Democratic performance, trying to understand where all the Trump votes had come from, some themes began to emerge." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "A number of views correlated with Trump voting, including some aspects of economic populism -- opposition to cutting Social Security and Medicare, suspicion of free trade and trade agreements, taxing the rich -- and traditional populist attitudes such as anti-elitism and mistrust of experts." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "In the left's view, opposing Trump had to be joined to a struggle against all these aspects of oppression, and to social transformation." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Biden carried the national popular vote by a little over four points, better than Clinton in 2016 but far off the gaudy margin that the campaign and political pundits had anticipated." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Biden carried the national popular vote by a little over four points, better than Clinton in 2016 but far off the gaudy margin that the campaign and political pundits had anticipated." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Trump's victory was attributable, above all, to the shift of white working-class voters, including many who had voted for Obama, into the Republican column." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Trump's victory was attributable, above all, to the shift of white working-class voters, including many who had voted for Obama, into the Republican column." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "A rigorous accounting of vote shifts toward Trump, however, shows that they were concentrated among white voters -- particularly those without college degrees -- with moderate views on race and immigration, and not among white voters with high levels of racial resentment." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "And they managed to gain the Senate only by improbably wiing two runoff elections in Georgia, as Trump prospectively declared the elections illegal and invalid and subverted his own party's electoral chances by suppressing turnout among his supporters." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Trump's supporters integrated hostility toward immigration, trade, and liberal elites with a sense of unfairness rooted in a conservative, race-neutral view of avenues to upward mobility." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "This made Biden's decision to absorb the left in his campaign look like a wier, or at least harmless." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Otherwise, the oppression would remain even if Trump himself was removed." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Trump's ads, by contrast, talked a great deal about policy, albeit not in the careful and detailed way Democrats tend to prefer, but rather discussing in broad strokes issues including trade, immigration, and the betrayal of elites." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The Democrats had assumed they could capitalize on Trump's unpopularity to produce a wave election, consolidating power at all levels of government." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "These voters were not particularly interested in promoting a radical critique of American society and certainly didn't see their organizing for Democratic candidates as having any higher basis of unity than wanting to beat Trump and the candidates who supported him." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "In the midst of this, Trump continued roiling the waters with bizarre theories about the coronavirus and how to treat it, leading to a stark politicization of the public-health emergency." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "In FiveThirtyEight's final forecast, Biden was projected to carry not only the three Rust Belt states that had handed the 2016 election to Trump (Michigan, Pesylvania, and Wisconsin) but also Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "In FiveThirtyEight's final forecast, Biden was projected to carry not only the three Rust Belt states that had handed the 2016 election to Trump (Michigan, Pesylvania, and Wisconsin) but also Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Indeed, if Clinton had simply managed to reduce her losses among these voters by a quarter, she would have been elected president." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "These studies also indicated that counties that swung in Trump's direction tended to be dependent on low-skill jobs, to perform relatively poorly on a range of economic measures, and to have local economies particularly vulnerable to automation and offshoring." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Finally, there was strong evidence that Trump-swinging counties tended to be literally sick, in the sense that their inhabitants had relatively poor physical health and high mortality due to alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "But that was not true outside of these milieus, where many moderate-to-liberal voters simply wanted to foil the Republicans and get rid of Trump, whom they found profoundly distasteful." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "The result, in 2018, was a very successful election for Democrats, who took full advantage of Trump's unpopularity." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Studies of her campaign-ad spending reveal that the overwhelming majority of these ads had nothing to say about policy or even policy orientation, instead attacking Trump's character and his many divisive and offensive statements." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Instead, the party chose to see in Clinton's defeat a validation of her message, that racism and xenophobia were the country's defining forces." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "In this situation, Joe Biden was able to take advantage of both his primary opponents' radical ideas and the chaos of Trump's governance by striking a moderate note, promising to pursue progressive but sensible policies, restore the soul of America, provide the help Americans needed to get through the crisis, and, of course and above all, beat Donald Trump." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "In this situation, Joe Biden was able to take advantage of both his primary opponents' radical ideas and the chaos of Trump's governance by striking a moderate note, promising to pursue progressive but sensible policies, restore the soul of America, provide the help Americans needed to get through the crisis, and, of course and above all, beat Donald Trump." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "In this situation, Joe Biden was able to take advantage of both his primary opponents' radical ideas and the chaos of Trump's governance by striking a moderate note, promising to pursue progressive but sensible policies, restore the soul of America, provide the help Americans needed to get through the crisis, and, of course and above all, beat Donald Trump." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "And Biden got blown out by eight points in both Iowa and Ohio, which were supposed to be so close." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "In Iowa and Ohio, where Clinton got blown out, white working-class voters moved, respectively, 22 and 15 margin points toward the GOP." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "The picture was more complicated when it came to the characteristics of individuals who voted for Trump, especially those who had previously voted for Obama." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "The picture was more complicated when it came to the characteristics of individuals who voted for Trump, especially those who had previously voted for Obama." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "But Biden did the reverse." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "During the primaries, facing a stiffer-than-expected challenge from Bernie Sanders, Clinton elected to counter his class-oriented populist economics by flanking him to the left on identity-politics issues." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "During the primaries, facing a stiffer-than-expected challenge from Bernie Sanders, Clinton elected to counter his class-oriented populist economics by flanking him to the left on identity-politics issues." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "The roots of the Democrats' struggles go back at least as far as Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016, and, as important, to the way in which many Democrats chose to interpret her defeat." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "In fact, Trump netted fewer votes from white voters with high levels of racial resentment than Mitt Romney did in 2012." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "In fact, Trump netted fewer votes from white voters with high levels of racial resentment than Mitt Romney did in 2012." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Criticism of Trump was generally implicit in those candidates' stances rather than explicit." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "For Clinton, turning to identity politics was a way of making Sanders seem out of touch." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "For Clinton, turning to identity politics was a way of making Sanders seem out of touch." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Democratic victories in these states -- and in Miesota, which Trump lost by less than two points -- were overwhelmingly driven by shifts among white voters away from Trump." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "Democratic victories in these states -- and in Miesota, which Trump lost by less than two points -- were overwhelmingly driven by shifts among white voters away from Trump." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "While candidates for the Democratic nomination were floating such ideas, the latter half of Trump's term unfolded on ever more polarizing terms, leading to Trump's impeachment by the newly Democratic House on December 18, 2019." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "While candidates for the Democratic nomination were floating such ideas, the latter half of Trump's term unfolded on ever more polarizing terms, leading to Trump's impeachment by the newly Democratic House on December 18, 2019." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "While carrying the popular vote by two percentage points, Clinton lost three states -- Florida, Iowa, and Ohio -- that Obama had carried twice, and also narrowly lost Michigan, Pesylvania, and Wisconsin, three Rust Belt states in the Blue Wall the Democrats had carried in every presidential election since 1992." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "While carrying the popular vote by two percentage points, Clinton lost three states -- Florida, Iowa, and Ohio -- that Obama had carried twice, and also narrowly lost Michigan, Pesylvania, and Wisconsin, three Rust Belt states in the Blue Wall the Democrats had carried in every presidential election since 1992." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "Hillary Clinton's campaign made two fateful decisions that decisively undercut her ability to beat Donald Trump." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Hillary Clinton's campaign made two fateful decisions that decisively undercut her ability to beat Donald Trump." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "After Sanders unexpectedly came close to tying Clinton in the Iowa caucus, she went on the offensive, seeking to characterize Sanders's class-oriented pitch as racist and sexist." | Negative | -76% Liberal |
| "After Sanders unexpectedly came close to tying Clinton in the Iowa caucus, she went on the offensive, seeking to characterize Sanders's class-oriented pitch as racist and sexist." | Negative | -76% Liberal |
| "After Sanders unexpectedly came close to tying Clinton in the Iowa caucus, she went on the offensive, seeking to characterize Sanders's class-oriented pitch as racist and sexist." | Negative | -76% Liberal |
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46% : Many of these candidates endorsed a wide range of radical policy options: "Medicare for All" reforms that would eliminate private health insurance; a Green New Deal with an aggressive timeline for reducing reliance on fossil fuels; banning fracking; decriminalizing unauthorized migration over the Mexican border; providing health insurance to undocumented immigrants; allowing prisoners to vote; abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and promising reparations to the descendants of slaves.45% : This year, Democrats have chosen to run a campaign focused on three things: abortion rights, gun control, and safeguarding democracy -- issues with strong appeal to socially liberal, college-educated voters.
45% : The Democrats who delivered the party's gains in the House ran on health care, targeting the GOP's attempts to eliminate popular Affordable Care Act reforms such as protecting people with preexisting conditions.
44% : A number of views correlated with Trump voting, including some aspects of economic populism -- opposition to cutting Social Security and Medicare, suspicion of free trade and trade agreements, taxing the rich -- and traditional populist attitudes such as anti-elitism and mistrust of experts.
40% : Even when "Defund the police" became a popular slogan in protest circles, Democrats did not want to hear a critical word about the Black Lives Matter protests.
*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.