Wonkette Article RatingEverybody Hates Lindsey Graham's Stupid Abortion Ban, Especially His Republican Colleagues
Sep 14, 2022 View Original Article
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| "(There were anti-abortion ladies behind him.)" | Positive | 28% Conservative |
| "Michigan Supreme Court Says Suck It, Fascists, Everybody Gets To Vote On AbortionRepublican candidates are panicking, trying to pretend they're not really anti-abortion extremists (they are)." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "They're voting against Republicans every chance they get, and voting for abortion." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "NBC News reports that Republicans are seeing Graham's bill as a distraction that divides the GOP and reminds voters that most of them see the party as too extreme on abortion." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "To Make Free Campaign Ad About Abortion, For DemocratsNot only that, but Politico reports that the Biden White House was downright amazed Lindsey Graham did that specifically yesterday, considering how the White House had scheduled its Inflation Reduction party on a day when the inflation report was shitty and markets were reeling." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Beltway Idiots Might Have Gotten Midterms And Voter Rage About Abortion All Wrong?" | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Playbook shares a quote from a Democrat they talked to: Graham's stunt is a godsend and helps us remind voters Republicans want to ban abortion everywhere." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Are we really to believe Johnson has such a big problem with Graham turning his previous 20-week ban into a 15-week ban or suddenly has feelings about abortion being legislated by the states?" | Negative | -84% Liberal |
| "Or is Johnson in a hard re-election race and understands that America is really fucking pissed at Republicans about abortion right now, so he's trying to distance himself from Lindsey Graham busting in like the Kool-Aid man on a bender with all his new anti-abortion girlfriends?" | Negative | -84% Liberal |
| "(Graham seemed very excited to have the ladies behind me behind him." | Positive | 34% Conservative |
| "During Graham's press conference yesterday, he said he had spoken to [his] colleagues about his bill, and that the ladies behind me are going to speak to my colleagues!" | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Ron Johnson from Wisconsin told ABC News that It's got to be decided in the states, adding that he thought that was appropriate." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "The only sitting Republican senator we've seen express support is South Dakota's John Thune." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "I think most of the members of my conference prefer that this be dealt with at the state level, replied McCoell." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Is this Lindsey Graham's first day in politics?" | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "No, I like Mitch, but no, I just sorta like spoke to the ladies behind me and they said would you go from 20 to 15 weeks." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "His brain is broken, so of course he is:Raphael Warnock wants to protect the killing of babies right up to the moment of birth." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Lindsey Graham" | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Dems might need to send gift baskets and champagne to Graham and other Republicans for their selfless act of service today, said a Democratic official." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "John Cornyn of Texas: That wasn't a conference decision." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "RIGHT NOW, LINDSEY GRAHAM?" | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Like Wonkette said, Lindsey literally made them a free campaign ad." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "GOP Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia said, I'm not sure what he's thinking here." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "NBC News reports that Republicans are seeing Graham's bill as a distraction that divides the GOP and reminds voters that most of them see the party as too extreme on abortion." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Would McCoell put Graham's bill on the floor if Republicans won the Senate, like Lindsey Graham promised?" | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Would McCoell put Graham's bill on the floor if Republicans won the Senate, like Lindsey Graham promised?" | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Would McCoell put Graham's bill on the floor if Republicans won the Senate, like Lindsey Graham promised?" | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Politico says its sources are highly perplexed at Graham's decision to introduce a new abortion ban -- more conservative than his previous proposals -- at a precarious moment for the party." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Their reporting features quotes from GOP strategists and advisers all over the country saying things like bad idea and stupid, just stupid and Graham's actions are practically inexplicable politically." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "To Make Free Campaign Ad About Abortion, For DemocratsNot only that, but Politico reports that the Biden White House was downright amazed Lindsey Graham did that specifically yesterday, considering how the White House had scheduled its Inflation Reduction party on a day when the inflation report was shitty and markets were reeling." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "And Lindsey Graham just took a big dump in the middle of the room and made it worse for them." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Americans are seething over the illegitimate partisan hack Supreme Court that Donald Trump and Republicans stole, and what that illegitimate partisan hack Supreme Court did this summer when they overturned Roe v. Wade." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "When Lindsey Graham aounced that he was going to introduce a 15-week abortion ban, seemingly to try to turn the tables on Democrats to make the Democrats look like monsters, we laughed and laughed and wondered if a Democrat had somehow blackmailed Lindsey into doing this." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "When Lindsey Graham aounced that he was going to introduce a 15-week abortion ban, seemingly to try to turn the tables on Democrats to make the Democrats look like monsters, we laughed and laughed and wondered if a Democrat had somehow blackmailed Lindsey into doing this." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Playbook shares a quote from a Democrat they talked to: Graham's stunt is a godsend and helps us remind voters Republicans want to ban abortion everywhere." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Have fun living underneath the bus Mitch McCoell just threw you under, Lindsey Graham!" | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "Have fun living underneath the bus Mitch McCoell just threw you under, Lindsey Graham!" | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "Was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCoell informed Lindsey Graham would suddenly be doing a 15-week ban, Graham was asked?" | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "Was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCoell informed Lindsey Graham would suddenly be doing a 15-week ban, Graham was asked?" | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "Was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCoell informed Lindsey Graham would suddenly be doing a 15-week ban, Graham was asked?" | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "But as Ruth Coiff notes in the Wisconsin Examiner, in real life Johnson is totally on board with Graham's stupid bill, since he's been a cosponsor of it in six previous years." | Negative | -78% Liberal |
| "But as Ruth Coiff notes in the Wisconsin Examiner, in real life Johnson is totally on board with Graham's stupid bill, since he's been a cosponsor of it in six previous years." | Negative | -78% Liberal |
| "Are we really to believe Johnson has such a big problem with Graham turning his previous 20-week ban into a 15-week ban or suddenly has feelings about abortion being legislated by the states?" | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "Are we really to believe Johnson has such a big problem with Graham turning his previous 20-week ban into a 15-week ban or suddenly has feelings about abortion being legislated by the states?" | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "Or is Johnson in a hard re-election race and understands that America is really fucking pissed at Republicans about abortion right now, so he's trying to distance himself from Lindsey Graham busting in like the Kool-Aid man on a bender with all his new anti-abortion girlfriends?" | Negative | -66% Liberal |
| "Or is Johnson in a hard re-election race and understands that America is really fucking pissed at Republicans about abortion right now, so he's trying to distance himself from Lindsey Graham busting in like the Kool-Aid man on a bender with all his new anti-abortion girlfriends?" | Negative | -66% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
64% : (There were anti-abortion ladies behind him.)46% : Michigan Supreme Court Says Suck It, Fascists, Everybody Gets To Vote On AbortionRepublican candidates are panicking, trying to pretend they're not really anti-abortion extremists (they are).
43% : They're voting against Republicans every chance they get, and voting for abortion.
39% : NBC News reports that Republicans are seeing Graham's bill as "a distraction that divides the GOP and reminds voters that most of them see the party as too extreme on abortion."
32% : To Make Free Campaign Ad About Abortion, For DemocratsNot only that, but Politico reports that the Biden White House was downright amazed Lindsey Graham did that specifically yesterday, considering how the White House had scheduled its Inflation Reduction party on a day when the inflation report was shitty and markets were reeling.
31% : Beltway Idiots Might Have Gotten Midterms And Voter Rage About Abortion All Wrong?
24% : Playbook shares a quote from a Democrat they talked to: "Graham's stunt is a godsend and helps us remind voters Republicans want to ban abortion everywhere."
8% : Are we really to believe Johnson has such a big problem with Graham turning his previous 20-week ban into a 15-week ban or suddenly has feelings about abortion being legislated by the states?
8% : Or is Johnson in a hard re-election race and understands that America is really fucking pissed at Republicans about abortion right now, so he's trying to distance himself from Lindsey Graham busting in like the Kool-Aid man on a bender with all his new anti-abortion girlfriends?
*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.