Five Takeaways From Tuesday's Elections

Jun 29, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    36% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    98% 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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  •   Conservative
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"Where the Candidates Stand: Ahead of the primaries for governor on June 28, our political reporters questioned the seven candidates on crime, taxes, abortion and more."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"Mr. Pritzker did such a good job stamping out Mr. Irvin that the mayor placed a distant third, more than 40 percentage points behind Mr. Bailey."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Mr. Pritzker did such a good job stamping out Mr. Irvin that the mayor placed a distant third, more than 40 percentage points behind Mr. Bailey."
Positive
6% Conservative
"He spent a historic amount of money to choose his own Republican opponent, and I wish Darren Bailey well."
Positive
36% Conservative
"But Mr. Delgado's victory was less assured."
Positive
14% Conservative
"Tonight, J.B. Pritzker won the Republican primary for governor here in Illinois, Mr. Irvin said in a concession speech."
Positive
10% Conservative
"In Illinois, Mr. Bailey and Representative Mary Miller, who both refused to accept the 2020 results, strolled to victory in their primaries."
Positive
8% Conservative
"In Illinois, Mr. Bailey and Representative Mary Miller, who both refused to accept the 2020 results, strolled to victory in their primaries."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Throughout Central and Southern Illinois, signs read Trump-Bailey-Miller, highlighting the alliance between the former president, Mr. Bailey and Ms. Miller."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Throughout Central and Southern Illinois, signs read Trump-Bailey-Miller, highlighting the alliance between the former president, Mr. Bailey and Ms. Miller."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Mr. Bailey, the newly minted Republican nominee for governor of Illinois, didn't just trounce a field of better-funded candidates (with a lot of help from Mr. Pritzker)."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Mr. Bailey, the newly minted Republican nominee for governor of Illinois, didn't just trounce a field of better-funded candidates (with a lot of help from Mr. Pritzker)."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"A few of Mr. Bailey's picks in state legislative races defeated rivals backed by campaign cash from Keeth Griffin, the Chicago billionaire and chief benefactor of the Illinois Republican Party."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Democrats couldn't help lift Mr. Hanks to victory if he couldn't help himself."
Positive
4% Conservative
"One of Mr. Bailey's chosen candidates for the Illinois House, Bill Hauter, a pediatric anesthesiologist at a hospital in Peoria, campaigned on a platform opposing public health restrictions to stem the coronavirus pandemic."
Positive
2% Conservative
"I'm up against a lot of money, Dr. Hauter said in an interview at a Bailey campaign stop last week in Lincoln, Ill."
Positive
2% Conservative
"In the Senate race, Mr. O'Dea accepted the results of the election, while Mr. Hanks predicated his campaign on denying them."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Down the ballot, Mr. Bailey's personal lawyer and traveling campaign companion, Thomas DeVore, was leading the Republican primary for attorney general over Steve Kim, a former staff member for Gov. Jim Edgar."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Representative Day K. Davis of Illinois, a Democrat who narrowly held off a spirited campaign from a progressive challenger."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Mr. Hanks's threadbare campaign raised just $124,000 -- a pittance that in many places can barely pay for a competitive state legislative race."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"It's Darren Bailey's party in Illinois."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Her late-in-the-game lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, also coasted."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Mr. Palazzo fell to Mike Ezell, a sheriff."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"But the combination of a low-turnout contest, an under-the-radar effort from local Democrats and anger over the Supreme Court's decision last week ending the constitutional right to an abortion led the Democrat in the race, State Senator Patty Pansing Brooks, to come within a few points of Mr. Flood in a district Mr. Trump carried by double digits in 2020."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Mr. Bailey had been campaigning for more than a year and had his own billionaire patron, the conservative megadonor Richard Uihlein."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"And in other states, several members of Congress who were thought to be endangered prevailed:Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi, a Republican who was dogged by his vote for a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol;"
Negative
-14% Liberal
"He faced a robust challenge from Ana Maru00eda Archila, a former immigrant rights activist who made her name confronting Senator Jeff Flake in a Senate elevator during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"In a video aouncing his campaign last year, Mr. Hanks shot a gun at what appeared to be a photocopier labeled as a Dominion voting machine."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Few outside the Cornhusker State paid much attention to the special election to fill the House seat vacated by former Representative Jeff Fortenberry, who resigned after he was convicted of lying to federal investigators."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"In New York, Ms. Hochul was never believed to be in danger against her two challengers, one more liberal and one more conservative than she is."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Gov. Kathy Hochul is trying to fend off energetic challenges from two fellow Democrats, while the four-way G.O.P. contest has been playing in part like a referendum on Donald J. Trump."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"But the same tactics didn't work in Colorado, where a shadowy Democratic group spent nearly $4 million attacking Joe O'Dea, a construction executive who supports some abortion rights, while trying to aid Ron Hanks, a far-right state representative who didn't spend anything on television advertising."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"New York Republicans gave nearly two-thirds of their primary vote for governor to Representative Lee Zeldin and Andrew Giuliani, who have also cast doubt on the results."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Mr. O'Dea now figures to give Colorado Democrats what they feared: a competitive general-election contest against Senator Michael Beet, who has privately told people his race will be difficult."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Not since Georgia's elections over a month ago have Republican primary voters summarily rejected a slate of 2020 election deniers -- but those contests were colored by former President Donald J. Trump's failed quest for vengeance against Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul fended off two challengers."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Representative Steven Palazzo, a Mississippi Republican, lost a runoff after the Office of Congressional Ethics concluded he had misused campaign money, including directing $80,000 toward a waterfront home he was trying to sell."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"In Illinois, Gov. J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire Democrat, spent $35 million to stop Mayor Richard C. Irvin of Aurora, a moderate Republican, while promoting Darren Bailey, a far-right state senator who once vowed to kick Chicago out of the state."
Positive
0% Conservative
"In Illinois, Gov. J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire Democrat, spent $35 million to stop Mayor Richard C. Irvin of Aurora, a moderate Republican, while promoting Darren Bailey, a far-right state senator who once vowed to kick Chicago out of the state."
Positive
0% Conservative
"The congresswoman, who apologized last year after making an approving reference to Hitler, won her primary against Representative Rodney Davis after the two were drawn into a district together."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Mr. Delgado, who joined Ms. Hochul's administration in May after his predecessor resigned in scandal, still took about 60 percent of the vote in a three-way race."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Mr. Delgado, who joined Ms. Hochul's administration in May after his predecessor resigned in scandal, still took about 60 percent of the vote in a three-way race."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Representative Blake Moore of Utah, a Republican who allied himself with Senator Mitt Romney and Representative Liz Cheney, who are now apostates for much of their party;"
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Representative Blake Moore of Utah, a Republican who allied himself with Senator Mitt Romney and Representative Liz Cheney, who are now apostates for much of their party;"
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Representative Blake Moore of Utah, a Republican who allied himself with Senator Mitt Romney and Representative Liz Cheney, who are now apostates for much of their party;"
Negative
-34% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

32% : Where the Candidates Stand: Ahead of the primaries for governor on June 28, our political reporters questioned the seven candidates on crime, taxes, abortion and more.

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