Hot Air Article RatingHaley: What Caused The Civil War? Er ...
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- Policy Leaning
2% Center
- Politician Portrayal
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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.
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| "While in New Hampshire trying to push her #2 position into a real challenge to Donald Trump, Haley got asked a very simple question: What was the cause of the United States Civil War?" | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "The State of New Jersey, at an early day, passed a law in conformity with her constitutional obligation; but the current of anti-slavery feeling has led her more recently to enact laws which render inoperative the remedies provided by her own law and by the laws of Congress." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Haley didn't have much chance of wiing either state before this, and while this may not damage her, it certainly doesn't help -- especially for a candidate who's been bragging about her five-inch combat heels for the last few months to sell herself as the toughest candidate on the ballot." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Haley may be worried that South Carolina primary voters don't want to hear a straightforward and honest answer, or perhaps more simply, that she doesn't want to give those voters an excuse to flip back to Trump on this pretext." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "While in New Hampshire trying to push her #2 position into a real challenge to Donald Trump, Haley got asked a very simple question: What was the cause of the United States Civil War?" | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "While in New Hampshire trying to push her #2 position into a real challenge to Donald Trump, Haley got asked a very simple question: What was the cause of the United States Civil War?" | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are, Haley replied." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Not exactly a Profiles in Courage moment for Haley, or even a Profiles in Reality moment." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "And if that was bad, this was worse:When the questioner said it was astonishing to hear her respond without mentioning the word slavery, Haley replied: What do you want me to say about slavery?" | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Don't come with an easy question, Nikki Haley jokingly said, but there are few questions easier than this." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "What do you think the cause of the Civil War was or argument?The questioner, who could not be easily heard off camera, was apparently unpersuaded by Haley's response." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "That is why the nation fell into a Civil War, not the secondary or tertiary issues Haley trots out in this answer." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "That's especially true for a former governor of South Carolina, and one who -- to credit Haley -- handled a political crisis over the Confederate flag with far more aplomb than we see here." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "It's a one-word answer, which Haley botched even after the questioner handed it to her:I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run, she responded." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Haley didn't have much chance of wiing either state before this, and while this may not damage her, it certainly doesn't help -- especially for a candidate who's been bragging about her five-inch combat heels for the last few months to sell herself as the toughest candidate on the ballot." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The real question here is: why can't Haley just say, Slavery?" | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "In the above clip, CNN's commentators shrug off any damage from this exchange to Haley." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Haley may be worried that South Carolina primary voters don't want to hear a straightforward and honest answer, or perhaps more simply, that she doesn't want to give those voters an excuse to flip back to Trump on this pretext." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Haley may be worried that South Carolina primary voters don't want to hear a straightforward and honest answer, or perhaps more simply, that she doesn't want to give those voters an excuse to flip back to Trump on this pretext." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
59% : While in New Hampshire trying to push her #2 position into a real challenge to Donald Trump, Haley got asked a very simple question: "What was the cause of the United States Civil War?"57% : But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution.
56% : Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation.
49% : The State of New Jersey, at an early day, passed a law in conformity with her constitutional obligation; but the current of anti-slavery feeling has led her more recently to enact laws which render inoperative the remedies provided by her own law and by the laws of Congress.
37% : Haley didn't have much chance of winning either state before this, and while this may not damage her, it certainly doesn't help -- especially for a candidate who's been bragging about her five-inch combat heels for the last few months to sell herself as the toughest candidate on the ballot.
24% : Haley may be worried that South Carolina primary voters don't want to hear a straightforward and honest answer, or perhaps more simply, that she doesn't want to give those voters an excuse to flip back to Trump on this pretext.
*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.