Washington Examiner Article RatingHere's when Democratic meddling in GOP primaries worked best and when it backfired
Jul 17, 2022 View Original Article
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| "But Riordan's political fortunes began to plummet when Davis's campaign pumped as much as $10 million into a blitz of television commercials that portrayed the former mayor as changing his positions on abortion, the death penalty, and other issues." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Six years later, with Missouri moving rightward, McCaskill faced a tough reelection challenge." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Like other San Francisco mayors, Christopher had statewide ambitions and sought California's governorship in 1966." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Missouri Senate, 2012: Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill's reelection bid won a place in the aals of strategic campaigning by touting Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri in his competitive Republican primary." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Akin won the Republican nomination with a plurality in a close three-way race, with the McCaskill ads widely credited as having boosted his candidacy." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Reagan went on to win the Republican nomination by a nearly 2-to-1 margin." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Reagan beat Brown 58" | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "That gave an opening to his chief Republican gubernatorial rival, investor Bill Simon, son of the late William E. Simon, a treasury secretary in the Nixon and Ford administrations." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "McCaskill and her campaign team knew Akin had a penchant for verbal self-inflicted wounds, but even they likely didn't imagine how well their audacious political gamble would pay off." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Several prominent Republicans had lined up for the right to oppose McCaskill, including Akin, who was first elected to the House in 2000 and known for his anti-abortion fervor going back to his days in Jefferson City as a state legislator." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The last one was George Christopher, who was in office from 1956 to 1964." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "To that end, the McCaskill campaign ahead of the Aug. 7 primary ran ads calling Akin too conservative, which were a form of thinly veiled support for Akin's nomination in a red-trending state." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "First, though, Christopher had to get through the Republican primary against a political rookie coming off a Hollywood career named Ronald Reagan." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "First, though, Christopher had to get through the Republican primary against a political rookie coming off a Hollywood career named Ronald Reagan." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Reagan proved a much more formidable candidate than Brown and Democrats had expected." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Nixon and Co. got their man in Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, a liberal Democrat who won a scant 17 Electoral College votes (Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.) to incumbent Nixon's 520." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Nixon and Co. got their man in Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, a liberal Democrat who won a scant 17 Electoral College votes (Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.) to incumbent Nixon's 520." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Nixon and Co. got their man in Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, a liberal Democrat who won a scant 17 Electoral College votes (Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.) to incumbent Nixon's 520." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Though the matter had been used against Christopher in previous campaigns, it stuck." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "And McCaskill, who favored abortion rights, wasn't shy about pointing out the comment to voters." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "So, Democratic operatives dug up Christopher's old conviction for violating milk-pricing law from the days when the former San Francisco mayor owned a dairy." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "After all, the Watergate scandal that drove President Richard Nixon from office in 1974 was based in part on efforts by him and his cronies to ensure the weakest possible 1972 Democratic nominee." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Targets included Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine, who was knocked out of the Democratic primary process early." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Reagan ran on a tough-on-crime platform and promises to crack down on college campus protests, among other issues." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "All the while, Democrats are on defense over President Joe Biden's sinking approval ratings, the worst inflation in 40 years, spiking gas prices, and a range of other political problems." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Brown and his strategists wanted to get the more centrist Christopher out of the way so the governor could instead face Reagan, the conservative political newcomer the incumbent thought would be weaker." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Brown and his strategists wanted to get the more centrist Christopher out of the way so the governor could instead face Reagan, the conservative political newcomer the incumbent thought would be weaker." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "She went on to crush Akin 55" | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "She went on to crush Akin 55" | Negative | -8% Liberal |
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30% : But Riordan's political fortunes began to plummet when Davis's campaign pumped as much as $10 million into a blitz of television commercials that portrayed the former mayor as changing his positions on abortion, the death penalty, and other issues.*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.