St. Louis Post-Dispatch Article RatingMcDermott: It's the politicians versus the people in Missouri
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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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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "On guns, polls show similarly strong support here, even among gun owners, for universal background checks for all gun sales." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "For a decade, ruling Republicans in the Legislature refused to expand Medicaid as envisioned under the Affordable Care Act, even though the federal government would pick up most of the tab." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "On abortion, to take an urgent example, polls have repeatedly found a majority of Missourians favor abortion rights early in pregnancy and overwhelmingly support those rights in cases of rape (75" | Negative | -2% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
61% : On guns, polls show similarly strong support here, even among gun owners, for universal background checks for all gun sales.57% : For a decade, ruling Republicans in the Legislature refused to expand Medicaid as envisioned under the Affordable Care Act, even though the federal government would pick up most of the tab.
49% : On abortion, to take an urgent example, polls have repeatedly found a majority of Missourians favor abortion rights early in pregnancy and overwhelmingly support those rights in cases of rape (75% of all Missourians, according to a St. Louis University poll last year, including 60% of Republicans).
43% : If they succeed, it won't stop with abortion.
*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.