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Iowa Starting Line Article Rating

Democrat Rob Sand launches 2026 bid for Iowa Governor

  • Bias Rating

    8% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

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  • Politician Portrayal

    14% Positive

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.

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3% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : That's my life.
53% : Sand, who is serving his second term as state auditor, is the first major Democrat to officially enter the race for the governor's mansion.
20% : He interned in the office of US Senator Tom Harkin and spent seven years working as an assistant attorney general under then-AG Tom Miller targeting public corruption.

*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.

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