Opinion | Bill Clinton, Race and the Politics of the 1990s

Oct 10, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -98% Extremely Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

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Bias Score Analysis

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"Having committed himself in word as a candidate to the interests of the white mainstream against Black activists and civil right leaders, Clinton would do the same in deed as president, slashing welfare and fueling billions to prisons and law enforcement as part of a war on crime."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Jackson, a two-time candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, was a stand-in for the Black activist class, and Clinton's audience got the message."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Shor sees the 2020 presidential election, and Trump's significant gains with Hispanic voters, as another example of what happens when race and racial issues dominate a campaign and its media environment:"
Negative
-8% Liberal
"The Democrat who broke the party's presidential losing streak, Bill Clinton, took these recommendations."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"In the summer, following the emergence of 'defund the police' as a nationally salient issue, support for Biden among Hispanic voters declined, Shor said in a March interview with New York magazine."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"I can also imagine a version of Barack Obama's strategy of publicly rebuking some Black leaders and lecturing Black audiences about respectability."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Invited to speak at Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition conference, Clinton concluded his remarks with a now-notorious denunciation of the rapper and activist Sister Souljah, an attack by proxy on Jackson, who had brought Souljah to the event."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"What Clinton got out of the Sister Souljah affair, noted the historian Keeth O'Reilly, were votes, particularly the votes of the so-called Reagan Democrats like the North Philadelphia electrician who said 'the day he told off that [expletive] Jackson is the day he got [mine]."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Donald Trump's Republican Party may not be able to win raw majorities in national elections, but its grip on non-college whites (as well as its inroads with non-college Black and Hispanic voters, especially men) means it can easily win power in a system where the geography of your votes is just as important as the number of votes you win."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"a proponent of this approach might say -- Clinton still won 85 percent of the Black vote."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"There is a template for the kind of politics they want to see from Democratic candidates, and if it isn't the Third Way of Bill Clinton, then they should say what it is."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"In addition to that incident, there was Clinton's infamous choice to fly to Arkansas, where he still served as governor, to preside at the execution of a mentally impaired Black inmate, Ricky Ray Rector, in a macabre demonstration of his tough on crime bona fides."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Having committed himself in word as a candidate to the interests of the white mainstream against Black activists and civil right leaders, Clinton would do the same in deed as president, slashing welfare and fueling billions to prisons and law enforcement as part of a war on crime."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"In the early 1990s, the historian Thomas Sugrue writes in Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race, liberal journalists in influential periodicals like The New Republic, The Washington Post and The New York Times argued that the Democratic Party had lost its appeal on the national level because of backlash against the social programs of the 1960s."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Zachary D. Carter asks why some moderate Democrats are attacking Biden's economic plan, despite it representing centrism taken seriously."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"The positive example is Barack Obama's 2012 campaign for re-election, in which Obama downplayed issues of race and immigration and focused on economic growth and the record of his opponent, Mitt Romney, who had made his fortune in private equity."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"The positive example is Barack Obama's 2012 campaign for re-election, in which Obama downplayed issues of race and immigration and focused on economic growth and the record of his opponent, Mitt Romney, who had made his fortune in private equity."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"The negative example is the 2016 presidential election, when Hillary Clinton tried to counter Donald Trump's racist messaging with her own rhetoric of inclusion, a move that kept race and immigration salient and pushed non-college whites further into the Republican column."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"The negative example is the 2016 presidential election, when Hillary Clinton tried to counter Donald Trump's racist messaging with her own rhetoric of inclusion, a move that kept race and immigration salient and pushed non-college whites further into the Republican column."
Negative
-4% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

36% : Having committed himself in word as a candidate to the interests of the white mainstream against Black activists and civil right leaders, Clinton would do the same in deed as president, slashing welfare and funneling billions to prisons and law enforcement as part of a "war on crime."

*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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