Business Insider Article RatingSpecial elections are confusing, chaotic messes that bleed taxpayers -- and could often be avoided if politicians quit before leveling up, flaming out, or dropping dead
Sep 19, 2022 View Original Article
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| "I don't know why, Ryan said of gun violence and abortion." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "The prospect of a new person -- even though it was going to be this slightly shortened timeline of a special election -- that was very appealing, Tricia Zunker, who ran in a special election for a district in Northern and Central Wisconsin in spring 2020 as a Democrat, told Insider." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "James Kus, the top election official in Fresno County, was implementing California's new congressional-district lines when powerful GOP Rep. Devin Nunes, a top Trump ally in Congress, left office to lead the Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind the former president's Truth Social platform." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "James Kus, the top election official in Fresno County, was implementing California's new congressional-district lines when powerful GOP Rep. Devin Nunes, a top Trump ally in Congress, left office to lead the Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind the former president's Truth Social platform." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Dan McCready, a businessperson and a Marine Corps veteran, was one of the many Democrats compelled to run for office in the wake of Donald Trump's win in the 2016 presidential election." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "And only 11,662 of them chose Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick to represent the Broward County-based district of over 800,000 people in total, in a primary where she ultimately beat out the second-place candidate by just five votes." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Therefore, any member of Congress may, like Young did, serve in perpetuity, their political careers interrupted only by constituent intervention or their own mortality." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Voters in both states will now decide whether the wiers of those special elections -- Mark Kelly of Arizona, a Democrat, and Raphael Warnock of Georgia, also a Democrat -- deserve their own six-year terms." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Voters in both states will now decide whether the wiers of those special elections -- Mark Kelly of Arizona, a Democrat, and Raphael Warnock of Georgia, also a Democrat -- deserve their own six-year terms." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The prolonged special-election process also left the district's constituents without a vote in Washington for over nine months until Cherfilus-McCormick won the January general election, one that just 55,703 people voted in." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "And Zunker said that while a special election kept her message from being drowned out by other candidates and races, the sheer size of her district made it challenging to compete financially and on the airwaves." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Young and Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida, a Democrat, entered the current session of Congress as two of the US House's three oldest members." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The 25-term Rep. Don Young of Alaska would leave Congress by one of only two routes." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The high-profile 2017 special Senate election in Alabama between former federal prosecutor Doug Jones, a Democrat, and Roy Moore, a Republican, hit over $48 million in campaign spending and likely cost the state over $15 million to conduct between the primary, the primary runoff, and the general election." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Ryan, the Ulster County executive, successfully seized on the backlash to Supreme Court decisions on abortion and gun restrictions to win the special election to replace now-Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado in a battleground district in upstate New York." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Previously overlooked special elections galvanized voters and became national beacons of hope and existential power struggles early on in the Trump era for Democrats, who poured money and time into electing candidates like Ossoff in the Atlanta suburbs, Lamb in western Pesylvania, and Jones in Alabama." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Previously overlooked special elections galvanized voters and became national beacons of hope and existential power struggles early on in the Trump era for Democrats, who poured money and time into electing candidates like Ossoff in the Atlanta suburbs, Lamb in western Pesylvania, and Jones in Alabama." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Previously overlooked special elections galvanized voters and became national beacons of hope and existential power struggles early on in the Trump era for Democrats, who poured money and time into electing candidates like Ossoff in the Atlanta suburbs, Lamb in western Pesylvania, and Jones in Alabama." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Sen. Robert Byrd, 92, Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 89, and Rep. Louise Slaughter, 88, are other members of Congress who served into their late 80s or early 90s before dying in office and, as a result, triggering a special election." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Sen. Robert Byrd, 92, Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 89, and Rep. Louise Slaughter, 88, are other members of Congress who served into their late 80s or early 90s before dying in office and, as a result, triggering a special election." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Sen. Robert Byrd, 92, Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 89, and Rep. Louise Slaughter, 88, are other members of Congress who served into their late 80s or early 90s before dying in office and, as a result, triggering a special election." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "While special elections sometimes open unexpected doors for new candidates like now-Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia and Rep. Conor Lamb in Pesylvania, they're expensive, have low turnout, and are sometimes chaotic affairs that bleed taxpayers, confuse and exhaust voters, and, in many cases, can be avoided if lawmakers choose to step aside earlier." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "While special elections sometimes open unexpected doors for new candidates like now-Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia and Rep. Conor Lamb in Pesylvania, they're expensive, have low turnout, and are sometimes chaotic affairs that bleed taxpayers, confuse and exhaust voters, and, in many cases, can be avoided if lawmakers choose to step aside earlier." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "McCready ultimately lost his special election to Republican Dan Bishop but, three years on, views it as a flashpoint in long-ruing struggles over democracy." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "He summed up his and many of his peers' sentiment about California's senior senator: I'm sorry, Diae Feinstein, you have been in office for 52 years." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Just over 55,000 voters cast ballots in the 11-way special Democratic primary election to replace Hastings, the South Florida representative, after he died of cancer in April 2021." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Lourin Hubbard, a 33-year-old water-quality-control manager in California's Central Valley, jumped at the chance to run for Congress when Nunes resigned." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "In 2020, voters in Arizona and Georgia were bombarded with advertising as out-of-state cash poured into the US Senate special elections prompted, respectively, by the death of Republican Sen. John McCain and the health-related resignation of GOP Sen. Johy Isakson." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "In 2020, voters in Arizona and Georgia were bombarded with advertising as out-of-state cash poured into the US Senate special elections prompted, respectively, by the death of Republican Sen. John McCain and the health-related resignation of GOP Sen. Johy Isakson." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Thad Cochran, 80, and James Inhofe, 87, set off special elections by aouncing their resignations before the end of their terms." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Thad Cochran, 80, and James Inhofe, 87, set off special elections by aouncing their resignations before the end of their terms." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
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32% : I don't know why," Ryan said of gun violence and 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.