Stephanie Grace: In some states, people get to vote on things like abortion rights. Not in Louisiana.

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  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

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  • Politician Portrayal

    14% Negative

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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"In Ohio, citizens didn't vote specifically on abortion, but they did defeat a ballot measure aimed at making future ballot measures harder to pass by raising the threshold for passage from a simple majority to 60"
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-18% Liberal
"This was a ham-handed attempt to put new, harder rules in place -- in an under-radar August election no less -- ahead of a fall ballot measure that actually will be about abortion."
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-20% Liberal
"Without citizen initiative, the idea has died repeatedly in the business-dominated Louisiana Legislature, despite Gov. John Bel Edwards' advocacy."
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-4% Liberal
"Other priorities that have been adopted this way in other states include legalized recreational marijuana, which is not permitted here, and Medicaid expansion, which Edwards adopted by executive order."
Negative
-10% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : In Ohio, citizens didn't vote specifically on abortion, but they did defeat a ballot measure aimed at making future ballot measures harder to pass by raising the threshold for passage from a simple majority to 60%.
40% : This was a ham-handed attempt to put new, harder rules in place -- in an under-radar August election no less -- ahead of a fall ballot measure that actually will be about 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.

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