The politics of New Hampshire, America's quirkiest state, explained

Oct 13, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -28% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    98% 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.

Sentiments

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  •   Conservative
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"The growing educational polarization in the United States emphasizes just how out of the ordinary it is, as an ancestrally Republican state where voters have an aversion both to paying taxes and to attending church."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"It's these issues that candidates are focusing on in the general election, with television ads on abortion and the economy."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"(Sununu won by 30 percent and Shaheen won by 15 percent, in a state that Biden won by 7 percent.)"
Negative
-14% Liberal
"(Sununu won by 30 percent and Shaheen won by 15 percent, in a state that Biden won by 7 percent.)"
Negative
-14% Liberal
"(Sununu won by 30 percent and Shaheen won by 15 percent, in a state that Biden won by 7 percent.)"
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Pappas won the seat in 2018 and fended off a tight challenge in 2020 from Matt Mowers, a veteran Republican operative."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Pappas won the seat in 2018 and fended off a tight challenge in 2020 from Matt Mowers, a veteran Republican operative."
Positive
0% Conservative
"George W. Bush won it twice, as did Obama, while Trump narrowly won it in 2016 before Biden bested him in 2020."
Positive
4% Conservative
"George W. Bush won it twice, as did Obama, while Trump narrowly won it in 2016 before Biden bested him in 2020."
Positive
4% Conservative
"George W. Bush won it twice, as did Obama, while Trump narrowly won it in 2016 before Biden bested him in 2020."
Positive
4% Conservative
"While the federal races are toss-ups or even Democratic leaning, incumbent Republican Gov. Chris Sununu is handily favored for reelection to a third term."
Positive
16% Conservative
"The longtime Republican stronghold has become one of the most tightly contested swing states of the 21st century -- in 2016, in a state with a population of 1.3 million, Hillary Clinton won the state by 2,736 votes while Democrat Maggie Hassan bested incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte by 1,017 votes."
Positive
4% Conservative
"The longtime Republican stronghold has become one of the most tightly contested swing states of the 21st century -- in 2016, in a state with a population of 1.3 million, Hillary Clinton won the state by 2,736 votes while Democrat Maggie Hassan bested incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte by 1,017 votes."
Positive
4% Conservative
"The longtime Republican stronghold has become one of the most tightly contested swing states of the 21st century -- in 2016, in a state with a population of 1.3 million, Hillary Clinton won the state by 2,736 votes while Democrat Maggie Hassan bested incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte by 1,017 votes."
Positive
4% Conservative
"In her primary, she ran a red-meat MAGA campaign, appealing to the voters who gave Trump his first presidential primary victory in 2016, but only won with the help of a third, moderate candidate dividing the vote."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Pappas, whose family owns a local restaurant famous for its chicken tenders, spent over a decade in local and state elected office before being elected to Congress in 2018."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Leavitt has run a highly nationalized race, drawing campaign appearances from national figures like Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Lauren Boebert, and appearing on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Leavitt has run a highly nationalized race, drawing campaign appearances from national figures like Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Lauren Boebert, and appearing on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show."
Positive
2% Conservative
"For the better part of the last decade, Democrat Carol Shea-Porter and Republican Frank Guinta switched off holding the district's congressional seat."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"For the better part of the last decade, Democrat Carol Shea-Porter and Republican Frank Guinta switched off holding the district's congressional seat."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"The Trump-skeptical Republican is expected to do well in erstwhile Republican strongholds like the leafy, well-to-do suburban town of Bedford, which has swung heavily to Democrats in recent years."
Positive
0% Conservative
"The highest profile campaign in New Hampshire this year is the Senate race, where Hassan is facing a challenge from Republican Don Bolduc, a retired brigadier general from the US Army."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"No longer, in terms of the folks you see ruing for office in New Hampshire, said Pappas."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Pappas, who first won his seat in the 2018 midterms, is a prototypical swing seat Democrat, who has kept a relatively low national profile."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Her opponent, Pappas, appeared that same week at a neighborhood event in South Manchester with a minimal entourage and mingled with voters, chitchatting about mutual acquaintances."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"The general election matchup between Pappas and Leavitt is rated a toss-up by national forecasters."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"He said the GOP's shift rightward, and toward Trump, helped Democrats in the Granite State."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"While the state had traditionally leaned Republican, it often elected more establishment figures like Warren Rudman and Judd Gregg."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"While the state had traditionally leaned Republican, it often elected more establishment figures like Warren Rudman and Judd Gregg."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Nobody listened, jabbed Sununu, who has been a vocal Trump critic at times as well."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Nobody listened, jabbed Sununu, who has been a vocal Trump critic at times as well."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"While national Republicans spent heavily to prop up Morse, national Democrats ran attack ads against him in the primary, hoping Bolduc would win -- and be easier for Hassan to beat."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"The marquee House race in the state between two-term incumbent Chris Pappas and Republican challenger Karoline Leavitt is far more competitive, and could be more revealing about the political climate in the Granite State."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"In contrast, Leavitt, a former junior staffer in the Trump administration, has frequently appeared on conservative media and insisted that Trump won in 2020."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"In contrast, Leavitt, a former junior staffer in the Trump administration, has frequently appeared on conservative media and insisted that Trump won in 2020."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Even in 2020, one of the most fiercely partisan years in American history, both Sununu and incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeae Shaheen ran significantly ahead of their party's presidential nominees."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Even in 2020, one of the most fiercely partisan years in American history, both Sununu and incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeae Shaheen ran significantly ahead of their party's presidential nominees."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Bolduc, who has promoted multiple conspiracy theories about Covid-19 and who has falsely claimed that Trump won the 2020 election, narrowly edged out state Senate President Chuck Morse in the September primary."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"The lone arch right-winger elected statewide in recent decades, two-term Sen. Bob Smith, lost his 2002 primary to John E. Sununu."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"He noted that Biden failed to do this in New Hampshire in the 2020 presidential primary and finished in fifth place."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Despite working for both Trump's campaign and administration, Mowers lost his 2022 primary for being too much of a moderate."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"Despite working for both Trump's campaign and administration, Mowers lost his 2022 primary for being too much of a moderate."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"Leavitt, a 25-year-old who worked for Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) after Trump left office, attacked Mowers's conservative credentials because he worked for former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's presidential campaign and with coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx in the Trump administration."
Negative
-76% Liberal
"Leavitt, a 25-year-old who worked for Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) after Trump left office, attacked Mowers's conservative credentials because he worked for former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's presidential campaign and with coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx in the Trump administration."
Negative
-76% Liberal
"Leavitt, a 25-year-old who worked for Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) after Trump left office, attacked Mowers's conservative credentials because he worked for former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's presidential campaign and with coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx in the Trump administration."
Negative
-76% Liberal
"Leavitt, a 25-year-old who worked for Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) after Trump left office, attacked Mowers's conservative credentials because he worked for former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's presidential campaign and with coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx in the Trump administration."
Negative
-76% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The growing educational polarization in the United States emphasizes just how out of the ordinary it is, as an ancestrally Republican state where voters have an aversion both to paying taxes and to attending church.
43% :It's these issues that candidates are focusing on in the general election, with television ads on abortion and the economy.

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