The vaunted red wave never hit the shore in midterm elections

Nov 09, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -22% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    30% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    96% 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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"Republican candidates said they can bring down the cost of living, deal with crime and secure the southern border, but they have provided only scant policy details."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Exit polls showed that about 3 in 10 voters cited abortion as the most important issue in their vote."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"The last time they were in control of the presidency, the House and the Senate, which was after Trump was elected president in 2016, they stumbled badly on a pledge to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, squabbled among themselves and were saddled with unhappiness over Trump's conduct in office."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"Biden especially picked up the theme, delivering two speeches on the topic, including one in the closing days of the campaign."
Positive
26% Conservative
"Meanwhile, Democrats retained Sen. Maggie Hassan's seat in New Hampshire, one that Republicans saw as a potential pickup that would signal a baer night for the party."
Positive
20% Conservative
"In the Georgia Senate race, Democratic incumbent Raphael G. Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker were in a virtual tie all evening."
Positive
2% Conservative
"One was in Virginia, where Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D) was reelected; another was in Rhode Island, where Seth Magaziner (D) prevailed."
Positive
0% Conservative
"If Democrats were to lose both the House and Senate, Biden would be yet another president who saw control of Congress shift on his watch."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"If it was a referendum on Biden, it was also a referendum on the Republicans and America itself."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"It was the first balloting since rioters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to aid Trump in his quest to overturn the 2020 election results and remain in power."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Walker, whose troubled past had dogged him throughout the election, was ruing several points behind Gov. Brian Kemp (R), who easily won his reelection over Democrat Stacey Abrams."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"This year was President Biden's and the Democrats' time to feel the voters' discontent - and the unhappiness was widespread, even as Democrats in some hotly contested races were holding on."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"The House results alone - assuming the Republicans netted the five seats they needed to take control, an outcome Democratic officials were widely expecting - would be enough to shake up Washington, enough to throw Biden and the Democrats on the defensive after two years in which they controlled - barely - the main levers of power in the capital."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"By 2 a.m. Wednesday, the only Senate seat to switch party control was in Pesylvania, where Fetterman was projected to defeat Republican Mehmet Oz to succeed the retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R)."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Try as Biden did to make it a choice between his leadership and that of former president Donald Trump and what he labeled the MAGA Republicans, it was in fact more of a referendum on the incumbent administration than anything else."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Try as Biden did to make it a choice between his leadership and that of former president Donald Trump and what he labeled the MAGA Republicans, it was in fact more of a referendum on the incumbent administration than anything else."
Positive
8% Conservative
"In 2010, under President Barack Obama, they surrendered the House, and in 2014 they lost control of the Senate."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Republicans tried to take advantage of prevailing public sentiment about inflation and crime and Biden's low approval ratings."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Last April, John Anzalone, who was Biden's lead pollster in 2020, remarked in a Politico interview that what he was seeing in polls and focus groups added up to the worst political environment in my lifetime."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"The last time they were in control of the presidency, the House and the Senate, which was after Trump was elected president in 2016, they stumbled badly on a pledge to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, squabbled among themselves and were saddled with unhappiness over Trump's conduct in office."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"The last time they were in control of the presidency, the House and the Senate, which was after Trump was elected president in 2016, they stumbled badly on a pledge to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, squabbled among themselves and were saddled with unhappiness over Trump's conduct in office."
Negative
-40% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Republican candidates said they can bring down the cost of living, deal with crime and secure the southern border, but they have provided only scant policy details.
35% :Exit polls showed that about 3 in 10 voters cited abortion as the most important issue in their vote.
25% : The last time they were in control of the presidency, the House and the Senate, which was after Trump was elected president in 2016, they stumbled badly on a pledge to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, squabbled among themselves and were saddled with unhappiness over Trump's conduct in office.

*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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