Vanity Fair Article Rating"This Is the Beginning of a Very Long Arc": The Midterms Prove Abortion Can Galvanize Voters
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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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| "After the ballot measure to protect abortion in Michigan passed on Tuesday night, Hall hailed the victory." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "As the results rolled in throughout the night, one thing became crystal clear: Abortion was on the ballot." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Across the board, Democrats held on to crucial governor seats: Wisconsin's Tony Evers, similarly to Shapiro, emphasized his promise to use his power to knock down legislation prohibiting access to abortion in the state." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Ballot measures on abortion certainly had a showing on Tuesday." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Ballot proposals, according to Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, which backs progressive ballot measures, can be a much more distilled way of getting a sense of voters' enthusiasm as opposed to candidates where the candidate is not just responsible for their views on abortion, but also the economy and immigration and social security and all sorts of other things." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "For abortions to resume in the deep-red state, pro-choice activists have to persuade the Kentucky Supreme Court that abortion is currently shielded under existing privacy protections in the state constitution." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "This is the first time that they are able to express their outrage and their frustration, Plaed Parenthood Action Fund president Alexis McGill Johnson said of voters, in reference to the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which gutted federal protections for abortion." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Similarly, a convoluted and confusing ballot measure put forth in Montana that sought to define any embryo or fetus as a legal person, including those born prematurely or that survive attempted abortion -- even if there is ultimately still no chance of survival -- failed Tuesday night." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The vote represents a major victory for progressive activists in Mitch McCoell's backyard." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Kansas Democrat Laura Kelly also kept her governorship for one more term, providing a veto to the Republican-led state legislature." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Across the board, Democrats held on to crucial governor seats: Wisconsin's Tony Evers, similarly to Shapiro, emphasized his promise to use his power to knock down legislation prohibiting access to abortion in the state." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "By the end of the whirlwind stretch, McGill had campaigned with the likes of Vice President Kamala Harris and Scandal's Kerry Washington." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Incumbent Democrat Gretchen Whitmer beat Republican Tudor Dixon, securing another term in the Michigan governor's office." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "A longtime ally of abortion activists, Shapiro is expected to serve as a bulwark against Pesylvania's Republican-controlled legislature; he promised to veto any draconian antiabortion legislation that might cross his desk -- a reality his immediate Democratic predecessor, Tom Wolf, has faced." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
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55% : After the ballot measure to protect abortion in Michigan passed on Tuesday night, Hall hailed the victory.53% : As the results rolled in throughout the night, one thing became crystal clear: Abortion was on the ballot.
51% : Across the board, Democrats held on to crucial governor seats: Wisconsin's Tony Evers, similarly to Shapiro, emphasized his promise to use his power to knock down legislation prohibiting access to abortion in the state.
48% : Ballot measures on abortion certainly had a showing on Tuesday.
46% : Ballot proposals, according to Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, which backs progressive ballot measures, can be "a much more distilled way of getting a sense of voters' enthusiasm as opposed to candidates where the candidate is not just responsible for their views on abortion, but also the economy and immigration and social security and all sorts of other things."
44% : For abortions to resume in the deep-red state, pro-choice activists have to persuade the Kentucky Supreme Court that abortion is currently shielded under existing privacy protections in the state constitution.
38% : "This is the first time that they are able to express their outrage and their frustration," Planned Parenthood Action Fund president Alexis McGill Johnson said of voters, in reference to the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which gutted federal protections for abortion.
37% : Similarly, a convoluted and confusing ballot measure put forth in Montana that sought to define any embryo or fetus as a legal person, including those born prematurely or that survive attempted abortion -- even if there is ultimately still no chance of survival -- failed Tuesday night.
*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.