RealClearPolitics Article RatingVirginia, Not California, Will Provide Lessons for '22 | RealClearPolitics
Sep 17, 2021 View Original Article
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| "But it's difficult to separate out his pandemic policies from California voters' rejections of other right-wing Elder views, such as opposition to abortion or a minimum wage of any kind, and paid maternity leave, to name just a few." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "That is especially true for Republican Rep. Mike Garcia's highly competitive swing district located north of Los Angeles." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Biden/Trump margin would easily win Rs the House & Senate in 2022." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "More mail-in ballots will trickle in until early next week, but as of Wednesday, support and opposition for the recall was nearly evenly divided in Orange County seats controlled by Republican Reps. Michelle Steel and Young Kim" | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "More mail-in ballots will trickle in until early next week, but as of Wednesday, support and opposition for the recall was nearly evenly divided in Orange County seats controlled by Republican Reps. Michelle Steel and Young Kim" | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "California's 49 Congressional District, which spans the coastline of south Orange and north San Diego counties, is represented by Democratic Rep. Mike Levin." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's smackdown of the recall was no different this week." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Biden and other Democrats declaring a major victory after spending $80 million to win on such friendly territory and without a credible Republican challenger -- and after benefiting from the president and the vice president visiting the state -- is like me bragging about wiing a [campaign] in Alabama, said Matt Gorman, a GOP political consultant who previously served as the communications director of the National Republican Congressional Committee." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "California voters rejected the Republican brand that is centered around insurrection and denying the pandemic, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told reporters Wednesday." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "For the past two election cycles, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said the path to a Democratic House majority runs through California, and that will be no different next year." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Garcia, a former Navy fighter pilot and defense industry executive, defied polls and narrowly defeated Democratic rival Christy Smith twice last year, first in a special election prompted by former Rep. Katie Hill's resignation, then in a regular contest a few months later." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "President Biden deemed the recall's landslide defeat a resounding win for Democrats and his administration's vaccine and COVID-related mandates." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "In 2020, Republican Rep. David Valadao narrowly wrested back the seat he lost to a Democrat in 2018 in a district made up of portions of Kings as well as parts of Fresno, Kern and Tulare counties." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "The district is home to Camp Pendleton, one of the largest military installations in the country, so Biden's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan could have played a role." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Even though Trump lost the state by nearly 30 points in 2020, that year Republicans managed to retake four of seven House seats across the state that they lost in the 2018 blue wave." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "They can't run these cartoon versions of Donald Trump ... who represent the extremes of the Republican Party, because it's not really where voters are, Rathod told RCP." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Still, Nick Rathod, a Democrat who served in the Obama White House, says the GOP should be wary of ruing far-right candidates and framing upcoming elections as a referendum on Democratic pandemic polices." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "The only firm message the California recall provides is that Democrats are slightly less supportive of Newsom now than they were of Biden when he ran against Trump last year." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The only firm message the California recall provides is that Democrats are slightly less supportive of Newsom now than they were of Biden when he ran against Trump last year." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Republicans never stood a chance without a big-name mainstream celebrity ruing in a state where Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden by nearly 30 percentage points last fall and registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 2-to-1 margin." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Republicans never stood a chance without a big-name mainstream celebrity ruing in a state where Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden by nearly 30 percentage points last fall and registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 2-to-1 margin." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Georgia Republicans' dreams of ruing football great Herschel Walker, another African American arch-conservative aligned with Trump, against first-term Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, would be a mistake, he argued." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Georgia Republicans' dreams of ruing football great Herschel Walker, another African American arch-conservative aligned with Trump, against first-term Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, would be a mistake, he argued." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
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43% : But it's difficult to separate out his pandemic policies from California voters' rejections of other right-wing Elder views, such as opposition to abortion or a minimum wage of any kind, and paid maternity leave, to name just a few.*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.