What to Make of the Midterms? Here Are Four Takeaways

Nov 09, 2022 View Original Article
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  • Policy Leaning

    30% Medium Conservative

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Bias Score Analysis

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"Instead, Democrats outperformed polls and handed the GOP some unexpected defeats over issues such as abortion."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Some fiercely contested positions went to Democrats over Republicans, among them the Pesylvania Senate seat that Lt. Gov. John Fetterman won over Dr. Mehmet Oz, and the New Hampshire Senate seat that first-term Maggie Hassan held on to in the face of a challenge from retired Army Brig."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Democrats such as Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, who campaigned on protecting abortion rights, won their races."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"But in Florida, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis won big, flipping Miami-Dade County and beating back former Gov. Charlie Crist decisively."
Positive
10% Conservative
"But in Florida, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis won big, flipping Miami-Dade County and beating back former Gov. Charlie Crist decisively."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Republicans under former President Donald Trump lost 40 seats in the House and gained two seats in the Senate in 2018, according to the American Presidency Project at UC Santa Barbara."
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-32% Liberal
"In Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the victim of an anti-government kidnapping plot, defeated Republican Tudor Dixon."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Hobbs, the state's secretary of state, had beaten back claims of fraud while Lake embraced Trump's unfounded claims about stolen elections and conspiracies."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"Democrats while former President Barack Obama was in office lost 13 House seats and nine in the Senate in the 2014 midterm elections."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"Still to be decided were Senate races in Arizona pitting Democratic Mark Kelly in a re-election bid against Republican Blake Masters and in Nevada, where Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto was up against Republican Adam Laxalt."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"Still to be decided were Senate races in Arizona pitting Democratic Mark Kelly in a re-election bid against Republican Blake Masters and in Nevada, where Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto was up against Republican Adam Laxalt."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"In Georgia, Sen. Raphael Warnock was headed to a runoff against former football star Herschel Walker, whom former President Donald Trump urged to run."
Positive
6% Conservative
"In Georgia, Sen. Raphael Warnock was headed to a runoff against former football star Herschel Walker, whom former President Donald Trump urged to run."
Positive
6% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

35% :Instead, Democrats outperformed polls and handed the GOP some unexpected defeats over issues such as abortion.

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