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I spent 3 days in the 'blue wall' states. Here's what voters told me

Oct 20, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -21% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "We'll get through it" if Trump wins, she said.
43% : Trump says a lot of "over the top" things but she didn't think he governed that way when he was in office, she said.
38% : "He put his current odds of supporting Trump at 60% and said it would depend on a meeting with his large family.
37% : He started the conversation saying he would vote for Trump for the third time because he's going to "stop the flood of people coming to this country.
36% : Troye spoke with me on a vivid fall day in Washington Crossing, Pa., a historic park along the Delaware River, after appearing on stage with Harris and other Republicans who warned about Trump.
31% : "Her husband, a union Democrat, is voting for Trump for the first time but they don't talk about it at home because Gallacher, who grows repulsed when Trump appears on television, would rather avoid a heated conversation with her husband, who is unlikely to change his mind.
24% : "It's less about us and more about them," said Daniel Santos, a 36-year-old water company employee from Racine, Wis., who voted for former President Obama and Trump and has yet to make up his mind this time.
20% : "We barely survived," said Olivia Troye, a former national security official in the Trump administration who praised the actions of her former boss, Vice President Mike Pence, and others who pushed back against Trump.
16% : Regina Gallacher, a 58-year-old physical therapist from Rochester Hills, Mich., said she is looking for a third party candidate because Trump "really scares me" but and she doesn't "get warm fuzzies" when she hears Harris talk and found her replacement of President Biden on the ballot "very slimy.
9% : "Trump is obviously insane, and then Harris, I don't think she has a plan," said Clayton Ewing, a 63-year-old retiree from Shelby Township, Mich. who has voted for Trump in prior elections.

*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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