POLITICO Article Rating

It's not just McAuliffe vs. Youngkin. The fight is on for control of Virginia's House.

Oct 20, 2021 View Original Article
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    -10% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    -18% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    12% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Those ads attacked Democrats on issues like increased costs of living due to rising inflation, rising violent crime rates and "politicization of public education."
41% : Campaigns have zeroed in on the criminal justice reform package that put in place changes to policing practices such as banning no-knock warrants, requiring minimum training standards for police and strengthening the decertification process for law enforcement.
34% : They implemented criminal justice reforms, legalized marijuana, expanded voting rights, raised the minimum wage, enacted gun control measures, repealed the death penalty and set a goal of getting Virginia electric utilities to 100 percent renewable generation by 2050.

*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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