The Advocate Article Rating

7 days of early voting start Friday to elect statewide elected officials and others

  • Bias Rating

    -16% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -24% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Voting early "gives you the most amount of flexibility," said John Tobler, a spokesperson for the Secretary of State's office, which oversees voting.
53% : There are 131 races and 266 candidates on the runoff ballot overall, the Secretary of State's office said.
49% : The Secretary of State's office is projecting an overall dismal turnout for the runoff of 15% to 18%, down from 36% in the primary.
46% : The Secretary of State match-up pits Nancy Landry, a Republican from Lafayette who is the top aide to Kyle Ardoin, the outgoing secretary, against Gwen Collins-Greenup, a Democrat in Baton Rouge who runs a boutique law firm with offices across Louisiana.

*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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