Chicago Tribune Article Rating

Steve Chapman: The false alarms about socialism keep coming as Kamala Harris campaigns

  • Bias Rating

    14% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    30% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -11% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : But Medicare came to pass, and, wonder of wonders, socialism didn't.
53% : When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, Investors Business Daily ran a 21-part series of editorials titled "The Audacity of Socialism."
49% : Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council under Trump, labels her a "big-government California socialist."
42% : "I still want Medicare for All, and free public college, and student-debt forgiveness for all," she lamented.
37% : Harris, who once endorsed Medicare for All and the Green New Deal, has backed off on both.
27% : Right-wing alarmists don't believe her, forgetting that Trump has changed his mind on a host of issues.

*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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