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Meet Massachusetts' most politically balanced town - The Boston Globe

Dec 01, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -30% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

91% : This is a town where live-and-let-live seems to be a guiding ethic, where comments about Trump as savior or Trump as destroyer -- when they are uttered at all -- might be met with, "This turkey is delicious.
49% : "I care about where the country's going, and we haven't been going in a good place for a while," Plummer said.Gun shop owner Ed Hallett called Trump an "easy choice."
47% : "It's hard to translate what I'm hearing from Trump and the Republican Party with the values I'm trying to teach preschoolers and my own children.
39% : "I was doing a lot better when Trump was in, financially," said John Divoll, 28, who grew up in Royalston and owns an excavation company.
1% : In 2020, the Democrat, Vice President Joe Biden, defeated Trump, 408 to 357; in 2016, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, 321 to 313.

*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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