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Sweeney era atop NJ Senate ends with gov campaign on horizon

Jan 11, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -2% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    30% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -62% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : Sweeney said in 2011 that he made the "biggest mistake of my legislative career" when he opposed marriage equality.
37% : Though Sweeney was a fellow Democrat, he fought Murphy at the start of his administration over raising income taxes on the wealthy and worked closely with Christie over his eight-year term in office ending in 2018.

*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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