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Our Views: Edwin Edwards' long and remarkable ride in politics

Jul 13, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -58% Medium Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -16% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    28% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : He changed with the times, promoting better environmental regulations after having a dismal on pollution during his first two terms.
57% : Edwards wanted more public spending on welfare programs, not less, and used oil and gas revenues to pay for them; his pivotal decisions on oil taxation in the early 1970s transformed Louisiana's public finance.
41% : He pushed even compliant legislators to the point of rebellion to levy taxes to build bridges and university buildings, as well as raise pay for teachers and state employees.

*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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