The Seattle Times Article Rating

Plot twist: WA has a law against felons running for office

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -36% 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:

72% : "It's Donald Trump today, it could be us tomorrow," she said.
51% : Trump won 76% of our state's GOP presidential primary vote.
50% : "States do have latitude to control the ballot.
49% : It's become like a cult, as the party seems eager to debase itself by shedding all its longstanding talk about the rule of law and personal responsibility -- as well as any chances of winning here in Washington -- to sink ever deeper into the muck of Trump.
45% : Regardless of what happens with the ballot, why not change course out of basic decency and political expediency?
44% : Congressional candidate Leslie Lewallen, who is supposedly a sensible moderate in the party, breezily said the verdict "does nothing to disqualify President Trump from holding office, and I look forward to casting my ballot for him in November.
37% : "How about 34 felonies?"I have clients lined up who are going to be all over pursuing a ballot challenge in this case," says David Vogel, a Seattle attorney and former deputy prosecutor for King County who was briefly involved in an earlier ballot challenge against Trump before the presidential primary.
20% : If local Republicans knew what was good for them, they would now move to drop Donald Trump from Washington's fall ballot.
19% : So here's another reason to dump Trump from the Washington ballot.

*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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