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62. How Biased Is Your Media?

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How Does the Average Article in the New York Times Compare to the Average Speech by a Democratic Heavyweight?

tim gros clos is a professor of political science and economics at u sla. He assigned each congress member a score, which he called their political quotion, or pc nd. This is just the way to say precisely how liberal someone is so a a hundred is as very liberal. These are all based on roll call votes in congress. i let theamrcans for democratic action pick the roll call votes for me. And with each roll call vote, the a d a decides whether the yea or the na alternative is liberal.

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