New Hampshire primary elections and Democratic Senate race
6 outlets covered the same story. Here's how their headlines landed on the −5 (Far Left) to +5 (Far Right) spectrum — a 0.5-point gap between the most-left and most-right framing.
How the coverage framed it
Coverage of New Hampshire's primary elections was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points separating the most left-leaning from the most right-leaning headline. Nearly all outlets adopted neutral, informational framing — the New York Times used a straightforward "What to Watch" guide format, Politico posed a neutral question about political outcomes, and the Boston Globe focused on factual details such as federal election monitors and a congressional race preview. The modest exception was the Guardian, whose phrase "crucial to Democrats' Senate hopes" introduced a slight Democratic-centered lens by foregrounding one party's electoral stakes rather than treating the race as a broadly shared civic event. No outlet employed charged or ideologically loaded language, and the shared tone across the coverage emphasized factual reporting, electoral context, and candidate narratives without meaningfully favoring a political direction.
- -0.5The Guardian · CenterNew Hampshire voters head to polls in race crucial to Democrats’ Senate hopes
- ▸ 'crucial to Democrats' hopes' — slight Democratic focus
- ▸ mildly partisan framing but largely factual
- +0.0NY Times · CenterWhat to Watch in Tuesday’s New Hampshire Primary Elections
- ▸ 'What to Watch' — neutral informational framing
- ▸ no ideological signal
- +0.0Politico · CenterWill the House of Shaheen survive Tuesday in New Hampshire?
- ▸ neutral question framing about political outcome
- ▸ no loaded language detected
- +0.0Washington Examiner · CenterSununu and Shaheen look to keep political dynasties alive in New Hampshire
- ▸ 'political dynasties' — descriptive neutral phrase
- ▸ no ideological loading
- +0.0Boston Globe · CenterFederal election monitors expected Tuesday at N.H. polling sites: ‘We’re prepared,’ secretary of state says
- ▸ neutral 'expected' — factual election monitoring report
- ▸ no ideological framing
- +0.0Boston Globe · CenterNew England’s most intense congressional race will be decided Tuesday. A guide to N.H.’s 1st District Democratic primary.
- ▸ 'most intense congressional race' — neutral descriptor
- ▸ informational guide framing
Scores are AI estimates of headline language, not factual ratings. Each headline is scored 0 (neutral) outward to Far Left / Far Right by Claude and Grok.