New Hampshire primary results and Senate race
10 outlets covered the same story. Here's how their headlines landed on the −5 (Far Left) to +5 (Far Right) spectrum — a 1.5-point gap between the most-left and most-right framing.
How the coverage framed it
Coverage of the New Hampshire primary results was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 1.5 points separating the most-left-leaning headline from the center. The majority of outlets employed straightforwardly factual language — verbs like "wins," "defeats," and "tightens," and framing devices like "five takeaways" and "live updates" — that carried no discernible ideological signal. The modest leftward outlier was the Boston Globe's profile-style headline on Troy Jackson, which described "organized labor" as the inspiration for his political career and noted he is "counting on it" to defeat Susan Collins; scorers flagged this as casting labor in a heroic light and implying a progressive coalition frame. Politico's headline portraying Democrats as bracing for a "tough Senate race" was also noted as lending mild sympathy to that side. No headline pulled meaningfully rightward, meaning the story produced no detectable conservative counterframing to compare against.
- -1.5Boston Globe · LeftOrganized labor inspired Troy Jackson’s political career. Now, he’s counting on it to help him beat Susan Collins.
- ▸ organized labor framed as heroic inspiration
- ▸ 'counting on' labor implies progressive coalition framing
- -1.0Politico · Left‘Don’t take this one for granted’: New Hampshire Democrats brace for a tough Senate race
- ▸ 'brace for a tough' — anticipatory concern framing
- ▸ Democrats portrayed sympathetically facing difficulty
- +0.0NY Times · CenterThe Establishment Pulls Through: Five Takeaways from the New Hampshire Primaries
- ▸ neutral 'Establishment Pulls Through' — factual analysis
- ▸ 'Five Takeaways' — neutral analytical framing
- +0.0Washington Examiner · CenterStefany Shaheen defeats primary challenger in win for family legacy
- ▸ neutral 'defeats' — factual election verb
- ▸ neutral 'family legacy' framing
- +0.0The Hill · CenterNew Hampshire Senate race tightens, Rhode Island governor on track to lose: 5 primaries to watch
- ▸ neutral 'tightens' — factual polling verb
- ▸ balanced multi-race '5 primaries' framing
- +0.0Boston Globe · CenterThree takeaways from New Hampshire’s state primary
- ▸ neutral 'takeaways' — analytical framing
- ▸ factual primary coverage, no ideological signal
- +0.0Boston Globe · CenterJohn E. Sununu, Chris Pappas win N.H. primary for US Senate
- ▸ neutral 'win' — factual election verb
- ▸ factual candidate naming, no partisan framing
- +0.0Boston Globe · CenterStefany Shaheen wins Democratic nomination in N.H.’s First Congressional District
- ▸ neutral 'wins' — factual election verb
- ▸ factual district naming, no ideological signal
- +0.0NBC News · CenterElection live updates: New Hampshire voters to set Senate general election matchup
- ▸ neutral 'live updates' — factual election coverage
- ▸ neutral 'set Senate matchup' — factual framing
- +0.0HuffPost · CenterPappas Wins Democratic Primary In Key Senate Race
- ▸ neutral 'wins' — factual election verb
- ▸ factual 'key Senate race' — neutral descriptor
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.