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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points across outlets, and no meaningful left-right divide is evident in the headlines. The most notable framing difference is that NPR used the verb "plummeted" to describe the polling shift, a word scorers flagged as loaded for implying a dramatic fall rather than a measured decline. The Star Tribune's headline, meanwhile, addresses a related but distinct angle — Republican outreach to Somali voters — rather than the core evangelical polling story, making a direct apples-to-apples framing comparison difficult. Both headlines lean slightly left of center, largely through word choice and emphasis rather than any sharp ideological contrast. Readers should note that the narrow spread here reflects broadly similar editorial instincts across outlets rather than polarized interpretations of the underlying polling data.