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'World of Warcraft' State Senate Candidate Wins Election | Synopsis

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'World of Warcraft' State Senate Candidate Wins Election

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Colleen Lachowitz, the Democratic state senate candidate in Maine whose race drew national attention when the state’s Republican party attacked her for her world of warcraft persona, won election on Tuesday, ousting Republican incumbent Tom H. Martin Jr. by a little over 900 votes, according to the Morning Sentinel. Lachowitz drew criticism from the Maine state GOP for comments the candidate made online while playing World of Warcraft (Lachowicz is a level 85 orc in the popular multi-player online role-playing game. ) Only, it wasn’t Lachowicz herself who made the comments–it was Lachowicz’s warcraft alter-ego, Santiaga. Santiaga said some not-so-nice things about Republicans, including conservative tax icon and promoter of the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” Grover Norquist. Santiaga commented that she “may have to go and hunt down Grover Norquist and drown him in my bath tub.

People:

Lachowicz

Overall Sentiment: -0.0610588

Relevance: 0.872516

Grover Norquist

Overall Sentiment: 0.192767

Relevance: 0.642748

Santiaga

Overall Sentiment: -0.0631006

Relevance: 0.492044

SentimentQuote
0.0853232Santiaga said some not-so-nice things about Republicans, including conservative tax icon and promoter of the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” ...
-0.0627392Santiaga commented that she “may have to go and hunt down Grover Norquist and drown him in my bath tub.”
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.022584
  • Mean: 0.011292
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Colleen Lachowitz

Overall Sentiment: -0.253491

Relevance: 0.489263

Tom H. Martin Jr.

Overall Sentiment: -0.294242

Relevance: 0.341314

David Sorenson

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.29087

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  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

StateOrCounty: Maine

Overall Sentiment: -0.121807

Relevance: 0.606295

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Country: US

Overall Sentiment: 0.341843

Relevance: 0.347236

Disambiguation: Location | Region | AdministrativeDivision | GovernmentalJurisdiction | FilmEditorReferences:

Organization: Maine Republican Party

Overall Sentiment: 0.233794

Relevance: 0.514056

Organization: senate

Overall Sentiment: 0.0178863

Relevance: 0.364454

Company: facebook

Overall Sentiment: 0.0963775

Relevance: 0.329777

FieldTerminology: World of Warcraft

Overall Sentiment: 0.0660953

Relevance: 0.476747

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