TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, an entity and its sentiment towards the entity, verify if it is the correct sentiment towards the entity. Answer should be yes or no. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Donna Brazile is Negative . Donna Brazile . (Joe Raedle/Associated Press)
On Thursday  former Democratic National Committee interim chair  Donna Brazile  made a surprising revelation: An August 2015 agreement gave Hillary Clintonâs campaign partial control of the DNC months prior to Clinton winning the nomination. The âagreement was not illegal â  Brazile  writes  âbut it sure looked unethical.â The news reignited a debate among politicos and activists over whether the DNC influenced the Democratic primary. Whether the primary was âriggedâ or just business as usual though  Brazileâs allegations are only the latest evidence of the Democratic Partyâs troubles  and why the party establishment is ill-equipped to solve them.
Start with something that  Brazile âs article doesnât touch on: the electoral record. At the federal level  Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress. The GOP House majority is at its largest in 70 years. Though two-thirds of the Senate seats contested in 2016 were held by Republicans  Democrats only gained two seats  losing races against very vulnerable GOP incumbents. At the state level  Republicans are at their strongest since the 1930s. Republicans control both the state legislatures and governorships in 24 states  compared with Democratsâ five. The GOPâs ruthless exploitation of gerrymandering â aided by its control of so many states â has helped increase GOP control  but much blame still lies with Democratic leaders.
Here is what you need to know about the political storm sparked by  Donna Brazile 's allegations against the Clinton campaign. (Amber Ferguson Melissa Macaya/The Washington Post)
Then thereâs the financial mismanagement. Money troubles for the DNC are hardly unprecedented  but the struggles appear to have worsened considerably in the past few years.  Brazile  says that the partyâs monthly expenditures had doubled in the previous five years  in large part because of former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and President Barack Obama keeping expensive consultants on the payroll. (Given Democratsâ electoral failures  what these consultants were doing is anyoneâs guess.) Of course  itâs in  Brazile âs interest to blame things on  her  predecessor. But a former senior party official independently confirmed the troubles to the Interceptâs Ryan Grim  adding that the DNC was unable to make payroll in August 2015 and was âapproaching the equivalent of bankruptcy.â

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Shinzo Abe is Positive . In an interview with NHK after polls closed   Abe  said  he  would push for an amendment.
“The ruling parties have been granted a majority ”  he  said. “I think it was the people’s voice telling us to make progress in politics and bring results with a stable political base.”
For a leader touting stability  the election had been a gamble.  Abe  had called the vote more than a year early  justifying it by saying that  he  needed a new mandate to deal with the threat posed by North Korea and to work through the details of a consumption-tax increase.
Many analysts said  Abe ’s motive was more opportunistic  however  with the prime minister taking advantage of the disarray of the Democratic Party  Japan’s main opposition party  and a small bump in  his  approval ratings after a number of scandals earlier this year.
The LDP has long dominated postwar Japanese politics. For many Japanese voters   Abe ’s leadership represents stability after years of short-lived governments before  he  returned to the prime minister’s office in 2012.
Some analysts suggest  however  that the weakness of the opposition may mask discontent with  Abe  and a lack of support for many of  his  policies. One exit poll cited by Kyodo showed 51 percent of voters saying they don’t trust  Abe   while 44.1 percent said they do.
Koichi Nakano  a professor of political science at Sophia University  said that the election exposed a lack of widespread support for  Abe ’s policies.  Abe  did not win “because people enthusiastically support  him  ” Nakano said. “People are disaffected and the opposition is divided.”
The bad weather may have also helped  Abe . The approaching Typhoon Lan left voters battling strong winds and heavy rain to make it to polling stations. On Monday  Kyodo estimated the final turnout at 53.69 percent  only marginally above a record low in the 2014 election.
Despite the rain  a number of voters could be found exiting a polling station in Tokyo’s cosmopolitan Roppongi neighborhood Sunday morning. Nobue Koizumi  a 67-year-old retired translator  said she had felt compelled to vote because of fears about  Abe ’s security policies.
“I don’t particularly support  Abe   but I do support” the LDP  said Hiroki Shinohara  a 54-year-old wholesaler at the Tsukiji fish market. “I feel it’s doing what’s right for Japan  and Japan needs it.”

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Darren Drake is Positive . Terror victim Darren Drakeâs father  struggled to say  his  final goodbye to  his  only child after a deeply emotional funeral service Monday.
Under cloudy skies   James Drake  said a brief prayer and placed roses on  his  32-year-old sonâs wooden casket at Fairview Cemetery.
 He  patted the casket three times before stepping away to watch the body be lowered into the ground.
Earlier  several hundred mourners filled the New Milford church in New Jersey to say farewell to the âgentle giantâ who was killed on Oct. 31 while riding a CitiBike during a break from  his  job at Moodyâs Investors Services in the World Trade Center.
 New Jersey grad student Darren Drake  killed in terror attack
 âDarren  was closely-knit in both  his  family and  his  community â Father David Milliken told the mourners. âAs a co-worker   he  was someone who was able to just get along with people.â
 Jimmy Drake (r.)  arrives for the funeral of  his  son  Darren Drake  in New Milford  N.J. (James Keivom/New York Daily News)
Last Tuesday   Drake  was on a CitiBike listening to an audio book when he was hit by 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov  who drove a rented Home Depot truck through the lower Manhattan bike lane.
 Darren Drake   terror victim  remembered as ' beautiful man'
Drake  who worked as a project manager at Moodyâs   took bike rides frequently in between meetings   his  family said.
Darren Drake (SOCIAL MEDIA/REUTERS)
Days after his death   Drake  received a book in the mail titled âImagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences  Godâs Promises  and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You â Milliken said.
Pallbearers place  the casket of Darren Drake  into a hearse during  his  funeral. (James Keivom/New York Daily News)
 Drake   an only son  lived with his parents in their New Milford home. There  he frequently talked with them about the latest book he was reading  his family said. He also was a loyal Jets fan and wore a Gang Green cap in  his casket  during the wake.
Mourners console each other during the funeral of Darren Drake. (James Keivom/New York Daily News)

SOLUTION:
yes