TASK DEFINITION: Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bill Haslam ? Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam announced on Thursday that  he  will not run for the Republican nomination to replace retiring Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) in the 2018 election.
â Gov Bill Haslam  will not run for the U.S. Senate seat held by retiring Sen. Bob Corker  leaving U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn as the likely frontrunner  if  she  chooses to run â The Tennessean reported on Thursday morning:
The governor  who is term-limited  made the announcement Thursday in a news release. âWhile Crissy and I will always be grateful for all of the encouragement and support to run for the United States Senate  I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for Senate in 2018 â  Haslam  said in a statement.
The full statement  released by the governorâs office Thursday morning  offered this explanation of  his  decision not to run for the United States Senate in 2018:
 Haslam âs announcement comes in the wake of a recent series of articles at Breitbart News that highlighted  his  political vulnerabilities:
While conservatives have been coalescing around a potential candidacy of Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07)   Haslamâs  decision not to run leaves a void that the establishment Republicans in the state are likely to fill with another candidate.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Mitt Romney ? Former Vice President Joe Biden will join Mitt Romney and other prominent Republicans at an annual summit in Utah this week . 
Romney , the Republican presidential nominee in 2012 , will interview Biden , on Friday as part of the three-day summit , the Associated Press reported . 
The invitation-only Experts and Enthusiasts -LRB- E2 -RRB- Summit in Park City , Utah , will feature a number of prominent Republicans , including Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain , both vocal GOP critics of President Donald Trump , and House Speaker Paul Ryan , who was Romney 's running mate in 2012 . 
Biden is not the first Democrat to attend Romney 's annual summit . 
At the summit last year , Romney , then a "Never Trump" Republican , told the crowd that Trump 's nomination as the Republican candidate "is breaking my heart for the party ."

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Richard Burr ? Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-S.C.)  said "we have not come to any final conclusions" about the Russia investigation on Oct. 4  but that they are still looking into the Mayflower meeting  former president Barack Obama's response to Russian hacking  the Intelligence Community Assessment and the drafting of the RNC's platform.  (Reuters)
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-S.C.)  said "we have not come to any final conclusions" about the Russia investigation on Oct. 4  but that they are still looking into the Mayflower meeting  former president Barack Obama's response to Russian hacking  the Intelligence Community Assessment and the drafting of the RNC's platform. (Reuters)
âThere is consensus among members and staff that we trust the conclusions of the ICA â Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.)  the committeeâs chairman  said at Wednesday news conference  referring to the intelligence communityâs assessment that Russia was behind hackings of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign director John Podestaâs email account and had attempted to exploit public opinion by sowing false information  much of it through fake social media accounts.
âBut we donât close our consideration of it â  he  added.
 Burr  also said that âthe issue of collusion is still openâ and would not be resolved until the committeeâs work was done.  He  said that a deadline for the committee was the looming start of the 2018 primary season.
âWeâve got to make our facts  as it related to Russiaâs involvement in our election  before the primaries getting started in 2018 â  Burr  said.
 Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-S.C.)  said that the committee's focus on FBI Director James Comey's firing has come to its "logical end as it relates to the Russia investigation " but that it is still looking into possible collusion on Oct. 4. (Reuters)
 Burr  and Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.)  the committeeâs vice chairman  said the committee has interviewed more than 100 people and reviewed more than 100 000 documents  many of them from the intelligence community  President Trumpâs inner circle and former members of the Obama administration. In some areas of the investigation   Burr  added  investigators had âexhausted every individualâ they could speak with in several areas of the probe â such as an April 2016 meeting at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.
 Burr  said the committee had interviewed seven people about that meeting and that âthe testimony of all seven were consistent.â
 He  said the committee had also âinterviewed every personâ that was involved in drafting the Republican campaign platform  suggesting that investigators had found no evidence of nefarious activity by Trump campaign officials in fashioning that platform to support a âstrong ally in Ukraine  but also leave the door open for better relations with Russia.â
 Burr  also told reporters that the committee had âhit a wallâ in attempting to verify the details of a salacious dossier about Trumpâs alleged exploits in Russia  mostly because its author  former British spy Christopher Steele  had rebuffed the committeeâs efforts to speak with him about his sources and about who paid for the compilation of the report.
âI can compel you to come â  Burr  said  as a warning to any potential witnesses who might not want to comply with the committeeâs investigation. But  Burr  later said that  he  had no such leverage over Steele  a British citizen  and could only threaten that the committeeâs report âwonât be flatteringâ as it relates to  him  if  he  refuses to cooperate.
The committee has also scheduled an additional 25 interviews for this month   Burr  added. Google executives  who have also been invited to testify publicly before the committee on Nov. 1  are expected to be among those asked to attend the closed-door interviews that have been scheduled in October.
 Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.)   left  and Vice Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-Va.)  hold a news conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
 Burr  added that the committee would not release the content of those ads  though  he  added that the committee would be âfineâ with any of the social media companies choosing to release the content of documents and other information they had turned over to the committee themselves.

SOLUTION:
Positive