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 Bernie Sanders ? Corbyn is so far left , he makes Bernie look like a third way pro-business moderate . 
The typical winning Democratic playbook is one of triangulation and moderation , but the radicalism of the regional Republicans creates a national opportunity for progressive leaders like Senators Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders , both formerly derided as unviable .

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Hillary Clinton ? Former secretary of  state Hillary Clinton  speaks to and meets voters in Allendale  Mich.  on Nov. 7  2016. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
How do you write a primal scream? Because my head is about to explode over the story about alleged sexual harassment on  Hillary Clintonâs  2008 presidential campaign and  her  appallingly mild response  then and now.
To recap  while we were still reeling from the report that President Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III last summer  the New York Times posted this: âHillary Clinton Chose to Shield a Top Adviser Accused of Harassment in 2008.â
According to the Timesâ Maggie Haberman and Amy Chozick  Burns Strider   Clintonâs  faith adviser â yes  faith adviser  you canât make this stuff up â was accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a young woman with whom he shared a campaign office. The Times: â She  told a campaign official that Mr. Strider had rubbed  her  shoulders inappropriately  kissed  her  on the forehead and sent  her  a string of suggestive emails.â
The campaignâs response? Campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle recommended that Strider be fired. So did Jess OâConnell  the national director of operations  who handled the investigation. And  Clinton  herself? Not so much  apparently. The young woman  not identified in the story  was moved to a different job. Strider â then married  by the way â was âdocked several weeks of pay and ordered to undergo counseling.â Which  predictably  he never attended.
And  even more predictably  when he was hired years later to oversee an independent group backing  Clintonâs  second presidential campaign  âHe was fired after several months for workplace issues  including allegations that he harassed a young female aide  according to three people close to Correct the Recordâs management.â
This is head-exploding stuff  but thereâs worse to come. Because now â now  after Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo and Roy Moore â this was Hillary Clintonâs belated response  in its bland totality: âA story appeared today about something that happened in 2008. I was dismayed when it occurred  but was heartened the young woman came forward  was heard  and had her concerns taken seriously and addressed.â
And classically  infuriatingly  this episode and its aftermath exposes  once again  the trademark Clinton failure to take personal responsibility; the allergy to owning up to error; the refusal to cede any ground  no less apologize; the incessant double-standarding  with different  more forgiving rules for the Clintons and their loyalists. Imagine a Hillary Clinton who said something like this:
Imagine that Hillary Clinton. She doesnât exist.

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Hillary Clinton ? The trend to this point gives a distinct edge to the Democrats. While roughly the same number of lawmakers in both parties are leaving their seats to run for higher office  just nine House Democrats are retiring outright or have already resigned  compared with 24 Republicans. (House members running for other offices often count as retirements  because itâs usually impractical or illegal to run for multiple positions at the same time.) Including those members who are leaving to run for another office  there will be 17 open House seats vacated by Democrats and 35 for Republicans. Democratic victories last November in gubernatorial and state legislative races in Virginia and New Jersey could spur more retirements among Republicans worried about the national political environment under Trump. And although Democrats must defend far more Senate seats than Republicans in 2018âincluding several in states that Donald Trump wonâall of the partyâs incumbents are currently running for reelection. The retirements of Corker and Flake  along with a Democratic victory in Decemberâs special election in Alabama  give Democrats an outside chance at retaking the Senate majority. In the House  theyâll need to pick up 24 seats  and the more Republicans retire in districts that  Hillary Clinton  carried last year  the more the GOP majority is at risk. Data sources: Each districtâs presidential-election results are from the Daily Kos. House and Senate election results are from the Associated Press.
2012 Senate election: +3.9 Flake He decided to leave after a single term rather than wage what would have been a brutal fight for reelection  first in a primary against a hard-right Trump backer  Kelli Ward  and then  if he won  against a centrist Democrat  Representative Kyrsten Sinema  in the general election. Flake had lost his base in Arizona: His criticism of Trump in his recent book  Conscience of a Conservative  alienated the presidentâs GOP backers  while his conservative voting record put off Democrats. Orrin Hatch  Utah 2016 presidential election: +17.9 Trump over Hillary Clinton; +23.8 Trump over Evan McMullin
2014 Senate election: +10.24 Franken Under pressure from fellow Democrats  Franken announced in December he would resign âin the coming weeksâ after multiple women came forward to accuse him of inappropriate sexual behavior. Most of the allegations involved Franken groping women while taking a photo. His resignation means there will be a special Senate election in 2018 in a state that Hillary Clinton barely carried in 2016. House Republicans Retiring Outright Steve Helber / AP Bob Goodlatte  Virginia 6th district 2016 presidential election: +24.8 Trump
2016 House election: +0.52 Issa Issa in January became one of the most recognizable House Republicans to announce his retirement. A former chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee  he served as the chief congressional inquisitor of the Obama administration for several years. Issa is annually ranked as one of the wealthiest members of Congress  having co-founded the company behind the Viper car alarm (for which he famously provided the voice). But he was in for the fight of his life to win reelection after nearly losing in 2016 in a district that  Hillary Clinton  carried over Donald Trump.

SOLUTION:
Neutral