MLB Joins in Protest of Georgia's New Voting Law
We ran the numbers: There are 1705 news articles covering this topic. 38% (656) are left leaning, 34% (576) are center, and 28% (473) are right leaning.
Major League Baseball (MLB) moved its All-Star Game from Atlanta in protest of Georgia’s new voting law, which critics say is meant to suppress the Black vote. While left-leaning articles highlight that MLB is not an inherently liberal institution, right-leaning articles highlight that leftist activists are busy whipping up a national boycott of Georgia-based businesses.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that MLB is not an inherently liberal institution, so it came as a surprise that the league announced that it was moving this year’s All-Star Game out of Georgia. Nearly every other state has considered or is considering new restrictions on voting in the wake of Trump’s effort to claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
The Hill published a centrist article reporting that Republicans are rebuking MLB for moving its All-Star Game from Atlanta, as GOP lawmakers derided the move as an example of “cancel culture.” Lawmakers in Washington also panned MLB’s decision, with Senator Tom Cotton calling it “cowardly.”
A right-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that leftist activists are busy whipping up a national boycott of Georgia-based businesses. Georgia Democrats are trying to talk the mob down, as Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff said in a statement on Thursday that he opposes and rejects any notion of boycotting Georgia.