Outrage after Susan Collins tries to 'feel' her way out of Kavanaugh question: 'Pathetic'

Raw Story is an established digital news outlet with author attribution, but its framing and story selection reflect a pronounced political perspective. The short report relies heavily on critical social-media reactions and offers limited independent reporting.

• ▸Source type — An established online news publisher, though politically partisan in its coverage.
• ▸Author attribution — The article names Robert Davis as its author.
• ▸Transparency — The story identifies the debate and attributes the quoted reactions, but provides little additional reporting context.

The article quotes Collins and identifies the debate question, then presents several attributed social-media reactions. It offers little independent verification or context and no response from Collins or her campaign to the criticism.

Collins's answer is quoted, but the article's reaction coverage is entirely critical and includes no supportive perspective or further response from Collins.

• ▸Counterarguments presented — No defense of Collins's answer or alternative interpretation is included.
• ▸Source diversity — The reactions come from several social-media posters but all point in the same critical direction.
• ▸Opinion vs reporting — The article reports the answer and reactions, while the headline adopts a critical framing.

The headline characterizes Collins's answer negatively, and the article selects critical reactions without presenting supportive reactions or broader debate context.

• ▸Source selection — The quoted social-media responses all criticize Collins or her answer.
• ▸Headline — Describes Collins as trying to 'feel' her way out of the question and calls the answer 'Pathetic.'
• ▸Framing — The story centers the backlash rather than exploring competing interpretations of her response.