§ 01Start here
§ 02What this is
Most ways of judging a politician ask whose side are they on. This one asks a different question: does their documented conduct meet the standard the seat requires? Not person, not party, not gender, not ideology, not identity. Behavior, conduct, and character, measured the same way for every Republican, Democrat, and Independent. Policy is never scored, in either direction.
§ 03The Three Operating Principles
§ 04What the standard demands
| Truth over tribe | Telling the truth when it hurts their own side, not only when it hurts the other side. |
| Opponents treated as citizens | Every voter is a fellow citizen, including the half that did not vote for them. |
| Symmetric standards | The same rule applied to allies and opponents; no carve-outs for friends, no harshness for enemies. |
| Office held in trust | Not converted into a vehicle for personal, family, or party financial enrichment. |
| Constitutional fidelity | Respect for elections, rule of law, and institutional norms, including when one’s own side loses. |
| Private conduct matches public | No hot-mic contempt for the people they represent; the off-camera person is the on-camera person. |
| Knowledge of the work | Substantive depth on the policy they speak on; no confident claims on what they have not mastered. |
| Restraint with state power | Never weaponized against opposition, never to shield family from justice, never for enrichment. |
§ 05How to read the scores
Fourteen measures (M01 to M14), each scored 0 to 10 against documented historical anchors from both parties. The composite is the weighted average; the duties the oath ranks highest carry the most weight, so a strong floor speech cannot rescue a constitutional failure. It renders as a character credit score from 300 to 850. Support requires a 700, roughly a composite of 6.9, a ceiling almost no one reaches; the standard is the seat, not the curve. A third, independent layer, the severity flags, can foreclose support for documented criterion-class conduct (force, election subversion, self-enrichment, enemy-making) no matter how the number lands.
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§ 06Featured dossiers
Anchor records from across the range, those who held the seat at its standard and those who used it for something else. Same fourteen measures, same bar, every grade pulled live from the record. Open any card for the full per-measure scorecard with primary-source citations.
§ 07Browse the full record
810 officials documented and 640 graded against the oath, every sitting member of Congress, every current governor, and the President, Vice President, and Cabinet. Every dossier has its own URL and is built to be shared, a voter can pull up one name, or read the whole board. The methodology is the legitimacy.