Credit claiming
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6.4%
of roll calls missed, attendance in the bottom tenth of the West Virginia Senate
Attendance 93.6%; the average within the West Virginia Senate is 97.9%. Ranks 33rd of 34, where 1st has the highest attendance. 799 roll calls in the WV 2025–26 session.
Attendance is the share of the roll calls Chapman could vote on where a yea, nay or present was recorded, ranked within the West Virginia Senate. A missed vote has many causes, from illness to campaigning; the number says how often, not why.
At a glance
6 measures against State Senate Republicans. 77% of Chapman’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from West Virginia, in the bottom quarter of State Senate Republicans. 11% of the 139 bills Chapman sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom quarter of the West Virginia Senate.
The measures on which Chapman sits furthest from the middle of State Senate Republicans, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Attendance
93.6%
West Virginia Senate average 97.9% · ranks 33rd of 34 · 799 roll calls
From West Virginia, 2026
77%
Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 717th of 860 State Senate Republicans
Out of committee
11%
West Virginia Senate average 26% · ranks 29th of 34
Credit claiming
27%
State Senate Republicans average 15% · ranks 61st of 354
Personal attacks
0%
State Senate Republicans average 2.3% · ranks 272nd of 354
CSIP ideology
+0.43
Right of 0, the centre of the scale · ± 0.05
Peer group: State Senate Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Chapman, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Chapman is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Chapman says
Chapman attacks opponents personally less than 76% of State Senate Republicans. Personal attacks in 0% of 381 statements, against 2.3% for the average State Senate Republican; 272nd of 354.
An AI model reads each of Chapman’s 381 statements in the WV 2025–26 session (381 posts on X) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for State Senate Republicans and ranked among them.
Kinds of statement
Share of statements carrying each label, the WV 2025–26 session
0%80%
Chapman
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion164 statements
43%
37%
144th of 354
Credit claiming103 statements
27%
15%
61st of 354
Policy criticism17 statements
4%
9%
210th of 354
Bipartisanship4 statements
1%
2%
206th of 354
Personal attacks0 statements
0%
2%
272nd of 354
Show the data
| Row | Chapman | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 43% | 37% |
| Credit claiming | 27% | 15% |
| Policy criticism | 4% | 9% |
| Bipartisanship | 1% | 2% |
| Personal attacks | 0% | 2% |
381
statements classified
381 posts on X.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 381 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is Chapman; the thin grey bar is the average State Senate Republicans. A longer thick bar means Chapman does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Chapman used no extreme labels in 381 statements. The peer average is 1.3%.
No extreme labels in this window.
Who gets the labels
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
No targets recorded.
What an extreme label is
Calls a politician, a party or a policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who or what the label was aimed at. The lists show the five most used labels and targets; the toggle shows the rest.
Month by month
Share of statements per month, the WV 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 5 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Feb ’25 | 8 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Mar ’25 | 16 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 62.5% | 0.0% | 50.0% | 0.0% |
| Apr ’25 | 15 | 0.0% | 13.3% | 66.7% | 6.7% | 40.0% | 0.0% |
| May ’25 | 10 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 50.0% | 0.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% |
| Jun ’25 | 15 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 40.0% | 0.0% | 40.0% | 0.0% |
| Jul ’25 | 14 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 42.9% | 0.0% | 7.1% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’25 | 15 | 0.0% | 6.7% | 40.0% | 0.0% | 33.3% | 0.0% |
| Sep ’25 | 16 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 37.5% | 0.0% | 37.5% | 0.0% |
| Oct ’25 | 16 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 25.0% | 0.0% | 18.8% | 0.0% |
| Nov ’25 | 14 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 21.4% | 0.0% | 21.4% | 0.0% |
| Dec ’25 | 18 | 0.0% | 5.6% | 61.1% | 0.0% | 33.3% | 0.0% |
| Jan ’26 | 18 | 0.0% | 5.6% | 72.2% | 0.0% | 50.0% | 0.0% |
| Feb ’26 | 21 | 0.0% | 14.3% | 76.2% | 4.8% | 38.1% | 0.0% |
| Mar ’26 | 16 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 25.0% | 0.0% | 31.3% | 0.0% |
| Apr ’26 | 29 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 62.1% | 0.0% | 27.6% | 0.0% |
| May ’26 | 35 | 0.0% | 5.7% | 31.4% | 2.9% | 25.7% | 0.0% |
| Jun ’26 | 8 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jul ’26 | 10 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 10.0% | 0.0% | 10.0% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’26 | 7 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Sep ’26 | 31 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 32.3% | 0.0% | 16.1% | 0.0% |
| Oct ’26 | 44 | 0.0% | 9.1% | 40.9% | 0.0% | 18.2% | 0.0% |
How to read the strips
Each row is one kind of statement; each cell is a month, shaded against that row’s own peak (darker = closer to the peak), with the peak and the latest value written at the right. The top row counts statements. The strip covers every month of the WV 2025–26 session, the same span as the rates above, including months with no statements. A month with fewer than 10 statements is hatched, not shaded: one or two posts would swing its rate to 0% or 100%. 4 months are hatched here.
In Chapman’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Bipartisanship
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
May 14, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · bipartisanship · Source
Policy criticism
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Oct 20, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy criticism; policy discussion; Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues; Education · Source
Examples by category
Up to five recent statements in each category
Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.
No statements in this category in this window.
All 381 statements
Newest first, the WV 2025–26 session
The full feed
Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 381 posts on X.
Policy
Health is what Chapman talks about most: 21% of policy statements, 2.4 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.58 on a 0–1 scale (State Senate Republicans average 0.52; 74th of 226).
Each policy statement is tagged by the AI model with one or more of 25 policy areas from the Congressional Research Service list, so the shares say what Chapman talks about. The bills Chapman sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Chapman talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the WV 2025–26 session
0%35%
Chapman
Peers
Health35 statements
21%
9%
Education30 statements
18%
14%
Families20 statements
12%
4%
Transportation and Public Works20 statements
12%
6%
Energy17 statements
10%
6%
Show the data
| Row | Chapman | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Health | 21% | 9% |
| Education | 18% | 14% |
| Families | 12% | 4% |
| Transportation and Public Works | 12% | 6% |
| Energy | 10% | 6% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Chapman’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State Senate Republicans. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
Talks about · legislates on
Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 35%. Grey ticks are the State Senate Republicans averages.
Show the data
| Area | Talks about | State Senate Republicans, talks about | Legislates on | State Senate Republicans, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 21% | 9% | 29% | 11% |
| Education | 18% | 14% | 5% | 10% |
| Families | 12% | 4% | 14% | 2% |
| Transportation and Public Works | 12% | 6% | 1% | 6% |
| Energy | 10% | 6% | 3% | 3% |
0.58
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State Senate Republicans average 0.52. Ranks 74th of 226.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Chapman legislates on exactly the areas Chapman talks about, in the same proportions; 0 means no overlap. It does not say whether the bills match the positions in the statements, only the subjects. Bills Chapman sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
Chapman sits at +0.43 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 61% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.38 to +0.48, which understates the uncertainty; from 178 donors and 394 roll calls.
CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.
+0.43
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.38 to +0.48. From 178 donors and 394 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Chapman, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Chapman’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.
What this means, and what it doesn’t
The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.
Where Chapman sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
State Senate Republicans1,083 · median +0.4
West Virginia Senate34 · median +0.3
All State Senate1,909 · median +0.1
Show the data
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Chapman |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Senate Republicans | 1083 | +0.4 | 61% |
| West Virginia Senate | 34 | +0.3 | 65% |
| All State Senate | 1909 | +0.1 | 78% |
How to read the strips
Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Chapman in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Chapman.
Money
Chapman reported $142.9K in the 2026 cycle, 3.1 times the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total. 77% of itemized individual money came from West Virginia.
Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.
$142.9K
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 119 itemized donors. State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K.
Where the money came from
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.
- Individuals (itemized)80 squares$114.5K
- PACs and other committees20 squares$27.9K
- Party committees$500
Show the data
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $114.5K | 80.2% |
| PACs and other committees | $27.9K | 19.5% |
| Party committees | $500 | 0.3% |
What this means, and what it doesn’t
Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.
Receipts by cycle
Itemized contributions, 2022 to 2026. The grey line is the State Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.
Show the data
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2022 cycle | $61.4K |
| 2024 cycle | $850 |
| 2026 cycle | $142.9K |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 77% came from West Virginia.
- West Virginia$88.7K
- Ohio$8,400
- Texas$2,800
- Indiana$2,800
- Pennsylvania$2,000
Small donations
State filings report no total for small gifts.
Not reported in state filings.
Where itemized donors live
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
Show the data
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| West Virginia | $88.7K |
| Ohio | $8,400 |
| Indiana | $2,800 |
| Texas | $2,800 |
| Pennsylvania | $2,000 |
| Florida | $1,100 |
| Mississippi | $1,000 |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| New Hampshire | No data |
| Washington | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
| Minnesota | No data |
| Illinois | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Michigan | No data |
| New York | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Massachusetts | No data |
| Oregon | No data |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| New Jersey | No data |
| Connecticut | No data |
| California | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| Colorado | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| Kentucky | No data |
| Virginia | No data |
| Maryland | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| Arizona | No data |
| New Mexico | No data |
| Kansas | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Tennessee | No data |
| North Carolina | No data |
| South Carolina | No data |
| District of Columbia | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Georgia | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
119
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
77%
from West Virginia
Of itemized individual dollars
How to read the map
Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is West Virginia. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- ATTORNEY/LEGAL$48.2K 39 donors
- RETIRED$16.3K 7 donors
- MINING/ENERGY$12.4K 7 donors
- BUSINESS OWNER$11.6K 6 donors
- HEALTHCARE/MEDICAL$6,363 8 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- WEST VIRGINIA TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION (LAWPAC)$5,600
- BLUE AND GOLD PAC$2,800
- CARTER, DONALD JR.$2,800
- COMCAST CORPORATION AND NBC UNIVERSAL PAC$2,800
- GREATER WV CARPENTERS PEC$2,800
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- ACNR$8,400 3 donors
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Chapman voted with the majority of West Virginia Senate Republicans on 89% of party-line votes and missed 6.4% of 799 roll calls. West Virginia Senate on average: 88% party unity, 97.9% attendance. Across all roll calls, Chapman voted against the majority of West Virginia Senate Republicans 29 times.
799 roll calls Chapman could vote on in the WV 2025–26 session, compared with West Virginia Senate. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Chapman voted with the majority of West Virginia Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
29
votes against the majority of West Virginia Senate Republicans
Party unity 89%, West Virginia Senate average 88%, ranks 21st of 34. 799 roll calls in the WV 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Chapman, the thin grey bar the West Virginia Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
80%100%
Chapman
Peers
Rank
Attendance
93.6%
97.9%
33rd of 34
Party unity
89%
88%
21st of 34
Show the data
| Row | Chapman | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 93.6% | 97.9% |
| Party unity | 89% | 88% |
What this means, and what it doesn’t
A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.
Key votes
25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the WV 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 2–0 · R 31–1Democrats 2 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 31 yea, 1 nay | became law | |
| Mar 14, 2026 | HB 5277 Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Health Facilities-Welch Community Hospital, William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital, and Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital from the Unappropriated Surplus Balance Passage | Yea | With majority | pass | D 2–0 · R 32–0Democrats 2 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 32 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| Mar 14, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 2–0 · R 32–0Democrats 2 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 32 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Mar 14, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 2–0 · R 32–0Democrats 2 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 32 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Mar 14, 2026 | HB 5288 Supplemental Appropriation to the Department of Agriculture-West Virginia Spay Neuter Assistance Fund from Special Revenue Passage | Yea | With majority | pass | D 2–0 · R 32–0Democrats 2 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 32 yea, 0 nay | became law |
How key votes are chosen
Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.
Votes most often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Chapman most often
- Patricia RuckerR747 shared votes97%
- Jay TaylorR744 shared votes97%
- Chris RoseR729 shared votes96%
- Jason BarrettR726 shared votes96%
- Brian HeltonR721 shared votes96%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Chapman least often
- Joey GarciaD748 shared votes87%
- Mike WoelfelD709 shared votes89%
- Ryan WeldR747 shared votes92%
- Eric TarrR734 shared votes92%
- Craig HartR680 shared votes93%
How to read the agreement lists
The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.
Full voting record
WV 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Chapman sponsored 139 bills in the WV 2025–26 session; 8 became law. Cosponsored 68 others. 11% of sponsored bills got out of committee (West Virginia Senate average 26%; 29th of 34).
The bills Chapman sponsored and cosponsored in the WV 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.
Bills by stage
Counts for the WV 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 139 | 121 | 15 | 9 | 8 |
| Cosponsored | 68 | 50 | 15 | 6 | 4 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Chapman sponsored, ochre blocks bills Chapman cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
11%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
West Virginia Senate average 26%. Ranks 29th of 34.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Chapman, by number of shared bills in the WV 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Chris Rose46
- Patricia Rucker35
- Vince Deeds22
- Darren Thorne21
- Tom Willis21
What this means, and what it doesn’t
The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Chapman’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| SR 67 | Recognizing dedicated public service of Honorable Michael Andrew Woelfel | Cosponsor | Mar 14, 2026 | Introduced | Unassigned | Completed legislative action Mar 14, 2026 |
| SR 68 | Recognizing dedicated public service of Honorable Charles Houston Clements | Cosponsor | Mar 14, 2026 | Introduced | Unassigned | Completed legislative action Mar 14, 2026 |
| SR 63 | Designating March 13, 2026, as Veterans Visibility Day | Cosponsor | Mar 12, 2026 | Introduced | Unassigned | Completed legislative action Mar 13, 2026 |
| SR 58 | Designating March 6, 2026, as Girl Scouts Day | Sponsor | Mar 5, 2026 | Introduced | Unassigned | Completed legislative action Mar 6, 2026 |
| SR 52 | Designating February 27, 2026, as West Liberty University Day | Cosponsor | Feb 26, 2026 | Introduced | Unassigned | Completed legislative action Feb 27, 2026 |
Online
A site that has not changed in 90 days. Chapman’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Chapman’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Chapman posts with a vision model.
Websites
Official site
www.wvlegislature.gov/Senate1/lawmaker.cfm?member=Senator%20ChapmanLast crawled Oct 1, 2026
1pages crawled
0changes in 90 days
- 1
pages crawled
1changes in 90 days
How to read the counts
“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.
Social accounts
- Xlauraforwv
- Facebookwww.facebook.com/LauraforWV/
- Facebookwww.facebook.com/jlwchapman
- Instagramwww.instagram.com/lauraforwv/
- Emaillaura.chapman@wvsenate.gov
Images Chapman posted
No images from Chapman’s posts have been described.
About the descriptions
Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
State floor speeches
No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.
Floor speeches
Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.
Methods and sources
How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.
The headline
The headline is the measure on which Chapman is most unusual among State Senate Republicans, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.
The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.
A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).
Identifiers
- Profile id
- 599fd572-0475-4215-8d43-1474237f5a78
- Open States
- ocd-person/599fd572-0475-4215-8d43-1474237f5a78
Bulk files with the same data for every official:
Freshness of this profile’s data
- What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
- Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
- Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
- Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
- Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
- WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
- State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.
How the measures work
- What politicians say
- Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
- Extreme labels
- A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
- Policy areas and agreement
- Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
- Ideology (CSIP)
- Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
- Campaign money
- Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
- Votes and key votes
- Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
- Peers and ranks
- Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.
America’s Political Pulse · Polarization Research Lab