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Portrait of Joe Lombardo, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
1.5×
the Republican governor rate of credit claiming

44% of 454 statements claim credit (200 statements); the average for Republican governors is 29%. Ranks 2nd of 22, where 1st is the highest rate.

An AI model reads each of Lombardo’s posts on X and marks whether it claims credit for an accomplishment. The rate is the share of statements marked; it is compared with the average among Republican governors and ranked against the same group.

At a glance

6 measures against Republican governors. 4.9% of Lombardo’s statements use bipartisan language, 1.8 times the Republican governor average of 2.7%. 0.4% of Lombardo’s statements use an extreme label, in the bottom quarter of Republican governors (average 1.7%).

The measures on which Lombardo sits furthest from the middle of Republican governors, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

Credit claiming

44%

Republican governors average 29% · ranks 2nd of 22

Bipartisanship

4.9%

Republican governors average 2.7% · ranks 4th of 22

Extreme labels

0.4%

Republican governors average 1.7% · ranks 18th of 22

CSIP ideology

+0.97

More conservative than 74% of Republican governors · ± 0.11

Policy criticism

5.9%

Republican governors average 4.4% · ranks 7th of 22

Personal attacks

1.3%

Republican governors average 0.9% · ranks 8th of 22

Peer group: Republican governors. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Lombardo, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Lombardo is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

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What Lombardo says

Lombardo stresses bipartisanship more than 81% of Republican governors. Bipartisanship in 4.9% of 454 statements, against 2.7% for the average Republican governor; 4th of 22.

An AI model reads each of Lombardo’s 454 statements in the current term (454 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 Republican governors and ranked among them.

Kinds of statement

Share of statements carrying each label, the current term

0%80%
Lombardo
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion232 statements
51%
40%
9th of 22
Credit claiming200 statements
44%
29%
2nd of 22
Policy criticism27 statements
6%
4%
7th of 22
Bipartisanship22 statements
5%
3%
4th of 22
Personal attacks6 statements
1%
1%
8th of 22
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Lombardo's share of statements in each category against the Republican governors average.
RowLombardoPeers
Policy discussion51%40%
Credit claiming44%29%
Policy criticism6%4%
Bipartisanship5%3%
Personal attacks1%1%
454

statements classified

454 posts on X.

posts on X: 454 (100.0%)posts on X 454
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Lombardo's statements by source
PartValue
posts on X454
How to read the bars

The thick bar is Lombardo; the thin grey bar is the average Republican governors. A longer thick bar means Lombardo does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.

Extreme labels

Lombardo used extreme labels in 0.4% of statements, 26% of the peer average. 2 statements, most often aimed at Aaron Ford; peers 1.7%.

  1. “extreme”1
  2. “woke”1

Who gets the labels

Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements

  1. Aaron Ford1
  2. California1
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 current term

Statements2025-01: 22025-02: 12025-03: 62025-04: 72025-05: 72025-06: 42025-07: 32025-08: 22025-09: 202025-10: 172025-11: 132025-12: 412026-01: 462026-02: 352026-03: 452026-04: 252026-05: 232026-06: 152026-07: 222026-08: 252026-09: 452026-10: 50peak 50 · Oct ’26Personal attackspeak 8.0% · Aug ’26 · latest 4.0%Personal attacks, 2025-01: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Personal attacks, 2025-02: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Personal attacks, 2025-03: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Personal attacks, 2025-04: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Personal attacks, 2025-05: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Personal attacks, 2025-06: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Personal attacks, 2025-07: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Personal attacks, 2025-08: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Personal attacks, 2025-09: 0.0% of 20Personal attacks, 2025-10: 0.0% of 17Personal attacks, 2025-11: 0.0% of 13Personal attacks, 2025-12: 0.0% of 41Personal attacks, 2026-01: 0.0% of 46Personal attacks, 2026-02: 0.0% of 35Personal attacks, 2026-03: 0.0% of 45Personal attacks, 2026-04: 0.0% of 25Personal attacks, 2026-05: 0.0% of 23Personal attacks, 2026-06: 0.0% of 15Personal attacks, 2026-07: 0.0% of 22Personal attacks, 2026-08: 8.0% of 25Personal attacks, 2026-09: 4.4% of 45Personal attacks, 2026-10: 4.0% of 50Policy criticismpeak 12.0% · Aug ’26 · latest 8.0%Policy criticism, 2025-01: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy criticism, 2025-02: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy criticism, 2025-03: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy criticism, 2025-04: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy criticism, 2025-05: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy criticism, 2025-06: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy criticism, 2025-07: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy criticism, 2025-08: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy criticism, 2025-09: 0.0% of 20Policy criticism, 2025-10: 5.9% of 17Policy criticism, 2025-11: 7.7% of 13Policy criticism, 2025-12: 2.4% of 41Policy criticism, 2026-01: 4.3% of 46Policy criticism, 2026-02: 2.9% of 35Policy criticism, 2026-03: 8.9% of 45Policy criticism, 2026-04: 8.0% of 25Policy criticism, 2026-05: 4.3% of 23Policy criticism, 2026-06: 0.0% of 15Policy criticism, 2026-07: 4.5% of 22Policy criticism, 2026-08: 12.0% of 25Policy criticism, 2026-09: 8.9% of 45Policy criticism, 2026-10: 8.0% of 50Policy discussionpeak 82.0% · Oct ’26 · latest 82.0%Policy discussion, 2025-01: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy discussion, 2025-02: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy discussion, 2025-03: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy discussion, 2025-04: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy discussion, 2025-05: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy discussion, 2025-06: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy discussion, 2025-07: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy discussion, 2025-08: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Policy discussion, 2025-09: 15.0% of 20Policy discussion, 2025-10: 64.7% of 17Policy discussion, 2025-11: 53.8% of 13Policy discussion, 2025-12: 53.7% of 41Policy discussion, 2026-01: 41.3% of 46Policy discussion, 2026-02: 48.6% of 35Policy discussion, 2026-03: 22.2% of 45Policy discussion, 2026-04: 64.0% of 25Policy discussion, 2026-05: 52.2% of 23Policy discussion, 2026-06: 40.0% of 15Policy discussion, 2026-07: 45.5% of 22Policy discussion, 2026-08: 60.0% of 25Policy discussion, 2026-09: 51.1% of 45Policy discussion, 2026-10: 82.0% of 50Bipartisanshippeak 19.5% · Dec ’25 · latest 6.0%Bipartisanship, 2025-01: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Bipartisanship, 2025-02: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Bipartisanship, 2025-03: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Bipartisanship, 2025-04: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Bipartisanship, 2025-05: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Bipartisanship, 2025-06: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Bipartisanship, 2025-07: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Bipartisanship, 2025-08: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Bipartisanship, 2025-09: 0.0% of 20Bipartisanship, 2025-10: 0.0% of 17Bipartisanship, 2025-11: 0.0% of 13Bipartisanship, 2025-12: 19.5% of 41Bipartisanship, 2026-01: 2.2% of 46Bipartisanship, 2026-02: 0.0% of 35Bipartisanship, 2026-03: 0.0% of 45Bipartisanship, 2026-04: 4.0% of 25Bipartisanship, 2026-05: 4.3% of 23Bipartisanship, 2026-06: 0.0% of 15Bipartisanship, 2026-07: 18.2% of 22Bipartisanship, 2026-08: 0.0% of 25Bipartisanship, 2026-09: 0.0% of 45Bipartisanship, 2026-10: 6.0% of 50Credit claimingpeak 61.5% · Nov ’25 · latest 40.0%Credit claiming, 2025-01: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Credit claiming, 2025-02: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Credit claiming, 2025-03: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Credit claiming, 2025-04: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Credit claiming, 2025-05: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Credit claiming, 2025-06: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Credit claiming, 2025-07: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Credit claiming, 2025-08: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Credit claiming, 2025-09: 50.0% of 20Credit claiming, 2025-10: 58.8% of 17Credit claiming, 2025-11: 61.5% of 13Credit claiming, 2025-12: 58.5% of 41Credit claiming, 2026-01: 45.6% of 46Credit claiming, 2026-02: 45.7% of 35Credit claiming, 2026-03: 28.9% of 45Credit claiming, 2026-04: 60.0% of 25Credit claiming, 2026-05: 60.9% of 23Credit claiming, 2026-06: 33.3% of 15Credit claiming, 2026-07: 40.9% of 22Credit claiming, 2026-08: 20.0% of 25Credit claiming, 2026-09: 28.9% of 45Credit claiming, 2026-10: 40.0% of 50Extreme labelspeak 2.2% · Mar ’26 · latest 0.0%Extreme labels, 2025-01: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Extreme labels, 2025-02: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Extreme labels, 2025-03: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Extreme labels, 2025-04: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Extreme labels, 2025-05: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Extreme labels, 2025-06: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Extreme labels, 2025-07: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Extreme labels, 2025-08: not plotted (fewer than 10 statements)Extreme labels, 2025-09: 0.0% of 20Extreme labels, 2025-10: 0.0% of 17Extreme labels, 2025-11: 0.0% of 13Extreme labels, 2025-12: 0.0% of 41Extreme labels, 2026-01: 0.0% of 46Extreme labels, 2026-02: 0.0% of 35Extreme labels, 2026-03: 2.2% of 45Extreme labels, 2026-04: 0.0% of 25Extreme labels, 2026-05: 0.0% of 23Extreme labels, 2026-06: 0.0% of 15Extreme labels, 2026-07: 0.0% of 22Extreme labels, 2026-08: 0.0% of 25Extreme labels, 2026-09: 2.2% of 45Extreme labels, 2026-10: 0.0% of 50Jan ’25Jul ’25Jan ’26Jul ’26Oct ’26
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Monthly rates for Lombardo, each row shaded against its own peak, with statement volume. Months with fewer than 10 statements are left blank.
ColumnStatementsPersonal attacksPolicy criticismPolicy discussionBipartisanshipCredit claimingExtreme labels
Jan ’252— (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 ’251— (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 ’256— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)
Apr ’257— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)
May ’257— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)
Jun ’254— (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 ’253— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)— (fewer than 10 statements)
Aug ’252— (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 ’25200.0%0.0%15.0%0.0%50.0%0.0%
Oct ’25170.0%5.9%64.7%0.0%58.8%0.0%
Nov ’25130.0%7.7%53.8%0.0%61.5%0.0%
Dec ’25410.0%2.4%53.7%19.5%58.5%0.0%
Jan ’26460.0%4.3%41.3%2.2%45.6%0.0%
Feb ’26350.0%2.9%48.6%0.0%45.7%0.0%
Mar ’26450.0%8.9%22.2%0.0%28.9%2.2%
Apr ’26250.0%8.0%64.0%4.0%60.0%0.0%
May ’26230.0%4.3%52.2%4.3%60.9%0.0%
Jun ’26150.0%0.0%40.0%0.0%33.3%0.0%
Jul ’26220.0%4.5%45.5%18.2%40.9%0.0%
Aug ’26258.0%12.0%60.0%0.0%20.0%0.0%
Sep ’26454.4%8.9%51.1%0.0%28.9%2.2%
Oct ’26504.0%8.0%82.0%6.0%40.0%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 current term, 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%. 8 months are hatched here.

In Lombardo’s words

Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned

Credit claiming

The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

Oct 26, 2026 · Posts on X (governors) · policy discussion; credit claiming; Health; Education; Emergency Management · Source

Bipartisanship

The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

Oct 26, 2026 · Posts on X (governors) · policy discussion; bipartisanship; Crime and Law Enforcement; Economics and Public Finance · Source

Extreme label

The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

Sep 29, 2026 · Posts on X (governors) · policy discussion; Labor and Employment; Crime and Law Enforcement; Taxation; extreme label “woke” aimed at Aaron Ford · Source

Examples by category

Up to five recent statements in each category

Category

Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.

  1. Posts on X (governors)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · policy discussion · credit claiming · Crime and Law Enforcement · target: Aaron FordSource

  2. Posts on X (governors)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · policy discussion · Taxation · Economics and Public Finance · target: Aaron FordSource

  3. Posts on X (governors)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · policy discussion · credit claiming · Taxation · Energy · Water Resources Development · target: Aaron FordSource

  4. Posts on X (governors)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · policy discussion · credit claiming · Taxation · Energy · Water Resources Development · target: Aaron FordSource

  5. Posts on X (governors)

    The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.

    personal attacks · target: Aaron FordSource

All 454 statements

Newest first, the current term

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: 454 posts on X.

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Policy

Education is what Lombardo talks about most: 25% of policy statements, above the peer share. Peers give it 18%.

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 Lombardo talks about. The bills Lombardo sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.

What Lombardo talks about

Share of policy statements by area, the current term

0%35%
Lombardo
Peers
Education59 statements
25%
18%
Economics and Public Finance55 statements
24%
19%
Crime and Law Enforcement44 statements
19%
11%
Government Operations and Politics30 statements
13%
12%
Commerce28 statements
12%
6%
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Policy areas Lombardo talks about, as a share of policy statements, against the Republican governors average.
RowLombardoPeers
Education25%18%
Economics and Public Finance24%19%
Crime and Law Enforcement19%11%
Government Operations and Politics13%12%
Commerce12%6%
How to read the bars

The thick bar is the share of Lombardo’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for Republican governors. 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 Republican governors averages.

Governors do not sponsor bills, so there is nothing to compare.

What agreement means, and what it doesn’t

Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Lombardo legislates on exactly the areas Lombardo 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 Lombardo sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.

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Ideology

Lombardo sits at +0.97 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 74% of Republican governors. Approximate range +0.85 to +1.08, which understates the uncertainty; from 1,752 donors and no 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”.

+0.97

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.85 to +1.08. From 1,752 donors and no roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Lombardo +1.0Republican governors +0.7Governors +0.4

The outlined dot is Lombardo, 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 Lombardo’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 Lombardo sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →Republican governorsmedian +0.7Lombardo +1.0Governorsmedian +0.4
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Lombardo's CSIP score of +0.97 placed against Republican governors, Governors.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Lombardo
Republican governors25+0.772%
Governors48+0.485%
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 Lombardo 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 Lombardo.

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Money

No campaign-finance data.No campaign-finance records are matched to this governor yet.

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Votes

No roll-call votes for the current term.Governors do not cast roll-call votes.

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Legislation

No bills for the current term.Governors do not sponsor bills.

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Online

The lab crawls Lombardo’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 Lombardo posts with a vision model.

Websites

No websites are tracked for this official.

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

Images Lombardo posted

No images from Lombardo’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.

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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 Lombardo is most unusual among Republican governors, 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
gov-NV-joe-lombardo
Governor id
NV-joe-lombardo

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.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • ImagesOct 28, 2026todayImages in members' tweets with vision-model descriptions.

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.

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