Who runs this

This tracker is built and maintained by Andrew Willems as a personal hobby project. It has no funding and is not affiliated with any campaign, party, employer or advocacy group.

I'm a registered Democrat and my views usually line up with progressive policy. I'm telling you that so you can weigh my work with it in mind. It's also why the tracker is built so you don't have to take my word for anything:

• Both parties are judged by the same written rules, and the governors and senators were chosen by a rule set before any rating.
• Every quote links to a saved copy of its source, and every rating lists its evidence.
• No rating is published unless two reviewers agree, or a third settles the disagreement with a written reason.
• Who rates which promise is set by a public random draw, not by me.
• All data, including disagreements, is public, and anyone can ask for a review.

I don't have a final say over ratings. If I rate promises, I'm one of two reviewers like anyone else, and I can't settle a disagreement I was part of. Every change goes through a public pull request and automatic checks that apply to me as well: ratings can't be edited or deleted, the frozen promise list can't change without a logged correction, and the site won't build if any of these rules is broken.

If you think a rating reflects my politics rather than the evidence, please open a review request. Those are the reports I most want to get.

Become a reviewer

Promises are rated by volunteer reviewers, two per promise, working alone. The reviewer guide explains how it works.

The code and data

Everything behind this site is public on GitHub: the code, every promise, every rating and every change ever made.