Center Field Politics is a non-partisan, informational project. It presents data about elected officials and candidates as simplified “baseball cards.” We work to be accurate and transparent, but the information here is provided for general education and civic context only and should not be relied on as the sole basis for any decision.
Accuracy depends on third-party sources
The accuracy and completeness of what you see depends on the data we collect from external sources, including the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Congress.gov, GovTrack, state ethics and election agencies, Ballotpedia, and news organizations. Those sources can be incomplete, delayed, or themselves in error, and data can become out of date between refreshes. Each card shows when its data was last updated and a confidence level; please treat older or lower-confidence data accordingly and verify anything important against the primary source linked in the citations.
Metrics are a simplified visualization, not a verdict
The baseball statistics (promise fulfillment, achievements, reliability, controversies, funding, etc.) are a simplified way of presenting underlying public data, not a complete or official measure of any person’s record or character. Ideology placements and the baseball metrics are interpretive editorial judgments derived from the sources cited. Where a figure is a proxy or an estimate, we label it as such. See the methodology for formulas, source tiers, and confidence rules.
Media-bias labels are editorial classifications
Where news sources are labeled left, center, or right, those labels are editorial classifications informed by third-party media-bias raters (such as AllSides and Ad Fontes Media). They describe a source’s general orientation as assessed by those raters and by our editorial review; they are opinions, not statements of fact, and reasonable people and other raters may disagree.
Statements about people
Statements attributed to political opponents (for example, in the “opposition viewpoints” sections) are contested claims raised by those opponents for competitive advantage — they are not verified findings or the conclusions of Center Field Politics. Descriptions of documented legal or ethics matters reflect the public record as reported by the cited sources. If you believe any statement about an official or candidate is inaccurate, please tell us through the corrections process and we will review it promptly.
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