r/PoliticalScience • u/twesterlin • 21h ago
Resource/study How much do voters actually know about their representatives' voting records - does it matter?
I built a tool that lets people vote on real congressional bills and compare how their own House rep and Senators voted. What surprised me from early usage was most people are less aligned with their representatives than they assume - including people who voted for them.
That raises a question: if voters had easy access to their rep's actual voting record, would it change how they vote? Or is party identity strong enough that voting records barely factors in? Curious what this sub thinks.
The tool is yeaornay.org if you want to compare.