ratemypolitician is an independent, non-partisan accuracy index. We do not editorialize, endorse, or recommend candidates. We do one thing: take public statements politicians actually made and check whether they're true.
Every statement is evaluated independently by 7 frontier language models from different labs. Each model is given identical inputs: the verbatim quote, full context, the date and venue. Each returns a verdict and a written justification.
The final Truth Index is the equal-weighted aggregate of the council's verdicts, scaled 0-100 and rounded to the nearest integer. Verdict bands are fixed and apply uniformly:
Statements are extracted from news coverage by an LLM and linked back to the original article. Each council member sees the verbatim quote and the article context, and is instructed to weigh primary sources over secondary reporting wherever its training allows.
When models disagree, we publish the disagreement. Every fact-check page lists each model's individual verdict and reasoning. Agreement is reported as a 0-1 ratio. We do not suppress outliers or hide model identities.
This is not a measure of a politician's character, competence, voting record, or policy quality. It only measures the empirical accuracy of statements they have personally made in public. A high score means they tell the truth often; it does not mean their policies are good. A low score means the opposite of the first sentence; it does not mean their policies are bad. Read the receipts and decide for yourself.
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