Position from 580 bills and votes and 21 statements, starting from a reputation prior of Left 26 — click any issue to see the reputation, the record and the shift.
Solo viewvs. Thompson · 2026vs. pick…
Sherman (you're viewing)
Overall
32
Left
LeftCenterRight
Federal budget, taxes and spending
28
Left
▸
Business, finance and labor
27
Left
▸
Trade and industrial policy
29
Left
▸
Foreign policy, trade and defense
27
Left
▸
Health care
34
Left
▸
Education
31
Left
▸
Immigration
38
Left
▸
Crime and justice
34
Left
▸
Guns
36
Left
▸
Civil rights, gender and religion
34
Left
▸
Elections, representation and accountability
31
Left
▸
Federal power and civil liberties
34
Left
▸
Energy, environment, land and agriculture
37
Left
▸
Housing, transportation, technology and vice
32
Left
▸
Track is neutral — only the dot's position and distance-from-center number carry meaning.
The FEC doesn't name donors who give under $200, so their gifts count in Raised but not Itemized.
Odds are a market close, not a poll
What They Care About
How this is measured
Bubble size = how much of Brad Sherman's sponsored bills, cosponsorships, campaign statements and tweets go to each domain. Votes are left out because they follow committee seats; domains a member's committees handle are discounted a little. Anything from the last 6 months counts double, so a topic they are on about right now grows. Darker = they have broken with their own party more often on that topic: the share of party-line votes since 2009 where they voted against their party's majority (gray = fewer than 8 such votes). Based on 7 sponsored, 296 cosponsored, 98 statements, 342 topical tweets. Click a bubble to open what they support and the bills and tweets behind it; click it again to close.
Sherman (you're viewing)
Larry ThompsonRepublican · challenger · Right 32 from statements6%