Jared Polis
FormerDemocrat · CO-2 · U.S. House
No longer in office — profile reflects their service in the 114th–119th Congresses (2015–present).
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Jared Polis's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Jared Polis (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Most and least aligned members
Treating Polis's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
