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Neither party has a monopoly on extremism. Both parties harbor decent and reasonable collaborators who seek consensus-solutions for our common interests. America's wide range of ideological beliefs is our strength, but only to the extent we actually listen to each other, build consensus, and find solutions in our common interests.
88% of Americans believe leaders of different parties finding compromises together can help lower political division. But it has been objectively difficult to know who such effective political leaders are. Until now.
Bridge Grades for Congress objectively identifies the most collaborative and least polarizing politicians by sorting bridgers from dividers based on voting records, bill authoring, and other public 3rd party data.
Bridgers put common interests ahead of party. Bridgers seek win-win solutions for a coalition of interests.
Dividers put party ahead of common interests. Dividers choose win-lose battles and play the zero-sum game.
Bridge Grade is like Rotten Tomatoes for politicians.
Bridge Grade is a data-oriented, transparent, independently governed sorting mechanism that scores politicians on their ability to bridge America. Bridge Grade is a non-ideological grading system for politicians.
Using 3rd party data, we grade politicians on their abilities to collaborate, build coalitions, and deliver consensus solutions for the common interests of multiple parties.
In aggregating data from multiple non-partisan 3rd party sources, Bridge Grade measures not “what” a politician believes, but rather “how” the politician behaves - including bill authoring, bill sponsorship, voting records, public statements, and ultimately their effectiveness in delivering pragmatic bi-partisan legislative solutions.
Bridge Grade is deliberately non-ideological. Bridge Grade does NOT consider ideology, nor does it reward centrists. We believe that a wide range of ideological thought makes us strong, but only to the extent our leaders can sit with, listen to, and collaborate with those with opposing views.
Society gives restaurants sanitation grades to help diners make good choices and avoid getting sick. Bridge Grades are sanitation grades for politicians.
As and Bs are bridgers. Cs and Fs are dividers.