RT @BarackObama: My statement on the death of George Floyd: https://t.co/Hg1k9JHT6R
David Blount
@SenDavidBlount · MS · S
Posts10K
Engagement7.8M
Voting-record position-0.026
CoverageJan 1, 2020 to Nov 5, 2024
Voting-record position is available for 3,335 of 5,927 legislators. Missing values are shown, not hidden.
Voice fingerprint
Percentage-point difference between this legislator’s topic share and the party median. Bars left are under-indexed; bars right are over-indexed.
Most distinctive Uncategorized 8.7 pp above the party median
- Topics
- 22
- Over
- 11
- Under
- 11
Voice fingerprint. 14 topics shown on a symmetric scale from −8.7 pp to +8.7 pp. Most distinctive topic: Uncategorized, 8.7 pp above the party median.
Under-indexed Party median Over-indexed
- Uncategorized Over-indexed +8.7 pp
- Education Over-indexed +5.8 pp
- Civil Rights Under-indexed −5.7 pp
- Culture Over-indexed +4.0 pp
- Government Operations Under-indexed −3.8 pp
- Public Lands Over-indexed +3.4 pp
- Health Over-indexed +2.3 pp
- Macroeconomics Over-indexed +1.4 pp
- Environment Under-indexed −1.0 pp
- Transportation Over-indexed +0.9 pp
- Social Welfare Under-indexed −0.9 pp
- Labor Under-indexed −0.8 pp
- Housing Over-indexed +0.4 pp
- Energy Under-indexed −0.4 pp
Bars share a symmetric scale of ±8.7 pp. Showing 14 of 22 topics under the selected ordering.
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| Topic | Legislator share | Party median | Difference | Direction | Posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncategorized | 42.2% | 33.6% | +8.7 pp | Over-indexed | 4,226 |
| Education | 10.4% | 4.6% | +5.8 pp | Over-indexed | 1,041 |
| Civil Rights | 1.8% | 7.5% | −5.7 pp | Under-indexed | 178 |
| Culture | 5.4% | 1.4% | +4.0 pp | Over-indexed | 539 |
| Government Operations | 7.8% | 11.6% | −3.8 pp | Under-indexed | 784 |
| Public Lands | 4.3% | 0.9% | +3.4 pp | Over-indexed | 426 |
| Health | 9.0% | 6.7% | +2.3 pp | Over-indexed | 901 |
| Macroeconomics | 3.2% | 1.8% | +1.4 pp | Over-indexed | 320 |
| Environment | 0.4% | 1.4% | −1.0 pp | Under-indexed | 38 |
| Transportation | 2.2% | 1.3% | +0.9 pp | Over-indexed | 222 |
| Social Welfare | 3.2% | 4.1% | −0.9 pp | Under-indexed | 317 |
| Labor | 1.1% | 1.9% | −0.8 pp | Under-indexed | 110 |
| Housing | 2.7% | 2.3% | +0.4 pp | Over-indexed | 272 |
| Energy | 0.1% | 0.5% | −0.4 pp | Under-indexed | 11 |
| Agriculture | 0.1% | 0.4% | −0.3 pp | Under-indexed | 13 |
| Defense | 0.5% | 0.7% | −0.2 pp | Under-indexed | 51 |
| Banking, Finance, and Domestic Commerce | 0.6% | 0.4% | +0.2 pp | Over-indexed | 58 |
| Technology | 0.0% | 0.2% | −0.2 pp | Under-indexed | 5 |
| Law and Crime | 4.2% | 4.1% | +0.2 pp | Over-indexed | 423 |
| Immigration | 0.5% | 0.4% | +0.1 pp | Over-indexed | 49 |
| International Affairs | 0.3% | 0.4% | −0.1 pp | Under-indexed | 27 |
| Unclassified | 0.0% | 0.0% | −0.0 pp | Under-indexed | 0 |
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RT @BarackObama: Heres my statement on todays violence at the Capitol. https://t.co/jLCKo2D1Ya
RT @MittRomney: Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying t&
RT @cindymccain: My husband John lived by a code: country first. We are Republicans, yes, but Americans foremost. There's only one candidat&
RT @RepKatiePorter: I did the math: a full battery of coronavirus testing costs at minimum $1,331. I also did the legal research: the Admi&
RT @MartyOropeza: For the record this was the US Capitol during the BLM Protestors https://t.co/hyqneRtqMD
RT @JoeBiden: Count every vote.
RT @JoeBiden: No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protestors yesterday that they wouldnt have been treate&
RT @BarackObama: Juneteenth has never been a celebration of victory, or an acceptance of the way things are. It's a celebration of progress&
RT @BarackObama: It took several days to count every ballot in 2020, and it’s very likely we won’t know the outcome tonight either. So plea…