Click on the more attractive politician:
- What is this?
- This site determines the most attractive members of the 111th United States Congress.
- Who made it?
- Hello. I'm Tom Scott. I live at tomscott.com, and you can email me or follow me on Twitter.
The idea came from Rob Manuel via Elect or Not, which did a similar thing for the UK. - How up to date is it?
- Data about the 111th Congress is from Freebase and licensed under CC-BY. Images are in the public domain. The last update was in late June 2010. The stats page here is updated every minute.
- How accurate is it?
- Not very. Treat the results with several grains of salt. The photos are chosen automatically — the largest public domain photo on Freebase is used — so some Congressfolks may be getting a raw deal. If you feel that's the case, add a suitable picture to Freebase and it'll get pulled in during the next update! Also, if someone's really tried to stuff the ballot box, they'll probably succeed; I'm trying to keep an eye on that, though. The Democrats vs Republicans stat only counts battles between the two parties, though, so there isn't a disadvantage for the party with most politicians in power.
- I have another question!
- Email me. I'm friendly. Oh, and I thought I should mention that I'm looking for work doing web, video and viral stuff. Just in case.
