I started making formal political endorsements on this website in 2004, just four years after I turned eighteen and gained the right to vote. In the twenty years since, I have evaluated 267 candidates for 113 offices at the federal, state, and local levels (an average of 2.36 candidates-per-office) and 72 state and local ballot issues.
Every once in a while I go back and take a look at my endorsement statistics to see if I can discern any patterns, trends, or other interesting tidbits. I went through this exercise to analyze endorsements from 2004 through 2010, 2012, 2015, and 2021. I’m doing it again today to cover endorsements through 2024. As you can see, I’ve been pretty ‘irregular’ about this. My intention is to start doing this exercise on a four-year schedule (that is, after each presidential election).
If you are not interested in my political views, or pie charts, you should probably just skip this post!