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Pick a politician on the left; the right fills in with their opponent — swap it for anyone. We compare their record and what they've declared, never their party.
Politician
DemocratAdam Smith
U.S. Representative · Washington · Democrat
Compared with
RepublicanDouglas Michael Basler
Unknown Office · Washington · Republican
- Office
- U.S. Representative
- District
- Washington's 9th district
- State
- Washington
+83 · Keeps far more than breaks
Promise scorecard · 5 tracked, 5 rated
- Fully Kept2
- Championed3
- Partial0
- Attempted0
- No opportunity0
- Ignored0
- Abstained0
- Misaligned0
- Hostile0
Recent promises
- Fully KeptHealth Care
“Co-sponsor the State-Based Universal Health Care Act to let states establish their own universal/single-payer health care systems by streamlining federal waivers and funding.”
- ChampionedGovernment Ethics / Accountability
“Ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks — co-sponsor the Ban Conflicted Trading Act (H.R.1579) and support the Restore Trust in Congress Act to prohibit sitting lawmakers from trading stocks.”
Integrity Score: signed average of per-rating credit × 100, weighted by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is reported separately from popularity. Methodology is open.
- Office
- Unknown Office
- District
- Washington
- State
- Washington
Promise scorecard · 0 tracked
No promises have been rated yet. Lifecycle promises (in progress, not yet rated) are not scored.
Integrity Score: signed average of per-rating credit × 100, weighted by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is reported separately from popularity. Methodology is open.
By the record
Sourced Layer-1 facts — what each official has actually done in office. Neutral: figures stand on their own, never scored against each other.
| Adam Smith | Douglas Michael Basler | |
|---|---|---|
| Roll-call votes cast | 609 | — |
| Voted Yea / Nay | 256 / 335 | — |
| Votes against own party | 1% | — |
| Bills sponsored (118th–119th) | 38 | — |
| Of those, became law | 0 | — |
| Raised (latest cycle) | $740K | — |
Sources: Voteview (votes), Congress.gov (bills), FEC (finance). Independence = share of party-line votes cast against the member’s own party majority.
Where they stand — declared issues
Issues where both have a stated position or a tracked promise, shown side by side. These are their own claims — judged separately from whether they kept them.
No shared declared issues yet.
Adam Smith and Douglas Michael Basler don’t yet have any topic in common on which both have a stated position or a tracked promise — so there’s nothing to compare issue-by-issue here. That usually just means coverage is still thin. You can help add their sourced positions and promises.