109th House — GGUM scores
GGUM ideal point estimates for the 109th House (members scored: 438 of 440; max PSRF: 1.006).
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Download H109-ggum-scores.csv — 440 members, 25 columns (Voteview metadata + GGUM θ, θ SD, PSRF).
Off-diagonal members
The following 5 members fall more than 2.5σ off the OLS fit of GGUM θ on W-NOMINATE dim-1. We flag these as diagnostic cases where the two scalings most disagree.
| Member | Party | State | nominate | GGUM θ | residual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAUL | R | TX | +0.86 | +0.37 | -2.12 |
| KUCINICH | D | OH | -0.58 | -2.82 | -0.87 |
| STARK | D | CA | -0.63 | -2.87 | -0.76 |
| WOOLSEY | D | CA | -0.56 | -2.63 | -0.75 |
| BLUMENAUER | D | OR | -0.43 | -2.17 | -0.70 |
Placements worth a second look
GGUM’s placement of the following members differs from what their established political reputations might lead a reader to expect. We draw attention to these cases so that researchers can consider them before using the estimates for a particular analysis; we are not alleging error.
- PAUL. Ron Paul is commonly viewed as the House’s defining libertarian-conservative pole for three decades. GGUM places him near the chamber median in this Congress only; every adjacent term places him among the twenty most conservative House members.
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The prose on this page was drafted with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, with plausibility audits by Claude Sonnet 4.5 subagents. The author edited and reviewed throughout.