Launch Edition
AButtForPrez: The Name Is Funny. The Methodology Isn’t.
Transparent, source-verified civic data and nonpartisan analysis for citizens, journalists, and voters.
Our Research
Start With the Questions That Matter
Five ways into the same problem: what Americans need, who governs, whether government can deliver, and whether the rules themselves need fixing.
Can You Afford America?
What does it actually cost to live here? We track housing, food, energy, transportation, debt and other household pressures across generations and geography.
How Screwed Are We Today?
Tracking economic stress, vulnerability, and how much room remains to respond.
Meet Your Congress
Who represents you—and how well do they actually govern? Explore members, candidates, experience, effectiveness, incentives and the races shaping the next Congress.
Can Congress Govern?
We follow important public needs through the legislative machinery to see where governing succeeds, where it stalls, and where the system itself gets in the way.
The Better Prenup
What would we change if America could rewrite the rules before the next political marriage went bad? A serious examination of constitutional guardrails, institutional design and reform.
Our Premise
Rigorous Research, Not Rhetoric.
We start with the evidence, show our assumptions, publish the methodology, and follow the results even when they make our preferred answer inconvenient.
By the Numbers
The Research Behind the Butt
535
Congressional Seats Modeled
6
Congresses Analyzed
13
Core Public Needs Tracked