WHY
Does Emanuel Cleaver's voting align with their donors?
Correlation summary
A strong correlation between donor sector funding and voting alignment, based on 8 sectors with sufficient data.
- Peer average
- 31.3%
- Percentile rank
- 50th
Methodology
Correlation between campaign donor sectors and voting alignment on sector-relevant bills. Bills classified by AI-generated affectedIndustries or policy-area-map fallback. Spearman rank correlation across sectors with 10+ votes.
This analysis shows factual patterns in public data. Campaign contributions are legal and do not indicate wrongdoing. Voting alignment with donor industries is common across all legislators. Correlation does not indicate causation or improper behavior.
- Confidence
- 80%
- Data as of
- Mar 26, 2026
Sector alignment
- Defense58.6% aligned$0
29 bills analyzed
- Ideology/Single-Issue39.1% aligned$0
23 bills analyzed
- Agribusiness36.4% aligned$0
11 bills analyzed
- Health33.3% aligned$20K
12 bills analyzed
- Construction24.0% aligned$60K
25 bills analyzed
- Energy/Natural Resources23.0% aligned$50K
61 bills analyzed
- Finance/Insurance/Real Estate18.2% aligned$318K
22 bills analyzed
- Lawyers & Lobbyists7.7% aligned$0
26 bills analyzed
Campaign finance data from FEC.gov. Voting records from Congress.gov. Full methodology