Timothy E. Parker
The Parker Blog
Timothy E. Parker, in his own voice. Receipts over rhetoric.
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The Scoreboard Does Not Care
Judge politicians by documented actions only and the results will offend everyone eventually. That is how you know the method is working.
July 4, 2026
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What FiveThirtyEight Got Right, and What Its Death Should Teach Every Ranking Site
The best data journalism operation of its era was shut down by a memo, and then its archive broke. I took three lessons from that, and I built this site on all of them.
July 4, 2026
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Why I Built USPoliticalRank
I have spent 30 years building puzzles where the answer is the answer no matter who is solving. Politics deserves a scoreboard built the same way.
July 4, 2026
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