Ranking the Members of the U.S. Senate (According to Their Smiles)

We judge our elected representatives on lots of things: voting record, message consistency, rhetorical ability, charisma. Given all the pageantry of politics, though, it’s sort of shocking that it hasn’t occurred to us to judge them on the thing that pretty well sums up everything else: their facial expressions.

Well, okay, maybe that’s not the best way to judge them. But it’s a funny way. And, courtesy of mandatory congressional portraits and some open APIs, we now have a tool to do it. Read more. [Images: Dan Nguyen/Sunlight Labs’ Congress API]

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