SCORECARD · ANGUS KING in office since 2025-01-03

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Independent U.S. Senate · ME full conduct profile →
63/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
31
Contradiction risk25%
54
Connection density20%
91
Donor influence10%
78
Fact density10%
55
Constituency deviation5%
21
Voting misalignment5%
1

Weighted composite, 0–100. Identical to the figure on the Congress monitor. Each bar is the component's normalised 0–100 contribution before weighting.

01

Silence on donor-funded topics 4

Topics where donors have documented interests but the official has no public statement on record. Silence is the absence of expected speech — not proof of intent.

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02

Vote-vs-platform contradictions 3

Roll-call votes that contradict the official's own stated platform commitments. Each links to the bill and the contradiction rationale.

37.5% of 8 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • S. 1303 ↗ NAY 2021-04-28
    Restore the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act SALT Deduction
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Limiting the state and local tax deduction disproportionately hurts high-tax states; King's 'No' vote, while consistent with his fiscal conservatism, disappointed Maine homeowners who would benefit from reinstatement.
  • Sanders Amendment to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to $15
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] King was one of eight Democrats to oppose the amendment, arguing a uniform $15 wage would hurt Maine's small businesses and rural economy; the vote went against the interests of low-wage constituents and the party base.
  • Confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
    why contradicted?
    [reversal] After pledging to vote 'no,' King voted 'present,' a decision that made it easier for the nominee to be confirmed, drawing sharp criticism from Maine constituents who opposed the rushed confirmation process.
Full voting record + platform comparison →
03

Broken promises 0

Documented public commitments paired with the documented action that broke them. Each carries a primary-source citation for the violation.

No documented broken promises on file.

04

Documented contradictions 1

Stated-position-vs-revealed-conduct contradictions analysed against the official's commitments, scored by strength of the contradiction.

  • statement_vs_vote SCORE 90
    King explicitly pledged to vote against confirmation, then voted 'Present' the next day — a vote that did not register opposition and therefore did not help block the nominee, contradicting his stated intention.
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What this scorecard does and doesn't claim

Every figure above is a count of records the platform already holds, each click-through-able to its source. The scorecard adds no inference, no forecast, and no narrative — it aggregates what is documented.

A populated scorecard is not a finding of corruption. It documents the volume of stated-vs-revealed tension, donor-adjacent silence, and broken commitments on the public record for this official. Silence in particular is the absence of an expected statement; it can have innocent explanations and is never presented as proof. Read each item's source before drawing conclusions.

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CitationGoblin House. "Angus King — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 16, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/angus-king.

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