About Gladhandlers

What is Gladhandlers.com?

Reviews for current politicians. You can leave Kudos for positive reviews or Grudges for negative ones. You can reply to existing comments and thumbs-up and down their reviews. There's also the Gladhandler's Score -- the net aggregate of the politicians grudges and kudos.

So, what's the point?

Primary elections. No one will vote for the other party. So, if we're going to make meaningful change, we have to do it through the party primaries. Unfortunately, there is very little participation. My hope is that, at primary time, gladhandlers.com can be used to drive people to the primary process and vote out the bums.

There are many sites that will give you voting history and issue positions, others that give you public feeling on issues, but none that communicate how people feel about specific candidates. My hope is that Gladhandlers can be used to bring more support to primary elections by igniting people's passions about their representative's behavior.

What is a glad-handler?

According to the Political Dictionary: A glad-hander is a highly extroverted person who makes a point of acting friendly in an over-the-top way. However, in politics the term glad-hander connotes insincerity and opportunism.

This seems interesting, how can I help?

• Consider creating an account on gladhandlers.com and leave some reviews. I like bookmarking things that delight me or annoy me from X; then, when I have a minute, I come to gladhandlers.com and review. It feels good.
• If you have feedback, suggestion, or questions you can use the in-app feedback option, or you can post something in Locals or Patreon.
• Follow me on X. @Gladhandlers.
• Visit the Support Page for options to support the project financially.