Public Figures
How favorably vs critically the tracked panel talks about each figure, over the last 30 days. Favorability runs from −5 (critical) to +5 (favorable), reach- and intensity-weighted across stance-bearing mentions. This is a separate axis from the left/right Soapbox Index - a figure can be loved or loathed across party lines - so it never moves the needle. Passing name-drops and benchmark references are excluded. (Trump is held for a later release; he saturates the corpus.)
Joe Biden
Democrat · 3,697 mentions
Critical-2.3
Barack Obama
Democrat · 2,281 mentions
Leaning critical-1.3
Ken Paxton
Republican · 1,782 mentions
Critical-2.0
Elon Musk
Tech · 1,723 mentions
Leaning critical-1.2
James Talarico
Democrat · 1,612 mentions
Leaning critical-0.9
JD Vance
Republican · 1,539 mentions
Leaning critical-1.5
Vladimir Putin
Foreign · 1,518 mentions
Critical-3.0
Benjamin Netanyahu
Foreign · 1,123 mentions
Critical-2.2
Kamala Harris
Democrat · 972 mentions
Critical-2.2
Marco Rubio
Republican · 929 mentions
Leaning critical-0.4
Zohran Mamdani
Democrat · 886 mentions
Leaning critical-1.5
Pete Hegseth
Republican · 824 mentions
Critical-2.9
Mike Rogers
Republican · 787 mentions
Leaning critical-1.3
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democrat · 772 mentions
Leaning critical-1.8
Bernie Sanders
Democrat · 730 mentions
Leaning critical-1.1
Volodymyr Zelensky
Foreign · 649 mentions
Neutral+0.2
Tucker Carlson
Media · 627 mentions
Leaning critical-1.4
Susan Collins
Republican · 615 mentions
Leaning critical-1.7
Gavin Newsom
Democrat · 443 mentions
Leaning critical-2.0
Mike Johnson
Republican · 396 mentions
Critical-2.4
Jon Ossoff
Democrat · 370 mentions
Leaning favorable+0.4
Troy Jackson
Democrat · 357 mentions
Leaning critical-0.9
Sherrod Brown
Democrat · 278 mentions
Neutral+0.1
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Republican · 265 mentions
Leaning critical-1.6
Ron DeSantis
Republican · 213 mentions
Leaning critical-1.0