Karen Camper

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4,748 roll-call votes on record - 4,177 yes, 558 no; these state roll calls carry no party-by-party tally. state roll calls
Latest coverage: “Red and Blue States Align in Unlikely Bipartisan Push for States’ Rights Against Federal Overreach…” (FlaglerLive, Jul 5, 2026) - one of 4 stories across the spectrum (Left 2 · Center 2 · Right 0). coverage, lean labeled ↗
Serves as State Representative, District 87 (Tennessee) since Mar 2008. wapp.capitol.tn.gov ↗

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The record

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4,748

Roll-call votes on record.

4,748 votes · 4,177 yes · 558 no · 13 not voting. These roll calls don’t record a party-by-party tally, so there’s no party-alignment rate to show - the votes themselves are below. official roll calls · May 7, 2026

LATEST: NOAN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2, relative to the 2026 congressional elections.HB 7001 · May 7, 2026

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Personal finances

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Political placement

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Left–right estimates (academic)

Shor-McCarty · votesLiberal

More liberal than 92% of Tennessee House members

Details

Score−0.76 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom roll-call votes

Party median0.33 more liberal than the Democratic median in this group (−0.42)

Compared with327 members of Tennessee House members (1996–2022)

Covers2008–2022

● This person Democrats (118) Republicans (206)Thick bar: middle half · thin line: middle 80%

Shor, Boris. 2025. "Individual State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data, January 2025 Update." Harvard Dataverse, V1. Method: Shor, Boris, and Nolan McCarty. 2011. "The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures." American Political Science Review 105(3). Shor-McCarty ↗

DIME CFscore · donorsCenter-Left

More liberal than 73% of 2022 Tennessee House candidates

Details

Score−0.19 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale

BasisFrom campaign donors

Party median0.56 more conservative than the Democratic median in this group (−0.76)

Compared with174 members of 2022 Tennessee House candidates

Covers2008–2022

● This person Democrats (50) Republicans (120)Thick bar: middle half · thin line: middle 80%

Bonica, Adam. 2024. Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections: Public version 4.0. Stanford University Libraries. https://data.stanford.edu/dime DIME CFscore ↗

About these scores

These are third-party academic estimates of one left–right dimension, computed by researchers from roll-call votes or campaign donors. They are not Poliscope’s judgment. Each source uses its own scale, so compare people within a source rather than across sources.

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