read_a_fucking_book

What do you mean by metrics being hard? Just in terms of knowing how people are? That makes sense, but you can always look at votes, and generally don't endorsing organizations conduct interviews with candidates to get a sense of that sort of thing? Anyway, yeah, I use ratings from other organizations who really understand their policy to judge candidates all the time - but tech doesn't have any organizations like that that I know of.

What organizations have been really at the front on issues like this? Do any of them endorse or rate politicians, to give us a sense of how Congresspeople do on tech issues? EFF springs to mind, but I don't think they endorse.