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Marsha Blackburn

Republican · U.S. Senator, Tennessee · Tennessee · Spectrum score +66

Senate ·

Marsha Blackburn is U.S. Senator, Tennessee in Tennessee. Political positions and ideology score +66 (Far right). Blackburn is the culture hawk with a hospital donor list.

College: Mississippi State University, B.S. 1973
Spouse: Chuck Blackburn (m. 1974)
Children: Two
Résumé: U.S. Senator · Tennessee · 2019–
U.S. Representative · Tennessee-7 · 2003–2019
Tennessee State Senate · 1999–2003

Net worth: $3.6M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $800K
2026 raised: $8.4M
Years in office: 23

Where Marsha stands on the spectrum

Marsha Blackburn scores +66 on Spectrum’s left–right line (far right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +66 · Far right · economic +68 · social +69 · authoritarian +41

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Blackburn is the culture hawk with a hospital donor list. The file is Tennessee’s corporate map — HCA country, retail, music — under a Big Tech-hearing paint job. The hearings clip well. The industries persist.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$3.6M

+350% since taking office

Senate disclosure midpoint, 2024

Before office$800K

Now$3.6M

Tennessee House to Congress to Senate. Country-music and hospital money, a leadership-adjacent PAC.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $8.4M
Cash on hand: $3.7M

Top industries

Health
Entertainment
Retail
Energy

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Tennessee corporate map in funds.

Disclosure midpoint, 2024–25 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$100K–$500K
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$30K–$150K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Joint	$100K–$500K
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Joint	$30K–$150K

Sum of ranges $130K–$650K · midpoint $390K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

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Conflicts

Big Tech hearings as a Nashville-and-cable product.
Hospital donors in a state that did not expand Medicaid the way the donors feared.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +68
Social: +69
Authoritarian: +41
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+74
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+62
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+70
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+70
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+58
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+68
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+72
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+78
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+66
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+76
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+74
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+56
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.62

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

GovTrack 2024
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.