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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums52 senators have an A-minus NRA rating or higher including four Democrats
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/15/52-senators-have-an-a-minus-nra-rating-or-higher-including-four-democrats/?utm_term=.6dc19f57b9ac
Important note - 40 out of the 49 Democrats have an F rating from the NRA.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)He's a bit of a blue dog, but in a red state, that's about all I can ask for.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Makes sense to me.
Have you been happy with him, relatively speaking?
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)I can't take this seriously.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Why wouldn't the NRA assign those grades to those senators?
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)I believe Casey has actually moved to the left of Sanders on the issue of gun control.
By the time that weekend ended 3½ years ago, as Christmas approached and his wife and daughters accosted him over his views, Casey had a conversion. Casey has since embraced every major proposal to counter gun violence, including a renewed ban on assault weapons and enhanced background checks before gun purchases. On Monday, Casey was back in Pittsburgh to unveil legislation in the wake of the massacre of 49 people inside a nightclub popular with Orlandos gay community that would forbid those convicted of a hate crime from purchasing weapons.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/06/16/how-pro-gun-bob-casey-became-an-evangelist-for-gun-control-laws/?utm_term=.2df805157633
I simply don't understand those particular ratings. As far as the Republicans go, I wouldn't disagree.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)wondered if the NRA might be helping Sanders out just a bit. I felt the rating was questionable, but my comparison is to the large majority of Democratic senators the NRA honored with solid Fs.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Probably 2012.
Sorry the facts get in the way of the ABB meme.
Civic Justice
(870 posts)WE the people should give the only rating that matter !!!!
Get all the politicians out whom have taken money from the NRA and have given their devotion to some crazy NRA rating.
Say BYE, to them in November!!!!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Civic Justice
(870 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)One was ranked B and the other D.
There is no way I'd want to kick them out of Congress because of some arbitrary rating from the NRA.
still_one
(92,219 posts)marches will motivate people to come out to vote in 2018