538 - "Hillary Clinton Was Liberal. Hillary Clinton Is Liberal" - Really?
I read somewhere that Hillary and Bernie voted together 93 percent of the time when they were in the Senate, which does not match with my gut. We all know that Hillary is a DINO and that she votes with Republicans most of the time. Can someone get a REAL voting analysis to show that he is more in line with McCain, than Bernie.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/hillary-clinton-was-liberal-hillary-clinton-is-liberal/
Clinton was one of the most liberal members during her time in the Senate. According to an analysis of roll call votes by Voteview, Clinton’s record was more liberal than 70 percent of Democrats in her final term in the Senate. She was more liberal than 85 percent of all members. Her 2008 rival in the Democratic presidential primary, Barack Obama, was nearby with a record more liberal than 82 percent of all members — he was not more liberal than Clinton.
Clinton also has a history of very liberal public statements. Clinton rates as a “hard core liberal” per the OnTheIssues.org scale. She is as liberal as Elizabeth Warren and barely more moderate than Bernie Sanders. And while Obama is also a “hard core liberal,” Clinton again was rated as more liberal than Obama.
Sometimes I wonder whether people are confusing Clinton with her husband. Bill Clinton’s statements have been far more moderate. He has also had a more moderate donor base, according to Adam Bonica’s fundraising scores.
There have been a few issues on which Hillary Clinton has taken more centrist positions. She, of course, voted for the Iraq War (she now says that was a mistake). Clinton has been mostly pro free trade (although she hasn’t said much of anything on the Trans-Pacific Partnership). And she has been against marijuana legalization, and seemingly remains so.
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Quite an "Evolution"...
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Does this mean the Republicans are now the TRUE LIBERALS?
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Looking for a comparison of actual voting record, and perhaps a comparison against conservatives like John McCain.
DW-NOMINATE is a dimensionality reduction algorithm that computes a set of scores for each member of Congress. It takes as input all roll call votes since the first Congress (a very high dimensional data set), and outputs a two-dimensional representation of Congress. Very surprisingly, just one dimension accounts for much of the variation in the original data. This dimension correlates very well with our subjective evaluation of who is more liberal or conservative. In that way, it is a truly objective measure of ideology.
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Under their demographic model, Bernie always tends to do better in white states. But if you have a large minority population, Bernie has not done so well, which is weird. Afterall, didn't Bernie photobomb Dr. King:
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I never thought of the Club for Growth as particularly progressive or a $11 trillion tax cut as to the left of the relatively modest tax increase proposed by Hillary, but if huge tax cuts are the new left, so be it...
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http://www.npr.org/2016/05/13/477930933/reality-check-what-donald-trump-has-said-about-taxes-and-the-wealthy
"The interesting thing about how Trump looks at this stuff is, he sort of compromises his negotiating position right upfront by admitting that he doesn't really think this is really his plan, and that's something unusual, something I've not seen from other political candidates," says Alan Cole, an economist at the Tax Foundation.
Stephen Moore, a prominent conservative commentator and founder of the Club for Growth, who met with Trump several weeks ago, says he remains convinced that the candidate is committed to tax cuts.
"He told us in the meeting he wants to cut tax rates. He believes this is the way to grow the economy, and I take him at his word on that. I think that's been a centerpiece of what he's been talking about on taxes," Moore said.
But Moore says he and other conservatives, including Larry Kudlow and Arthur Laffer, have met with Trump staffers to discuss ways to tweak Trump's tax cuts, to mitigate their impact on the deficit. While Trump hasn't actually endorsed their ideas, his staff seems willing to consider them, Moore says.
The most impressive graphic wins. If so, what about this graph?
They only voted differently 7 percent of the time! Perhaps Bernie is a little too conservative/establishment for me as well. 
http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/03/30/31-senate-bills-hillary-bernie-voted-differently/
When it comes to the two remaining Democratic candidates, their voting records aren’t too far apart. Former New York Senator Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders have voted in tandem on 93% of all the votes the made together, disagreeing on only 31 votes. The New York Times recently broke down exactly when they differed on opinion. When they did disagree, it’s clear that Clinton usually voted with the majority opinion, while the independent Sanders voted on his principles.
The two disagreed the most on foreign policy, with Clinton favoring an aggressive deployment of American power across the world while Sanders favored a more isolationist and hands-off role for America in the world. They also clashed on whether or not to approve the 2008 bailout of the Wall Street banks (the Troubled Asset Relief Program or TARP) and the dead-on-arrival 2007 immigration bill, which Sanders opposed over concerns of fraud in the guest visa program that could have hurt Vermont farmers.
It’s a very interesting to see the dichotomy of the two sides laid out side-by-side, highlighting the differences in priority between the two candidates. But the important thing to note is that they agreed on a vast majority of the issues that matter to the American people – and that we are very lucky to have two candidates which such nuanced and intricately designed policy platforms, as opposed to the deluge of barely disguised racism and factually incorrect drivel that spews from the Republican side of the fence.
