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http://www.naacp.org/preview/pages/report-cards

If you click on the 113th Congress (2013 - 2104) it only gives you 2013.

If you click on Vermont it will give you the 2012 rating.

They analyzed websites and twitter feed

Talk is cheap - actions count. Bernie is working with a People's Budget. He doesn't have big money backers with piles of money to fund websites and twitter feeds.

Update: HARRY REID RANKED #84: 2011/12 rating incomplete. 2013 rating 96%. His ACLU rating was 46%. Things that make you go hmmmmmm.

Just sayin. Not that we should hold that against her. It was a little insensitive.

what got weighted in what ways etc. I think there are more to a legislator than votes and I agree intensity matters but to put out a list and not say what the list is based on is problematic.

They analyzed Congressional floor records, which makes sense, but also official websites and Twitter feeds? The last two make no sense. Sanders was elected from a state that's is only like 2% black, so he probably had less to say about Civil Rights in his Twitter feeds and on his website than someone from a state that's more integrated. The only relevant data comes from the way a politician votes, and if the NAACP gives him 100% that's a lot better than this info that strikes me as peculiar.

trying to push. I wonder what that could be........

Maybe they think what a person chooses to tell others is an indication of what they think is important. That is why they are calling this a measure of intensity.

Votes count, talk is cheap.

are given by taxpayers funds to set up websites and twitter feeds and to pay the employees required to run them.

analyzed? Wait - we don't know that because NO detail is provided.

since as you point out he only represents white people and thus should only be talking about issues which matter to them? You can't have it both ways. You can't say on the one hand of course he will be great on these issues but then on the other say well he represents white folk so he doesn't ever talk about these issues. Your other point is valid and I address it in response to your other post.

Look, I think the execution here is problematic. No formula given to see how each item was ranked, no scores given so we can see if there are massive numbers of ties and what the difference is between say 1st and 50th and 200th. So I am by no means endorsing the list given here, but the idea of the list given here isn't necessarily a bad one.

Especially since that same site elsewhere knows that Sanders is more liberal on most issues

Including some that Sanders has been attacked on by Hillary supporters:
Gender Equality, where he is 6.5L and she's 5.1L. Average D is 6.0L
Guns, where he is 7.6L and she's 5.3L. Average D is 5.9L
Immigration , where he is 7.2L and she's 5.2L. Average D is 6.4L.


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