How Interest Groups Rate the Senators: (liberal - conservative)

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2006/Info/senator-ratings.html

Top 3 most liberal democratic senators: Obama, Durbin and Harkin (all tied with 98 average)

Top 3 most conservative demoocratic senators: Nelson(NE), Conrad and Baucus

Top 4 most conservative republicans: Bunning, Cochran, Bond and Sessions (all tied with an average of 1)

Top 3 most liberal republicans: Chafee, Collins and Snow (They fall in between Nelson(NE) and Conrad).

Joe Lieberman's ranking: Average is a 77, there are 8 democrats lower than him including my own Tom Carper :grr:

He piles on when his vote isn't necessary and bails when the Dems need him the most.

Kinda like A-Rod.

I'm just curious why we (including me - I'm from Delaware) did nothing to get rid of those listed below Lieberman. I mean if Lieberman is that horrible of a democrat how do these others get a free pass?

(except for Nelson) are better than even Lincoln Chafee, Collins, and Snowe, who happen to represent blue states.


Lieberman belongs well below the others, both for personal treachery and for his enabling of Bush.

We're quite blue in Delaware expecially in the more populated northern part of the state

who allow him to get away with it.

Until he decided to continue supporting Lieberman after the primaries. Then it was too late to get a candidate on the ticket

:cry:

I just felt we had more important races in Pennsylvania and Maryland

we're in the minority.

If we get to 51+, then we can really focus on the Carper's (by that I mean DLC-types from solid blue states).

far to easy to manipulate, and you better believe they are fully aware of it. Vote for a worthless of ineffective "liberal" bill get 1 point, vote for a blatant fascist for the SCOTUS lose 1 point. Push an anti-people bill through the whole process, but then "miss" the vote (after ensuring it will pass) and no points either way.

never let anyone tell you there's no difference between the two parties.

n/t

have an average rating of...5.

Bond is a 1, Talent is at 9. :puke:

and rankings are utter baloney. When you have torture enablers like Menendez ranking as more liberal than my Senator, Pat Leahy, who's been consistently liberal in his 30 years in the Senate, you know there's something messed up.

I think there was some mention not only here but elsewhere that the Democrats are pushing to get the torture bill to go to the courts where they can permamently shoot it down and make what Bush is doing illegal.

Menendez has always been pretty liberal. As a member of the house he didn't support the IWR vote or the Patriot Act. So that list is pretty dead on-accurate.

I'm thinking we've not heard the last of the torture bill and perhaps to help eliminate the nagging "Democrats soft on terrorism" TV ads that Kean would have definately pushed, both Menendez and even Lautenberg (another liberal) took a chance that this will get into the courts and be totally reversed.

And if the courts overturn this rule - then it pretty much says that what Bush has been doing was illegal. Only problem is now the Torture has taken a backseat to Foley

is a political opportunist torture supporter. He's not in the same league as Senator Leahy. Not. Even. Close.

can lead to skewing or perceptions of skewing. Overall, the ratings seem right on.

How can that be when they give Kennedy a 100 and Kennedy and Kerry voted similarly n education issues?

These numbers are RIGGED - but WHY? Obama certainly does NOT have the most liberal voting record his two years in office.

They consider missed votes as negative votes. Otherwise, he would be tied with Kennedy.

I am not sure why Feingold is so low either.

As for Obama, he is certainly not the most liberal senator.

To effect primaries? Most likely.