Lifetime ratings for members of Congress through 2006 have been released. Steven Thomma of
McClatchy Newspapers reports (scroll down beneath the Democrats):
The most conservative member of Congress seeking the Republican nomination - based on lifetime voting records - is Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, with a score of 82.5. The most conservative score possible was 99.Lifetime scores for the other Republicans:
-Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, 81
-Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, 75.9
-Sen. John McCain of Arizona, 71.8
-Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, 71.5
-Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, 51.7
The year-to-year scores can reveal consistency or change. McCain, for example, grew increasingly less conservative in recent years. He started with annual conservative scores consistently in the 80s when he first went to the Senate in 1987, dipped to the 70s during the mid-1990s, into the 60s in the late 1990s and into the 50s starting in 2004.
Read the whole report at the link above, including a link to the raw data.
McCain's move left has been steady and dramatic. He manages to retain his mid-range score on the basis of his early record and his steadfast numbers on budgeting and foreign policy. However, he has moved left on almost everything else, including taxes and social spending.
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Comments (2)
Sam Brownback just looks be... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Psycheout | March 21, 2007 1:11 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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1. Posted by Psycheout | March 21, 2007 1:11 AM |
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Posted on March 21, 2007 01:11
2. Posted by Glenn Koons | March 21, 2007 2:07 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Oh please stop conservs. Sam is not going to win the nomination and neither is Paul, Tancredo or Hunter. Stop. We are living in a real world not a fantasy. The fact that Obama is more liberal than Dennis has no meaning since most Americans could care less about our blogs or out internicine battles here , on townhall.com or anywhere. The public gets its majority of news from the MSM. They do not care about BO's liberalism. They only see Pubs self-destructing. Newt is not going to run and if he does, we know 50% of the voters will already be against him. Fred Thompson could swing some voters. But, so far, he is not in. When and if he gets in, I will be for him. But, for now, I want a Rudy-Fred ticket because it can actually win. Not in dream world but real world. Unless conservPubs of all stripes start to unite, we will have another '06 disaster. Please face that. All of whning about RINO's will not help. The GOP has one candidate so far who can beat any Dem. He is not perfect, that we know. But, he can win. I want to win not lose. Elections have consequences, as '06 showed.
2. Posted by Glenn Koons | March 21, 2007 2:07 PM |
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Posted on March 21, 2007 14:07