Posted on 02/22/2010 4:51:36 PM PST by Impy
They were released last week. Currently they're only available in PDF format.
They aren't the be all end all but they are a usual barometer among many. They look at 25 votes for each house across a wide spectrum of issues.
In 2008 there was a huge lurch to the left according to their scores. Some called their ratings outliers because of this. 2009 saw a general improvement of scores more in line with other years.
Senate
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) 68 (2008 score 58) (lifetime 70)
John McCain is NOT the worst GOP Senator up for reelection. It's Lisa. She has no primary opponent.
John McCain 96 (2008 63/Lifetime 82)
That would reflect his pandering to the right for his primary election.
Joe Lieberman 20 (2008 8/Lifetime 16)
Olympia Snowe (RINO-Maine) 48 (12/48)
Susan Collins (Same as Above) 48 (20/49)
Both again score in their usual range after having very low democrat like scores in 2008. Same story with "moderate" RAT Ben Nelson
Ben Nelson (D-NE) 44 (16/47)
Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) 0 (23/10)
In her GOP house seat she was ever so slightly more moderate. She's embraced the far left to win the love of NYC dems.
Arlen Specter (D-PA) He switched in Late April. 20 (42/44)
Jim Jeffords moved from scores in the 30s to near zero when he switched.
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) 88 (82/90)
Lamar Alexander (R-TN) 68 (72/79) He's crummy
Bob Bennett (R-UT) 84 (64/84) Utah conservatives want to replace him.
In Vermont open socialist Bernie Sanders remains slightly to the right of democrat Patrick Leahy.
House
Alabama
Freshman Rat Bobby Bright who considered running as a Republican (he was officially non-partisan as Mayor of Birminham) but chose the rats cause he's a jerkwad, scored a 72. The highest for a rat.
Freshman Parker Griffith who switched to the GOP scored a 56. Same as rat Gene Taylor of Mississipi who's lifetime of 66 is the highest for a rat in Congress. In 2008 Taylor got a 24.
Republican Mike Rogers scored an 80, same as his lifetime score. He got a shockingly low 50 in 2008.
3 Cuban Florida Republicans similarly returned to their usual scores in the 70s after low scores in 2008 (around 50 for the Diaz-Balart brothers and 32 for Ileana Ros-Lechian)
RINO Mike Castle of Delaware scored a 56. His lifetime is 52. In 2008 he got a 28. He's expected to easily be elected to the Senate. But he has a better primary challenger.
RINO Senate Candidate Mark Kirk of Illinois got a high 72. Last year 48. Lifetime 57.5. His score inflates his how conservative he is in my opinion.
Freshman Joe Cao of New Orleans got the lowest score for a Republican in the House. 55. He voted for Obamacare but likely wouldn't have voted for the final conference report.
I am surprised at Bright, Taylor, and Kirk. The rest, not so much.
Ping
It’s no surprise that Snowe and Collins have the same record since they share a brain.
As a result, Rogers barely won, 52-48 last election. I called his office, sent emails, blasted him nearly every day. I told him he'd better get his head out or we would work to send his sorry behind packing in 2010. Maybe he woke up a little bit. If not, I will work as hard as anyone too find someone beat his sorry ass.
Did you think Taylor would be score lower again?
I share the surprise that Kirk scored that high. And Bobby Bright who dimly joined the democrats.
Taylor is a spineless, fruity-looking anti-military punk. So yes.
High black turnout for Obama also factored in the narrowness of this race.
Checking the margin it was either a 7 or 8 point win for Rogers. 2 sources differ.
Are you calling them halfwits?
:-)
Thank you Impy. Handy link. FRegards ....
later
The one I saw here was 52-48. That was in local Anniston RED Star rag. But, of course that is a NY Slimes owned paper, thus probably wanted it too look closer.
Bobby Bright was the mayor of Montgomery, not Birmingham. I know him and he is my Congressman. I’ve already informed him that if he runs as a dem again, he can kisss my vote goodbye.
LOL Like the brain God gave a gnat.
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) 68 (2008 score 58) (lifetime 70)
Stevens last year in the Senate (2008), he had a 50.
Did I tell you or did I tell you that the drop in ACU scores for conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans alike in 2008 was due to ACU, not to all of them simultaneously becoming more liberal?
I still think that the best way to gauge voting records is by looking at several different ratings, not just ACU. I like to take 6 ratings from Barone’s Almanac-—the liberal ADA, AFS (labor) and LCV (League of Conservation Voters) scores and the conservative ACU, CFG (Club for Growth) and FRC (Family Research Council) scores. Of course, I have to subtract the liberal scores from 100 to get a “conservative equivalent” before I can add them up to the conservative scores; I then divide the total score by 600 to get a conservative percentage.
This may be amusing reading to some extant, but you should always note that ACU and David Keene are now well known to be frauds.
That’s a fairly good method, though not foolproof. Many years ago, the highest-rated Congressman of all groups combined was Glenn Anderson (D-CA), whose combined scores of all groups brought about the highest number.
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