[Prost1]

List the names and check the votes...

There are few moderates (Ben Nelson, Nb, possibly Bill Nelson of Florida, Landrieu of LA).

45 dem Senators and I've run out of names.

[K-oneTexas]

All I'm trying to say is that in any political party you run the gamut from left-to-right: liberals to centrists/moderates and conservatives. Now I think it may be more of a factor to look at individual issues (i.e., abortion, economic and education) however they tend to slide a person from left to right on that scale.

I think most all the time (80% or more) when you look at all the issues or the individual you do find Kennedy, Schumer and Durbin on the Democrat left. Possible Lehey more towards the Democrat center. Former GA Democrat Senator Miller on the Democrat right. That's all I'm trying to say.

The Republican Party is the same with a spattering of persons across the scale. Not they they met but at times they come together to form a block (on an issue more than an ideology), like the "Gang of 14".