[onyx]

Only Ben Nelson (D - Nebraska) bested the GOP's worst, the defeated Lincoln Chafee (37%).

The unseated DeWine (80% lifetime rating) was defeated by Democrat, Sherrod Brown (8% lifetime rating).

The Maine girls are both in the 50's --- but I am glad we have them and not democrats.

[onyx]

Here it is, BSF.

:)

[paudio]

Some 'conservatives' are so focus on 1-2 issues (and sometimes they are not even so important) and ignore other issues. So much that they are willing to replace someone with 80% lifetime rating with 8% lifetime rating. Although, to be fair, this is lifetime rating. If we look at the more recent ratings, DeWine's probably may not even close to that.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Hmmm, so who would be the better presidential candidate, Jeff Sessions or Jim DeMint? Both have 98 lifetime ratings. : )

[zendari]

Yup. The people who hate Chafee and Dewine are entirely unrealistic.

[kesg]

It surprises me that in 2005 Chuck Hagel scored higher than Rick Santorum. It surprises me that in 2005 Rick Santorum and Kay Bailey Hutchison were tied. It surprises me that John Kerry registered anything at all.

[You Dirty Rats]

In 2005 out of 12 members of the Congress from MA the member with the second-most Conservative rating was John Francois Kerry with an 8!!!

Out of 12 members only ONE has a lifetime rating in double digits!!

The only member of the Republican Party in the Senate who can fairly be called a RINO is Chafee. All the rest rank much better than any of the 'Rats.

To be fair and accurate, these ratings show that John McCain can be classified as a conservative. What the ratings don't show is that he is a backstabbing weasel who wrecked our chance to deploy the nucular option forever and convinced DeWine to commit political suicide.

[Parley Baer]

Look at Lieberman. Sigh!

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

But we're purer, and better!

[packrat35]

Sad when a Socialist like Sanders gets better than many Dewine and others.

[Pan_Yan]

I got bored and played around with Excel and it showed some interesting trends. If I ever find ten free hours I'll go back a few more years.

2004 2005
Congress as a whole 51.93 52.36

Senate (whole) 53.04 52.86
(republicans) 88.87 86.35
(democrats) 9.72 11.93

House (whole) 51.66 52.24
(republicans) 87.24 85.94
(democrats) 12.09 13.72

Democrats (all) 11.64 13.40
Republicans (all) 87.57 86.02

In every case, the democrats moved right and the republicans moved left. This while the republicans controlled congress and the white house, during a war.

Overall, congress moved right, I would assume because republicans controlled the agenda. But all the right movement was from the democrats. Weird.

(excuse the formatting, I'm not HTML right now)

[onyx]

Thanks for compiling the list!



Republican Incumbents Who Lost in the House:

Jim Ryun (KS) - ACU rating 98
J.D. Hayworth (AZ) - ACU rating 98
Richard Pombo (CA) - ACU rating 97
Chris Chocola (IN) - ACU rating 95
Gil Gutknecht (MN) - ACU rating 94
Charles Taylor (NC) - ACU rating 92
Mike Sodrel (IN) - ACU rating 92
Melissa Hart (PA) - ACU rating 91
John Hostettler (IN) - ACU rating 90
Don Sherwood (PA) - ACU rating 87
Anne Northup (KY) - ACU rating 86
Clay Shaw (NC) ACU rating 82
John Sweeney (NY) ACU rating 77
Jeb Bradley (NH) ACU rating 71
Charles Bass (NH) ACU rating 71
Curt Weldon (PA) ACU rating 70
Sue Kelly (NY) ACU rating 65
Mike Fitzpatrick (PA) ACU rating 60
Nancy Johnson (CT) ACU rating 47
Jim Leach (IA) ACU rating 43



Vacated Republican seats lost

DeLay (TX) ACU rating 95
Beuprez (COL) ACU rating 93
Green (WI) ACU rating 88
Nussle (IA) ACU rating 86
Ney (OH) ACU rating 86
Foley (FLA) ACU rating 78
Koly (AZ) ACU rating 74
Boelert (NY) ACU rating 40


Democrat Incumbent seats lost

None.


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Republican Incumbents Who Lost in the Senate:

Burns (MT) - ACU rating 91
Allen (VA) - ACU rating 92
Santorum (PA) - ACU rating 88
Talent (MO) - ACU rating 93
DeWine (OH) - ACU rating 80
Chafee (RI) - ACU rating 37


Democrat Incumbent seats lost

None.

[FreeReign]

Only Ben Nelson (D - Nebraska) bested the GOP's worst, the defeated Lincoln Chafee (37%).

Yep. There's more than a dimes worth of difference between the R's and the D's.

[onyx]

Here's all of them, listed by state.