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Ok - I went to the lifetime average scorecard - what am I missing? Because he isn’t in the 90% percentile? Hey Larry Craig from Idaho is - and you’re saying you’d rather have a gay felon over McCain? Sure there are going to be super far righters. However, when you have real heroes like Hagel, Graham and McCain over 80% and you’re bashing them then where do you stop? These guys are true Americans and so what the Conservative Union doesn’t give them the ultimate highs - there are a ton of Republicans listed like those from Maine and Alaska a lot lower

Lifetime score card, huh?
yay, I see that a lot, and its really misleading.
There are 2 off-hand reasons I'll provide, but any highschool statistics & probability course would show many more problems with treating a "lifetime score" (read: average) as particularly meaningful. Its an ok thumbnail, or 1st approx.

BTW, I'm accessing the net via pda, and its got a tiny buffer, so I abbreviate a lot.

Ex.s:
1) did you know that there were years McC didn't break 70%? Since you state you only looked at the average, I guess not.
2) Issues aren't weighted, so a Conservative vote on a minor bill, or one pre-doomed is the same as voting against McCain-Feingold.

In highschool, does a 1st-yr B still count more than a 4th-yr B? (I'm over 60, so high school was a little while ago[wink]) This is called "frontloading", and colleges do it all the time. Does the CU? Don't take it for granted... Those trying to render the Constitution irrelevent are counting on most everyone taking key things just that way.

Look, I'm old, but contrary to rumors, Its not true I actually knew any of the Founding Fathers... I've just read all their stuff. They stated time & again that Liberty required work; "constant vigilence" did not refer only to external enemies -- it applies even more to those who are always saying "My Friends!" and hug you with a dagger.
They also wrote that one reason to use onerous taxation was to make sure the electorate's free time was taken up earning a living... except for the "kept" classes. They'd get lots of free time so they could protest in favor of increasing the gov.'s power.

Lunch is up! Got to go!

BTW, GerardKempf, I'll overlook the snotty "rather have a gay crook" comment -- I know you're operating from abismal ignorance. [grin]