Hatch will get re-elected. He’s not perfect, but he has a perfect conservative voting record. 100% from the American Conservative Union. That’s probably better than the senator from your state.
Chaffetz got a 69%.
Hatch’s voting record is a lot more conservative than his challenger.
People like Hatch are masters at the kind of manipulations of legislation that allow him to simultaneously improve his ACU score while betraying conservatives. They are several steps ahead in this game, skills gained after decades in office.
As a general rule, if someone's been in political office longer than a dozen years, they are extremely likely to be part of the problem, not the solution.
Which tells everyone what they need to know about the ACU rating system
Chaffetz got 100% from the ACU.
Chaffetz (100) has a higher lifetime rating than Hatch (89). Hatch has the same lifetime rating as Lindsey Graham.
Frankly, that is an ignorant take on things.
Hatch has a lifetime 88 ACU rating - he's started voting in lockstep with the ACU in preparation for this election, because he knew he'd be targeted for his liberal past.
He figures if he gets his scores up he can fool the idiot voters who don't know any better. There are a lot of suckers out there who will believe that Sharron Angle is a great candidate or that Orrin Hatch is a conservative hero.
The lifetime ACU rating I've seen for Chaffetz is 100%.
But, as you should know, ACU ratings are imperfect at best.
Orrin Hatch is the epitome of the Senate compromiser -- not a fair compromise where we get incremental improvement, but a mindset where conservatives are urged to adopt a moderately liberal position because Orrin & his friends on the other side of the aisle think it'll be so much better for America if we burn slowly rather than quickly.