Posted on 07/25/2024 8:57:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
GovTrack, an organization that tracks voting records in Congress, yanked its 2019 rating that pegged then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as the most liberal member of the upper chamber – after several media outlets including The Post cited the statistic in stories on the presumed Democratic presidential nominee.
The website pulled down its 2019 ranking on Monday evening after it got renewed attention in the wake of President Biden’s seismic decision to drop out of the 2024 race on Sunday, its founder confirmed to The Post.
GovTrack had previously determined in its single-year “report card” for 2019 that she was the most ideological to the left member of the upper chamber based on her legislative behavior.
At the time, she was ranked even further to the left of Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) – the latter of whom is typically considered the most left-leaning senator, including in the most recent metric available from GovTrack.
The group’s founder Joshua Tauberer, who created the website when he was a college student in 2004, said the ranking in question was based on a single calendar year and that the organization “discontinued” those types of “report cards” several years back.
“We determined that the limited data available in a single year was not sufficient to create a reliable portrait of the activity of legislators, particularly given the ebbs and flows of the legislative calendar, and therefore did not serve as a useful tool to our users and the American public,” he told The Post.
“We subsequently took down the previously published single-calendar-year statistics for the same reason.”
Tauberer previously warned in 2020 that GovTrack’s 2019 ranking of Harris was not reliable,
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Let me guess. He was threatened.
In other words a check was sent and he followed what he was told. Gotta admit the attempted whitewashing is something. Luckily Elon owns Twitter and Tik Tok has a ton of conservative accounts to make sure the masses hear it out.
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The website rated Harris the “most liberal compared to all senators” in 2019. Harris became vice president in January 2021.
What else was Harris in 2019?
The 3rd most absent in votes vs. all Senators.
Held the fewest committee positions vs. Senate Sophomores.
And joined bipartisan bills the least often vs. other Senate Democrats.
Into the memory hole!
The original link to the page leads to a “Page Not Found” error. The last person to share the link to the original on X without noting its removal was mid-afternoon Wednesday.
The website rated Harris the “most liberal compared to all senators” in 2019. Harris became vice president in January 2021.
What else was Harris in 2019?
The 3rd most absent in votes vs. all Senators.
Held the fewest committee positions vs. Senate Sophomores.
And joined bipartisan bills the least often vs. other Senate Democrats.
Into the memory hole!
And just like that, actual history is no longer actual history. Truth-Smear Merchants are on the job.
How the hell can we fight people who will not listen? I just ran into a bunch of idiots who were ordering food like me at a food truck. They were saying it was glass not a bullet on July 13 that made 45 bleed. After i ordered my food I asked them why they thought it was glass. NOTHING. No cogent response. But desperately incurious when I asked what killed Corey the attendee. Totally incurious when i asked who crooks was aiming at. What can we do with these liars and idiots??? Reasoning is out!
You knew what’s f#%king sad? They were southern boys.
Sorry for the rant I’m just livid.
Tauberer and his then wife-to-be, Leah Schloss, in 2019.
"Ms. Schloss, 31, is a counsel for defense, national security, government contracts and cybersecurity in the Washington office of the law firm WilmerHale."
Exactly and the only reason she was even remotely considered presidential was a few questions she asked Brett Kavanaugh luckily the Internet remembers
Because they're ruled by their emotions, reason left town long ago. For them, voting is a form of entertainment.
We should have a separate pretend election just for these clowns and leave the real voting to the grown-ups.
Orwellian. Kamala Harris decided to shake hands with Netanyahu today. He was supposed to be the enemy.
So-called “americans” are real idiots.
Winston Smith was here!
We should...thanks that’s funny!!
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We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way.
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