Saturday, June 16, 2007
Barack Obama: "Most liberal member of Congress"
A loyal Creeder Reader sent me a link to the following story. It is most interesting, to say the least. To wit:
"The most liberal member of Congress running for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination isn't Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio.
"It's Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. ...
"Those are among the interesting findings in a recent analysis of votes by all the members of Congress who are running for president.
"The study, released this month by the National Journal, a respected inside-the-Beltway research report, will help voters cut through the spin and hype of TV sound bites in coming months and judge these candidates for themselves.
"On the Democratic side, the analysis of 'lifetime' voting records shows Obama with the most liberal ranking with a score of 84.3 after two full years in the Senate. Under the National Journal's ratings formula, that means Obama's record was more liberal than 84.3 percent of his Senate colleagues."
The most liberal score possible in the National Journal's congressional ranking is 99. The lifetime liberal scores for the other Democratic presidential cadidates, in their respective chambers, are as follows:
- Rep. Dennis Kucinich, 79.4
- Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, 79.2
- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, 78.8
- Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, 76.8
"The most liberal member of Congress running for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination isn't Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio.
"It's Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. ...
"Those are among the interesting findings in a recent analysis of votes by all the members of Congress who are running for president.
"The study, released this month by the National Journal, a respected inside-the-Beltway research report, will help voters cut through the spin and hype of TV sound bites in coming months and judge these candidates for themselves.
"On the Democratic side, the analysis of 'lifetime' voting records shows Obama with the most liberal ranking with a score of 84.3 after two full years in the Senate. Under the National Journal's ratings formula, that means Obama's record was more liberal than 84.3 percent of his Senate colleagues."
The most liberal score possible in the National Journal's congressional ranking is 99. The lifetime liberal scores for the other Democratic presidential cadidates, in their respective chambers, are as follows:
- Rep. Dennis Kucinich, 79.4
- Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, 79.2
- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, 78.8
- Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, 76.8
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Saturday, June 16, 2007 
