Breaking! Al Franken Appears To Be Somewhat Liberal
That’s based on an analysis of his 12 recorded Senate votes, courtesy of Simon Jackman, who supplies the lovely graph above. You can also see how far to the left Specter has moved at this point, in line with the research I discussed a while back.
Comments
Why is Leiberman listed as a Democrat?
Posted by: Ted | July 13, 2009 09:47 PM
Lieberman is an oversight, I’m sure. Imagine him green in the meantime.
Posted by: John Sides | July 13, 2009 10:06 PM
Interesting that 1) Reid positions himself nearly perfectly at the center of the Democrats (thumbs up for Truman’s “middleman [sic] theory” of congressional leadership, and 2) that fully one-third of the Democrats appear be more liberal than Bernie Sanders.
Posted by: Sarah | July 14, 2009 11:35 AM
Interesting how a lot more Democrats seems to have a rating between 0 and -0.5 as compared to Republicans with rating under 0.5, even after accounting for more democrats. In fact there are more Republicans with ratings over 1 than Democrats with ratings more partisan than -1.
Posted by: Abhinav | July 15, 2009 02:13 PM