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NATIONAL JOURNAL: Obama: Most Liberal in Congress
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by politisite | January 31, 2008 at 03:32 pm
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So you do have a choice. Obama is the Most Liberal, Clinton comes in 16th. What about the rest? Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, the lone House member still in the presidential race, is the178th-most-conservative lawmaker in that chamber in 2007. His libertarian views placed him close to the center of the House in both the social issues and foreign-policy categories. He registered more conservative on economic issues.
John McCain? He didn't get a composite score for 2007 because he missed too many votes.
Well at least you have a choice on the Democratic side. The Republicans have 2 left that could score and McCain wasn't around enough to rate.
By Brian Friel, Richard E. Cohen and Kirk Victor, National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was the most liberal senator in 2007, according to National Journal's 27th annual vote ratings. The insurgent presidential candidate shifted further to the left last year in the run-up to the primaries, after ranking as the 16th- and 10th-most-liberal during his first two years in the Senate.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., the other front-runner in the Democratic presidential race, also shifted to the left last year. She ranked as the 16th-most-liberal senator in the 2007 ratings, a computer-assisted analysis that used 99 key Senate votes, selected by NJ reporters and editors, to place every senator on a liberal-to-conservative scale in each of three issue categories. In 2006, Clinton was the 32nd-most-liberal senator.
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at 11:28 on February 1st, 2008
Once in the White House, though, all bets could well be off, as the winner will be beholden to some seriously big donors.
at 11:36 on February 1st, 2008
Jordan:
I am actually working on a story about that. I hear Obama say that Republicans are in the oil companies pocket and this is true. But go to opensecrets.org and see the three candidates that are trying to get some for of universal healthcare have Hospitals, Pharms, Doctors, and Insurance as the largest donors.. it makes one wonder. The biggest recipients in order: Clinton, Obama, and Romney. There is more. McCain, Campaign finance reform himself, has large donors as well. Both sides have issues and I will do my best to bring out all. Thanks for marking this story as, "good stuff"
Al