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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: American Spirit who wrote (26262)	5/28/2004 10:37:30 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 81568

I purposely picked the high ADA ratings rather the his low rating from conservative groups because I figured you would just say the conservative groups are somehow distorting the picture. I do think the way these ratings are done that one or two years could give a wrong impression, but he's had consistently very high ADA ratings and consistently very low conservative ratings throughout his entire time in the Senate. His life time rating (and he has had a long enough run in the Senate for that to be meaningful) from the ADA is to the left of the ratings for Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Dennis Kucinich, and Moseley Braun. If you don't like the ADA ratings for some reason you can look at the National Journal's liberal-conservative continuum. Mr. Kerry compiled a composite liberal score for 2003 of 96.5, the highest in the Senate. Or we can look at the fact that he had the most liberal record among Senators on CQ Weekly's social issue rankings in 2002. Kennedy, Harkin and who else? Kerry is clearly to the center of them both. Kerry votes with Kennedy almost all the time and when he doesn't he has been slightly more likely to vote the the more liberal position. Tim

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