National Journal did a phony study, that only looked at ONE year (when he was out campaigning for President most of the time, anyway).
A scholarly study --- just out --- and examining his ENTIRE Senate career (all 20 years, not just one), ranks Kerry in the middle of all Democrats:
"In his 20 years in the Senate, Kerry has accumulated a voting record that puts him almost smack in the middle of his Democratic Senate colleagues, according to an authoritative analysis of congressional votes by professors Keith T. Poole of the University of Houston and Howard Rosenthal of Princeton. Kerry is to the right of his Massachusetts' colleague Edward Kennedy, to the right of Sen. Hillary Clinton, and even to the right of his Massachusetts predecessor, the late Sen. Paul Tsongas, who won fame as a "neo-liberal" moderate devoted to fiscal responsibility."
Kerry's mixed Senate record makes him hard to pigeonhole
By James Kuhnhenn
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Posted on Wed, Oct. 20, 2004
(Over 6,300 Senate votes examined.)
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