How Partisan?
Want to know how partisan your current member of congress is? Wonder how often he or she votes with their party?
Jessica McBride has a link up to the Hill Monitor, where you can get that information.
For instance, Barack Obama, Senator from Illinois, mentioned this weekend that he's mulling a run for President, and is consistently praised in the Illinois media for independence. If you read the Hill Monitor Loyalty Rankings to check his independence they show he voted along party lines 94.97% of the time. That's more often than Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy. Of course, he's got the State's senior Senator, Dick Durbin to emulate, who was just a tick ahead at 95%.
The rankings are interesting to look through if you want a way to get past the hype of the current crop of TV commericals. For instance, Mark Kirk who represents a district just south of me has been getting beat up by Dan Seals, his opponent for always voting with Bush. However, the "Loyalty Report" puts Kirk in the bottom 20% of Republican's for "party loyalty" along voting lines.
Technorati Tags: Obama, Pelosi, Durbin, Partisan Politics, Hill Monitor, Jessica McBride, Dan Seals, Mark Kirk
Jessica McBride has a link up to the Hill Monitor, where you can get that information.
For instance, Barack Obama, Senator from Illinois, mentioned this weekend that he's mulling a run for President, and is consistently praised in the Illinois media for independence. If you read the Hill Monitor Loyalty Rankings to check his independence they show he voted along party lines 94.97% of the time. That's more often than Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy. Of course, he's got the State's senior Senator, Dick Durbin to emulate, who was just a tick ahead at 95%.
The rankings are interesting to look through if you want a way to get past the hype of the current crop of TV commericals. For instance, Mark Kirk who represents a district just south of me has been getting beat up by Dan Seals, his opponent for always voting with Bush. However, the "Loyalty Report" puts Kirk in the bottom 20% of Republican's for "party loyalty" along voting lines.
Technorati Tags: Obama, Pelosi, Durbin, Partisan Politics, Hill Monitor, Jessica McBride, Dan Seals, Mark Kirk
posted by Crazy Politico at 6:00 AM
1Comments:
To the MSM it's real easy. If you are a partisan Republican you support the GOP. If you're a partisan Democrat you support the DEM. If you are non-partisan you also support the DEM because the GOP is 100% partisan. There is no other explanation.
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