538: Tulsi Gabbard's voting record makes her more CONSERVATIVE than 83% of House Dems.

[pnwmom]

despite her coming from blue Hawaii.

Some progressives might have the wrong impression of her because she endorsed Bernie. But she's voted to weaken gun control and to increase restrictions on refugees, among other non-progressive positions.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-tulsi-gabbard-could-win-the-2020-democratic-nomination/

Although she has voiced support for progressive positions like Medicare for all and free college tuition, her actual record skews moderate. She has broken from her party on votes to increase restrictions on refugees and weaken gun control. She has introduced legislation supported by GOP donor Sheldon Adelson and interviewed for a possible position in Trump’s Cabinet. She has a -0.280 DW-Nominate score, which measures politicians on a scale from -1 (most liberal) to 1 (most conservative) based on their congressional voting records. That made her more conservative than 83 percent of House Democrats in the 115th Congress.

[pecosbob]

1. Pretty much everything I've ever heard her say is garbage

[oberliner]

2. Around the same as Beto O'Rourke

[Hekate]

4. Facts and stats?

[oberliner]

6. Check the link at the 538 article in the OP

It has the DW-Nominate score for every House member. O"Rourke and Gabbard are within .02 of one another.

Gabbard is -0.28 and O'Rourke is -0.30

By comparison, Pelosi is -0.49. Maxine Waters is -0.65.

[pnwmom]

9. That comparison doesn't take into account how red a person's district is, compared

to their voting.

[Celerity]

11. here is the raw data pulled off the CSV file

https://voteview.com/data

set it to this and hit download data



the top is the most conservative House Democrat in the 115th Congress and on down





Here is another ideological database, even more widely used

GovTrack

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/report-cards/2017/party-house-democrat/ideology

2017 Report Cards
House Democrats / Ideology Score

These special year-end statistics dissect the legislative records of Members of Congress during the 2017 legislative year (Jan 3, 2017-Dec 31, 2017), looking at Members who served at the end of that period. This page was last updated on Jan 6, 2018.

HOUSE DEMOCRATS
most conservative

#1 0.71 Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN7]
#2 0.64 Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [D-AZ] now US Senator
#3 0.57 Rep. Henry Cuellar [D-TX28]
#4 0.54 Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI3]
#5 0.53 Rep. Josh Gottheimer [D-NJ5]
#6 0.53 Rep. Jim Costa [D-CA16]
#7 0.50 Rep. Kurt Schrader [D-OR5]
#8 0.47 Rep. Tom O’Halleran [D-AZ1]
#9 0.47 Rep. Vicente Gonzalez [D-TX15]
#10 0.45 Rep. John Delaney [D-MD6, 2013-2018]
#11 0.45 Rep. Gene Green [D-TX29, 1993-2018]
#12 0.45 Rep. Filemon Vela [D-TX34]
#13 0.44 Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN1, 2007-2018]
#14 0.44 Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL17] <<< have seen her mentioned as a possible future Speaker of the House
#15 0.44 Rep. A. Dutch Ruppersberger [D-MD2]
#16 0.44 Rep. Bradley Schneider [D-IL10]
#17 0.44 Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL3]
#18 0.44 Rep. Stephanie Murphy [D-FL7]
#19 0.44 Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA2]
#20 0.44 Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA2]
#21 0.44 Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA1]
#22 0.43 Rep. Ami Bera [D-CA7]
#23 0.43 Rep. David Scott [D-GA13]
#24 0.43 Rep. Jim Cooper [D-TN5]
#25 0.42 Rep. Brad Sherman [D-CA30]
#26 0.42 Rep. Terri Sewell [D-AL7]
#27 0.42 Rep. Luis Correa [D-CA46]
#28 0.42 Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH2]
#29 0.42 Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV] now US Senator
#30 0.42 Rep. John Larson [D-CT1]
#31 0.42 Rep. Peter Visclosky [D-IN1]
#32 0.42 Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA5]
#33 0.41 Rep. James Himes [D-CT4]
#34 0.41 Rep. Robert Brady [D-PA1, 1998-2018]
#35 0.41 Rep. Thomas Suozzi [D-NY3]
#36 0.41 Rep. Steny Hoyer [D-MD5]
#37 0.41 Rep. Nancy Pelosi [D-CA12] Speaker of the House
#38 0.40 Rep. Michael “Mike” Doyle [D-PA18]
#39 0.39 Rep. Elizabeth Esty [D-CT5, 2013-2018]
#40 0.39 Rep. Raul Ruiz [D-CA36]
#41 0.39 Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO5]
#42 0.39 Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT2]
#43 0.39 Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA6]
#44 0.38 Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA10]
#45 0.38 Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY4]
#46 0.38 Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS2]
#47 0.38 Rep. Richard Nolan [D-MN8, 2013-2018]
#48 0.38 Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR4]
#49 0.38 Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO7]
#50 0.37 Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA52]
#51 0.37 Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi [D-IL8]
#52 0.37 Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ8]
#53 0.37 Rep. Charlie Crist [D-FL13]
#54 0.37 Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH3]
#55 0.36 Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D-GU0, 2003-2018]
#56 0.36 Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA6]
#57 0.36 Rep. Tulsi Gabbard [D-HI2]
#58 0.36 Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ9]



Many big names (including newly elected Senators and Pelosi herself) score more conservative than Gabbard does on one or both datasets.

I am not a Tulsi fan overall (her Modi association really disturbs me and instantly disqualifies her for me), but I find it strange that so many who tilt centrist or moderate left are trying to hammer her as some sort of ideological 'damn-near Republican', when by their very own metrics they provide, she is less conservative than many they politically support, including Nancy Pelosi, on one of the databases.

[pnwmom]

8. Beto isn't part of the Chris Butler cult. So that's a big plus, compared to Tulsi. ALSO,

Beto is MORE progressive than the average voter in his RED state. Tulsi is to the RIGHT of her blue state constituents.

[obamanut2012]

10. wut?

[Cha]

3. TG has fooled a lot of people.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Hekate]

5. KnR. She's not just a DINO, she's more dangerous than that. nt

[Cha]

7. k