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In reply to the discussion: According to voting record, the top 10 most progressive members of the Senate. [View all]aikoaiko
(34,193 posts)13. Kind of. It's really a measure of cohort voting where the cohort is defined by a webapage
Using publicly published data from Congressional Quarterly, we averaged a couple of different types of scores that they published, looking at all votes going back to January 1, 1991. After going through a number of steps and gyrations, we came up with a list of eleven hard-core progressive United States Senators (11% of that body) and 37 hard-core progressive United States Representatives (about 9% of that body). The algorithm that we've used to come up with these progressive scores is as follows: We take ANY VOTE in which a majority of the progressives we've identified--so in the House say, if there were no absences, it would be 19 of 37--voted in opposition to a majority of the Republican caucus and have that vote qualify for the database. The same process is used in the Senate. So, non-ideological votes such as National Groundhog Day: 429-0 with 6 absences, do not qualify for the database. ANY vote in which a majority of progressives in the progressive cohort listed just below here votes against a majority of Republicans qualifies for the database and is included in the Overall % scores.
"The Progressive Position" by definition, is the position of the majority of the Progressives. The Conservative Position is the position of the majority of the Republicans. Weve tested this algorithm in the real world and it works extremely well. In the case of members of Congress elected before November 1990, the Progressive Lifetime Scores include only votes cast in Congress since January 1, 1991 (1991-92 was the first full Congress where vote records were computerized). In the case of members of Congress elected on or after November 1990, the scores include all votes that have ever been cast while that member has been in Congress. The column labeled Progressive 17-18 Scores is for the current Congress and shows scores for votes since January 2017, which allows for an apples-to-apples comparison for the same time period of all current members of Congress. For example, the total number of qualifying votes according to this criteria in 2007 was 747 in the House and 269 in the Senate. After we catch up with a programming backlog, we will post the specific roll call vote numbers of the votes that qualified for inclusion on Progressive Punch scores. The composite scores include ALL votes qualified by our algorithm, whether we've written the narrative vote descriptions that allow us to put them into categories or not. So the category scores can look different from the composite scores.
"The Progressive Position" by definition, is the position of the majority of the Progressives. The Conservative Position is the position of the majority of the Republicans. Weve tested this algorithm in the real world and it works extremely well. In the case of members of Congress elected before November 1990, the Progressive Lifetime Scores include only votes cast in Congress since January 1, 1991 (1991-92 was the first full Congress where vote records were computerized). In the case of members of Congress elected on or after November 1990, the scores include all votes that have ever been cast while that member has been in Congress. The column labeled Progressive 17-18 Scores is for the current Congress and shows scores for votes since January 2017, which allows for an apples-to-apples comparison for the same time period of all current members of Congress. For example, the total number of qualifying votes according to this criteria in 2007 was 747 in the House and 269 in the Senate. After we catch up with a programming backlog, we will post the specific roll call vote numbers of the votes that qualified for inclusion on Progressive Punch scores. The composite scores include ALL votes qualified by our algorithm, whether we've written the narrative vote descriptions that allow us to put them into categories or not. So the category scores can look different from the composite scores.
Which is to say that someone on the leftier end of the distribution of this cohort might score a little lower.
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According to voting record, the top 10 most progressive members of the Senate. [View all]
pnwmom
Aug 2017
OP
That is certainly interesting. I wonder how the fringe left will explain away this ranking.
LonePirate
Aug 2017
#5
Whatever they do, they won't blame it on Russian bots & planted social media. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2017
#59
The fringe left (those who voted Stein and the JPR types) are not friends of the Democratic Party.
LonePirate
Aug 2017
#77
Harris has a 98% and Sanders has a 95%. The differences among the top 20 in that list are trivial.
phleshdef
Aug 2017
#29
the claim is deceptive. This is only determining how often you voted party line when most
JCanete
Aug 2017
#91
Right. And look at the difference between the lowest scoring Dems and the highest scoring R.
pnwmom
Aug 2017
#9
Giving proof to the statement that any Democrat is better than any republican.
Salviati
Aug 2017
#21
Kind of. It's really a measure of cohort voting where the cohort is defined by a webapage
aikoaiko
Aug 2017
#13
You can look at the votes that they used in the ranking. They're being transparent. nt
pnwmom
Aug 2017
#18
I'm reminded of another list that had Schumer listed as the most progressive. LOL
Garrett78
Aug 2017
#17
Apples and oranges. There is no way to compare a record as state prosecutor and US Senator. n/t
pnwmom
Aug 2017
#23
Gillibrand was one of 5 senators, along with Markey and Warren of Massachusetts and
StevieM
Aug 2017
#84
Interesting to note the imperfect record on abortion for a number of A-, and B-rated progressives,
Ms. Toad
Aug 2017
#25
Durbin's, Feinstein's long term rating is 96.88 yet someone like Warren, OR Ted Cruz is N/A.
lunasun
Aug 2017
#55
I didn't check those two - but if they are N/A, they didn't vote on the bills being tracked.
Ms. Toad
Aug 2017
#57
So... tell me again... why do the haters hate her so much? (What's to hate?)
NurseJackie
Aug 2017
#37
What helps is that the person running against him is disliked even by Ohio's Repubs.
HughBeaumont
Aug 2017
#95
True but someone posted from that site last year and it had Booker near the top
Quixote1818
Aug 2017
#88
Progressive Punch lists all the votes that they used to come up with their numbers,
pnwmom
Aug 2017
#90
I have difficulty believing the divisivness regarding so-called liberal fringe, etc. is...
TryLogic
Aug 2017
#69
I knew My Sen, -Tammy Baldwing would be on that list. My other one is a vile Tea bagger-Ron Johnson
riversedge
Aug 2017
#73
Take note all the people here who hate on Corey Booker as being too much of a sellout
MrPurple
Aug 2017
#82
it's a bullshit claim based on metrics that don't prove this at all. They show how often somebody
JCanete
Aug 2017
#93
Of the major parties, Democratic party IS the progressive party. I hesitate to even use the word
pnwmom
Aug 2017
#103
Not again. The problem with this, as I mentioned before when this was posted, is the way
JCanete
Aug 2017
#87
The problem with your point of view is that terms like "progressive" are always relative.
pnwmom
Aug 2017
#102
none of what you said justifies the methodology for determining a "progressive" record. I have
JCanete
Aug 2017
#106