Reply #130: Psst. Gephardt's ADA LQ was 50. [View All]

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He missed half of the twenty votes the ADA judged, but voted with the "ADA" Democrats on the ones he showed up for.

Edwards made it for 12 of the 20, and voted with the ADA Democrats for all of them.

Kerry only made five of the votes and scored a 25.

By your measure, Kucinich should be your pick because he scored a 90, missing only 2 of the 20 votes (and, like every other Democrat in Congress who ran for president in 2004, voted with the ADA on all the ones he voted on).

But, obviously, if you looked into the facts upon which you base your opinion, you would know that the only thing this ADA score says about the '04 candidates is how they managed to balance running for president with voting (and you can be sure that, if their votes were needed, they would have canceled whatever else they were doing).