National Journal: McCollum had the most liberal voting record in 2008

Posted at 11:08 PM on February 26, 2009 by Tom Scheck (2 Comments)

The National Journal just released its vote ratings for 2008.

DFL Rep. Betty McCollum is tied for having the most liberal voting record in the House.
DFL Rep. Keith Ellison had the 13th most liberal voting record.
DFL Rep. Jim Oberstar had the 35th most liberal voting record.
DFL Rep. Tim Walz had the 175th most liberal voting record.
DFL Rep. Collin Peterson had the 210th most liberal voting record.

GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann is the 31st most conservative.
GOP Rep. John Kline is the 33rd most conservative.
GOP Rep. Jim Ramstad was the 193rd most conservative.

On the Senate side...

DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar had the 37th most liberal voting record.

GOP Sen. Norm Coleman had the 39th most conservative voting record.

You can find all of the info here.

Comments (2)

Is this the same group that said Kerry and Obama had the most liberal voting records in the Senate because they didn't take into account all the votes they missed while they were campaigning for President?

Posted by Chris | February 27, 2009 1:55 AM

Look a bit further into those National Journal rankings ( http://www.nationaljournal.com/2008voteratings ) and find that McCollum is tied for 1st with 11 others, Ellison is tied for 13th (or 2nd, by the numbers) with 7 others. To get this sort of imprecision suggests some pretty useless methodology. It should be great for challenging candidates, though. Think how many (12 in fact) can rant, "my opponent is the most Liberal in the whole Congress" in 2010 - assuming, of course, folks are still interested in that sort of complaint by then.

Posted by peter hill | February 27, 2009 2:33 PM

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