Saturday, February 28th, 2009...12:07 pm
Lazy Posting: National Journal Liberal/Conservative Ratings
The National Journal has released their 2008 Vote Ratings. The results are really no surprise, but after the jump are the ratings for the Arizona delegation, broken up by “issue categories”. I’ll post the Senate ratings later.
Note: The ratings are percentiles, so a member having a rating of 75 would be have a more liberal voting record than three quarters of his or her collegues.
ECONOMY:
- Raúl Grijalva (D – Tucson): 85
- Ed Pastor (D – Phoenix): 85
- Gabrielle Giffords (D – Tucson): 52
- Harry Mitchell (D – Tempe): 51
- Rick Renzi (R – Flagstaff): 37
- John Shadegg (R – Phoenix): 2
- Jeff Flake (R – Mesa): 0
- Trent Franks (R – Glendale): 0
Grijalva and Pastor tied with 63 others for most liberal. Flake and Franks tied with six others for least liberal.
SOCIAL:
- Grijalva (D): 82
- Pastor (D): 82
- Mitchell (D): 48
- Giffords (D): 48
- Renzi (R): 38
- Flake (R): 0
- Franks (R): 0
- Shadegg (R): 0
Grijalva and Pastor tied with 78 others for most liberal. Flake, Franks and Shadegg tied with 42 others for least liberal.
FOREIGN POLICY:
- Grijalva (D): 92
- Pastor (D): 78
- Mitchell (D): 58
- Giffords (D): 55
- Flake (R): 22
- Renzi (R): 17
- Shadegg (R): 5
- Franks (R): 0
Grijalva tied with 35 others for most liberal. Franks tied with 20 others for least liberal.
COMPOSITE (With Rank in Parenthesis):
- Grijalva (D): 93.2 (1, tied with 12 others)
- Pastor (D): 88.0 (30, tied with 3 others)
- Mitchell (D): 52.7 (206, tied with Mike McIntyre, D – North Carolina)
- Giffords (D): 52.3 (208, tied with Charlie Melancon, D – Louisiana)
- Renzi (R): 31.0 (284, tied with Gus Bilrakis, R – Florida)
- Flake (R): 9.8 (398, tied with Jim Jordan, R – Ohio)
- Shadegg (R): 4.3 (418)
- Franks (R): 2.7 (425, tied with two others for least liberal)
3 Comments
February 28th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
And Kirkpatrick is a conservative Democrat. The biggest thing that may change will be the flavor of the votes, in that she’s an honest Democrat whereas Renzi was a crooked Republican, but the votes themselves may not change much.
March 1st, 2009 at 4:17 pm
While a 2008 version has not been released, a superior methodology for ranking liberal-ness and conserative-ness among elected officials is compiled by Electoral Vote.
See http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2009/House/lib_house_ratings-2007.html
There’s also a composite score by conservative groups.
Neither system, btw, portrayed Senator Obama as the most liberal in 2007. Not even close.
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:55 am
What a coincidence. I’ve always thought Trent Franks was a zero too.