Rankings Of Most Liberal And Conservative Politicians Show ‘Very Stark Partisan Divide’
On Friday’s Jansing & Co., host Chris Jansing spoke with Reid Wilson of the National Journal Hotline to learn which members of the House and Senate ranked as the most conservative and most liberal.
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“What surprises me,” said Wilson, “is the number of names on the list… 19 Democrats ranked as the most liberal and 10 Republicans ranked as the most conservative. That tells me that the parties are becoming a lot more homogeneous; they’re voting a lot more like… There’s fewer crossover voters. In the Senate, not a single Democrat is more conservative than the most liberal Republican, and not a single Republican is more liberal than the most conservative Democrat. So we’ve got this very stark partisan divide, and I think it just speaks to the level of partisanship we’ve seen on Capitol Hill over the last several years. ”
The issue of ranking came up during Wednesday’s GOP debate, as Jansing pointed out, with Rick Santorum pointing out that Ron Paul is ranked as the 145th most conservative (/3rd most liberal) Republican. “Some of the conservative ratings,” Paul had replied, “you have to realize, sometimes conservatives want to spend money, too. You can’t just go by the ratings.”
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