On Nov 9, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
The popularity of Obama now seems like a harbinger and less of a
"bubble phenomena" as has been posited here.
Isn't Obama actually one of the more liberal members of the Senate?
This ranking actually has him to the left of Hillary, Kerry and
Feinstein!
http://voteview.com/sen109.htm <http://voteview.com/sen109.htm>
<G> Oh that is funny! Only one republican is more liberal than only
one democrat.
Seems pretty artificial.
Looks like crap to me.......who the heck are these guys?
Nevermind, I looked them up in whois. They are registered anonymously,
so they most likely are scumbags who should not be taken seriously.
(I do whois lookups all the time and anonymous registrations are a bad
sign.)
GWYDK: I Googled "voteview.com" and came up with this page at UCSD (and
we _know_ the kinds of whackos come out of San Diego):
http://k7moa.com/
Which is a wrapper around this page:
http://voteview.com/bio.htm
A couple of Dr. Poole's papers, especially "Polarized America: The Dance
of Ideology and Unequal Riches" (linked from the above page) doesn't
strike me as particularly slanted, although he does seem to attempt to
link the increasing polarization of American politics to income
inequality, which seems a little lefty to me.
If he has a bias, it would appear to be towards seeing extremes of
polarization. The nearly perfect red-vs-blue nature of the list that JDG
brought to our attention would support that.
Dave
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