It's easier but it omits information. ADA votes are weighted equally, so a vote on a war is on a par with a votes of lesser import. A raw voting score also glosses over high-profile, politically-crucial votes. It also glosses over votes that are close, where the marginal vote makes a bigger difference.
In raw terms JL looks pretty good in the ADA index. Put aside the war and Israel, and as Democrats go IMO there is not much more fuel for a left-jihad against him than for any number of other Dems in Congress. mbs -----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 1:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Last Lieberman Lament? isn't it easier to look at the ADA and the Union of Conservative Assholes ratings? On 8/11/06, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At around 11/8/06 11:48 am, Michael Hoover wrote: > > > > Lieberman's record of approximately 90% "party line" votes in the > > Senate includes (as it does for all members) those in which the two > > parties have taken the same position. About 40% of the votes for the > > years that I've looked at thus far fall into this category. Put > > another way, he votes about 40% of the time with Republicans (as do > > many other Democratic senators). > > > > But more interesting (than your last sentence), if I am getting your > numbers right (and doing my math right), his "real" party line voting > reduces to 83% i.e., when there is a conflict, he sides with the > Republicans 17% of the time. Is this right? Do you plan to publish your > findings somewhere? > > Thanks, > > --ravi > > -- > Support something better than yourself: ;-) > PeTA: http://www.peta.org/ > GreenPeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/ > If you have nothing better to do: http://platosbeard.org/ > -- Jim Devine / "It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why an economist may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense...." -- Joseph Schumpeter [edited]
