Rating Group: Radical Middle

2001-2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 75%
Barney Frank Other 75%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 70%
Dennis Kucinich Other 70%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 65%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 65%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 65%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 65%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 65%
Jonas Frost III Other 60%
Maurice Hinchey Other 60%
Joe Lieberman Other 60%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 60%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 60%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 60%
Lynn Woolsey Other 60%
Jon Corzine Other 55%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 55%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 55%
Dale Kildee Other 55%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 55%
Donald Payne Other 55%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 55%
Pete Stark Other 55%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 50%
Brian Baird Other 50%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 50%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 50%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 50%
Hillary Clinton Other 50%
Thomas Daschle Other 50%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 50%
Bill Delahunt Other 50%
Chris Dodd Other 50%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 50%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 50%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 50%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 50%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 50%
Christopher Shays Other 50%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 50%
Hilda Solis Other 50%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 50%
Evan Bayh Other 45%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 45%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 45%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 45%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 45%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 45%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 45%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 45%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 45%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 45%
Tom Lantos Other 45%
James Leach Other 45%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 45%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 45%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 45%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 45%
Jim Oberstar Other 45%
John Olver Other 45%
Major Owens Other 45%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 40%
Thomas Allen Other 40%
Jeff Bingaman Other 40%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 40%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 40%
Brad Carson Other 40%
Julia Carson Other 40%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 40%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 40%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 40%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 40%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 40%
Daniel Graham Other 40%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 40%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 40%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 40%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 40%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 40%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 40%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 40%
Steve Rothman Other 40%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 40%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 40%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 40%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 40%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 40%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 40%
Robert Wexler Other 40%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 35%
Douglas Bereuter Other 35%
Howard Berman Other 35%
John Breaux Other 35%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 35%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 35%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 35%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 35%
Philip English Other 35%
Bob Etheridge Other 35%
Russ Feingold Other 35%
Paul Gillmor Other 35%
James Greenwood Other 35%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 35%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 35%
Patrick Kennedy Other 35%
Nicholas Lampson Other 35%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 35%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 35%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 35%
Dennis Moore Other 35%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 35%
Rick Santorum Other 35%
Paul Sarbanes Other 35%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 35%
Vic Snyder Other 35%
Mark Souder Other 35%
Ed Towns Other 35%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 35%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 35%
David Wu Other 35%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 30%
Shelley Berkley Other 30%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 30%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 30%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 30%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 30%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 30%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 30%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 30%
Jerry Costello Other 30%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 30%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 30%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 30%
Vern Ehlers Other 30%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 30%
William Frist Other 30%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 30%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 30%
Melissa Hart Other 30%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 30%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 30%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 30%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 30%
Blanche Lincoln Other 30%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 30%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 30%
John McHugh Other 30%
Michael McNulty Other 30%
Martin Meehan Other 30%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 30%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 30%
Earl Pomeroy Other 30%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 30%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 30%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 30%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 30%
Tom Tancredo Other 30%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 30%
Anthony Weiner Other 30%
Albert Wynn Other 30%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 25%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 25%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 25%
Rick Boucher Other 25%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 25%
Robert Cramer Other 25%
Norm Dicks Other 25%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 25%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 25%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 25%
Lane Evans Other 25%
Mark Green Other 25%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 25%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 25%
Darlene Hooley Other 25%
Henry Hyde Other 25%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 25%
William Jefferson Other 25%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 25%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 25%
Steve LaTourette Other 25%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 25%
Dick Lugar Other 25%
Thomas William Osborne Other 25%
Todd Platts Other 25%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 25%
Denny Rehberg Other 25%
Mike Ross Other 25%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 25%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 25%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 25%
Olympia Snowe Other 25%
Ellen Tauscher Other 25%
Zach Wamp Other 25%
Diane Watson Other 25%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 25%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 20%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 20%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 20%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 20%
Thomas Davis III Other 20%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 20%
Peter Deutsch Other 20%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 20%
Byron Dorgan Other 20%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 20%
Mark Foley Other 20%
Elton Gallegly Other 20%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 20%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 20%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 20%
Jane Harman Other 20%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 20%
Daniel Inouye Other 20%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 20%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 20%
Nancy Johnson Other 20%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 20%
Herb Kohl Other 20%
Jon Kyl Other 20%
Ray LaHood Other 20%
Ron Lewis Other 20%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 20%
Robert Matsui Other 20%
Karen McCarthy Other 20%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 20%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 20%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 20%
Anne Northup Other 20%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 20%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 20%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 20%
John Peterson Other 20%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 20%
James Ramstad Other 20%
Silvestre Reyes Other 20%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 20%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 20%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 20%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 20%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 20%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 20%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 20%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 20%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 20%
Gordon Smith Other 20%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 20%
Charles Stenholm Other 20%
Bart Stupak Other 20%
Craig Thomas Other 20%
George Voinovich Other 20%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 20%
Gary Ackerman Other 15%
George Allen Other 15%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 15%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 15%
Judy Biggert Other 15%
Kit Bond Other 15%
Mary Bono Mack Other 15%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 15%
Jim Bunning Other 15%
Dan Burton Other 15%
Chris Cannon Other 15%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 15%
Mike Castle Other 15%
Randall Cunningham Other 15%
Jo Ann Davis Other 15%
James DeMint Other 15%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 15%
Jennifer Dunn Other 15%
John Edwards Other 15%
Chet Edwards Other 15%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 15%
Ernest Fletcher Other 15%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 15%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 15%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 15%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 15%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 15%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 15%
Robert Hayes Other 15%
Thomas Holden Other 15%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 15%
Kay Hutchison Other 15%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 15%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 15%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 15%
Sue Kelly Other 15%
Mark Kennedy Other 15%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 15%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 15%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 15%
Jerry Lewis Other 15%
John Linder Other 15%
William Lipinski Other 15%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 15%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 15%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 15%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 15%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 15%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 15%
Ben Nelson Other 15%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 15%
Doug Ose Other 15%
Michael Oxley Other 15%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 15%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 15%
Deborah Pryce Other 15%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 15%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 15%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 15%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 15%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 15%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 15%
Arlen Specter Other 15%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 15%
Ted Strickland Other 15%
John Sweeney Other 15%
William Tauzin Other 15%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 15%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 15%
James Turner Other 15%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 15%
James Walsh Other 15%
John Warner Other 15%
David Weldon Other 15%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 15%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 15%
Todd Akin Other 10%
Wayne Allard Other 10%
Cass Ballenger Other 10%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 10%
Charlie Bass Other 10%
Henry Bonilla Other 10%
Leonard Boswell Other 10%
Conrad Burns Other 10%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 10%
Michael Collins Other 10%
Kent Conrad Other 10%
Larry Craig Other 10%
Philip Crane Other 10%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 10%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 10%
James Davis Other 10%
Calvin Dooley Other 10%
John Doolittle Other 10%
David Dreier Other 10%
Michael Ferguson Other 10%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 10%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 10%
Porter Goss Other 10%
Judd Gregg Other 10%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 10%
Pete Hoekstra Other 10%
Kenny Hulshof Other 10%
Duncan Hunter Other 10%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 10%
Tim Johnson Other 10%
Ric Keller Other 10%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 10%
Gerald Kleczka Other 10%
James Kolbe Other 10%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 10%
Don Manzullo Other 10%
James McCrery III Other 10%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 10%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 10%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 10%
Alan Mollohan Other 10%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 10%
Jack Murtha Other 10%
Sue Myrick Other 10%
Robert William Ney Other 10%
Don Nickles Other 10%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 10%
James Nussle Other 10%
Dave Obey Other 10%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 10%
Richard Pombo Other 10%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 10%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 10%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 10%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 10%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 10%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 10%
Jim Ryun Other 10%
Edward Schrock Other 10%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 10%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 10%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 10%
Ike Skelton Other 10%
Nick Smith Other 10%
Ted Stevens Other 10%
John Sullivan Other 10%
John Sununu Other 10%
Gene Taylor Other 10%
William Thomas Other 10%
Todd Tiahrt Other 10%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 10%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 10%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 10%
Heather Wilson Other 10%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 5%
Bob Bennett Other 5%
Marion Berry Other 5%
Michael Bilirakis Other 5%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 5%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 5%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 5%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 5%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 5%
Steve Buyer Other 5%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 5%
Larry Combest Other 5%
Christopher Cox Other 5%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 5%
Barbara Cubin Other 5%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 5%
Thomas DeLay Other 5%
John Ensign Other 5%
Terry Everett Other 5%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 5%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 5%
Jim Gibbons Other 5%
Bart Gordon Other 5%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 5%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 5%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 5%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 5%
Joel Hefley Other 5%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 5%
Baron Hill Other 5%
David Lee Hobson Other 5%
Ernest Hollings Other 5%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 5%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 5%
Christopher John Other 5%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 5%
Paul Kanjorski Other 5%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 5%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 5%
Scott McInnis Other 5%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 5%
Ron Paul Other 5%
Jack Quinn Other 5%
George Radanovich Other 5%
Thomas Reynolds Other 5%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 5%
Jim Saxton Other 5%
John Shadegg Other 5%
Donald Sherwood Other 5%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 5%
Cliff Stearns Other 5%
John Tanner Other 5%
Charles Taylor Other 5%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 5%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 5%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 5%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 5%
Gerald Weller Other 5%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 5%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 5%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
Robert Byrd Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 0%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 0%
Ralph Regula Other 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 0%

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