Rating Group: Radical Middle

2003-2004 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 15%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 10%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 5%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 5%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 20%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 20%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 5%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 35%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 5%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 35%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 10%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 10%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 35%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 30%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 25%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 45%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 20%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 50%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 35%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 60%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 40%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 50%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 5%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 50%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 10%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 60%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 40%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 15%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 35%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 50%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 10%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 15%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 15%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 20%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 25%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 15%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 20%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 5%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 10%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 25%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 45%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 40%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 30%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 20%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 30%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 35%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 35%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 10%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 5%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 15%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 5%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 10%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 40%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 5%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 10%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 5%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 15%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 25%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 5%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 10%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 25%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 10%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 15%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 10%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 30%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 50%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 20%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 10%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 10%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 5%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 5%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 5%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 65%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 35%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 20%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 25%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 30%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 40%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 15%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 25%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 5%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 25%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 20%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 10%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 30%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 10%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 20%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 5%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 35%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 10%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 25%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 50%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 30%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 45%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 25%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 10%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 15%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 20%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 5%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 15%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 35%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 50%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 50%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 35%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 35%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 25%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 20%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 40%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 20%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 30%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 15%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 15%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 25%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 15%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 45%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 10%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 15%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 5%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 25%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 10%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 25%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 15%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 25%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 30%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 10%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 25%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 20%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 20%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 5%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 55%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 5%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 20%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 10%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 25%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 20%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 30%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 15%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 20%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 15%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 35%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 5%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 30%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 30%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 15%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 25%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 35%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 15%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 15%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 10%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 20%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 25%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 15%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 25%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 5%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 35%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 50%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 35%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 30%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 25%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 30%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 30%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 25%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 40%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 5%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 5%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 10%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 25%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 5%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 15%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 10%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 40%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 15%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 5%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 5%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 30%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 25%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 75%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 20%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 5%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 20%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 10%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 10%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 15%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 30%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 15%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 25%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 30%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 40%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 5%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 15%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 20%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 40%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 15%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 10%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 35%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 10%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 5%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 5%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 5%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 5%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 10%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 5%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 5%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 15%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 15%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 15%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 40%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 5%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 5%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 5%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 15%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 20%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 10%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 15%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 15%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 0%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 25%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 20%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 5%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 15%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 10%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 60%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 25%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 35%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 15%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 40%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 45%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 25%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 10%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 55%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 55%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 35%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 35%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 5%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 20%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 5%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 30%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 10%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 10%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 10%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 30%
Gary Ackerman Other 30%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 25%
Todd Akin Other 5%
Wayne Allard Other 15%
George Allen Other 5%
Thomas Allen Other 45%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 10%
Brian Baird Other 35%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 5%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 10%
Charlie Bass Other 20%
Evan Bayh Other 25%
Bob Beauprez Other 15%
Bob Bennett Other 10%
Shelley Berkley Other 30%
Howard Berman Other 30%
Marion Berry Other 25%
Judy Biggert Other 25%
Michael Bilirakis Other 30%
Jeff Bingaman Other 25%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 50%
Kit Bond Other 15%
Henry Bonilla Other 5%
Mary Bono Mack Other 15%
Leonard Boswell Other 30%
Rick Boucher Other 15%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 20%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 15%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 20%
Jim Bunning Other 20%
Conrad Burns Other 15%
Dan Burton Other 10%
Steve Buyer Other 10%
Robert Byrd Other 10%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Dennis Cardoza Other 30%
Julia Carson Other 20%
Edward Case Other 40%
Mike Castle Other 45%
Ben Chandler III Other 5%
Chris Chocola Other 5%
Hillary Clinton Other 40%
Norm Coleman Other 30%
Kent Conrad Other 10%
Jon Corzine Other 35%
Jerry Costello Other 15%
Christopher Cox Other 25%
Larry Craig Other 5%
Robert Cramer Other 25%
Barbara Cubin Other 10%
Randall Cunningham Other 20%
Artur Davis Other 20%
James Davis Other 30%
Jo Ann Davis Other 15%
Lincoln Davis Other 10%
Thomas Davis III Other 15%
Bill Delahunt Other 20%
Thomas DeLay Other 10%
James DeMint Other 15%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 10%
Norm Dicks Other 15%
Chris Dodd Other 20%
Elizabeth Dole Other 10%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
John Doolittle Other 5%
Byron Dorgan Other 25%
David Dreier Other 25%
Vern Ehlers Other 40%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 25%
Philip English Other 40%
John Ensign Other 20%
Bob Etheridge Other 25%
Lane Evans Other 20%
Terry Everett Other 5%
Tom Feeney Other 5%
Russ Feingold Other 15%
Michael Ferguson Other 15%
Mark Foley Other 25%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 30%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 10%
Barney Frank Other 50%
William Frist Other 5%
Elton Gallegly Other 20%
Jim Gibbons Other 10%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 40%
Paul Gillmor Other 25%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 10%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 15%
Bart Gordon Other 20%
Mark Green Other 15%
Judd Gregg Other 15%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 5%
Jane Harman Other 15%
Katherine Harris Other 20%
Melissa Hart Other 15%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 5%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 10%
Joel Hefley Other 5%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 5%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 5%
Maurice Hinchey Other 45%
David Lee Hobson Other 10%
Pete Hoekstra Other 5%
Thomas Holden Other 5%
Darlene Hooley Other 25%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Kenny Hulshof Other 5%
Duncan Hunter Other 10%
Kay Hutchison Other 10%
Henry Hyde Other 30%
Daniel Inouye Other 15%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 5%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 30%
William Jefferson Other 30%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 30%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 15%
Nancy Johnson Other 45%
Tim Johnson Other 20%
Paul Kanjorski Other 5%
Ric Keller Other 5%
Sue Kelly Other 40%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 30%
Mark Kennedy Other 10%
Patrick Kennedy Other 25%
Dale Kildee Other 15%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 30%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 20%
Herb Kohl Other 20%
James Kolbe Other 25%
Dennis Kucinich Other 25%
Jon Kyl Other 10%
Ray LaHood Other 30%
Tom Lantos Other 50%
Steve LaTourette Other 20%
James Leach Other 60%
Jerry Lewis Other 15%
Ron Lewis Other 5%
Joe Lieberman Other 65%
Blanche Lincoln Other 30%
John Linder Other 10%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 15%
Dick Lugar Other 50%
Don Manzullo Other 10%
Jim Marshall Other 0%
Robert Matsui Other 30%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 10%
James McCrery III Other 10%
John McHugh Other 10%
Michael McNulty Other 30%
Martin Meehan Other 30%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 15%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 40%
Brad Miller Other 10%
Alan Mollohan Other 5%
Dennis Moore Other 35%
Jack Murtha Other 5%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 15%
Sue Myrick Other 10%
Ben Nelson Other 25%
Robert William Ney Other 5%
Anne Northup Other 15%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 5%
James Nussle Other 5%
Jim Oberstar Other 30%
Dave Obey Other 5%
John Olver Other 50%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 5%
Thomas William Osborne Other 25%
Major Owens Other 20%
Michael Oxley Other 15%
Ron Paul Other 10%
Donald Payne Other 45%
John Peterson Other 15%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 25%
Todd Platts Other 50%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 30%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 15%
Deborah Pryce Other 25%
George Radanovich Other 5%
James Ramstad Other 30%
Ralph Regula Other 15%
Denny Rehberg Other 15%
Richard Renzi Other 15%
Silvestre Reyes Other 15%
Thomas Reynolds Other 5%
Mike Ross Other 20%
Steve Rothman Other 30%
Jim Ryun Other 15%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 20%
Rick Santorum Other 25%
Paul Sarbanes Other 15%
Jim Saxton Other 15%
John Shadegg Other 5%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 25%
Christopher Shays Other 55%
Donald Sherwood Other 5%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 35%
Ike Skelton Other 5%
Gordon Smith Other 30%
Olympia Snowe Other 45%
Vic Snyder Other 40%
Hilda Solis Other 25%
Mark Souder Other 25%
Arlen Specter Other 15%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 25%
Pete Stark Other 20%
Cliff Stearns Other 10%
Ted Stevens Other 20%
Ted Strickland Other 15%
Bart Stupak Other 15%
John Sullivan Other 0%
John Sununu Other 5%
John Sweeney Other 10%
James Talent Other 5%
Tom Tancredo Other 20%
John Tanner Other 20%
Ellen Tauscher Other 50%
Charles Taylor Other 10%
Gene Taylor Other 15%
Craig Thomas Other 5%
William Thomas Other 5%
Todd Tiahrt Other 15%
Ed Towns Other 40%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 35%
George Voinovich Other 5%
James Walsh Other 30%
Zach Wamp Other 15%
John Warner Other 10%
Diane Watson Other 35%
Anthony Weiner Other 15%
David Weldon Other 15%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 20%
Gerald Weller Other 30%
Robert Wexler Other 45%
Heather Wilson Other 30%
Lynn Woolsey Other 60%
David Wu Other 25%
Albert Wynn Other 35%

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