Obama Ranked Most Liberal Senator in 2007
(Fox News) - Barack Obama ranked as the most liberal senator of 2007, according to newly released National Journal ratings.
National Journal has tabulated the rankings of U.S. senators and representatives based on their votes for the last 27 years, and found that in 2007 both Obama and his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination Hillary Clinton shifted to the left in the run-up to the primaries.
Obama went from being the 10th-most-liberal senator in 2006 to the front of the line, while Clinton went from being the 32nd-most-liberal senator to the 16th-most-liberal last year.
National Journal has tabulated the rankings of U.S. senators and representatives based on their votes for the last 27 years, and found that in 2007 both Obama and his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination Hillary Clinton shifted to the left in the run-up to the primaries.
Obama went from being the 10th-most-liberal senator in 2006 to the front of the line, while Clinton went from being the 32nd-most-liberal senator to the 16th-most-liberal last year.
posted by BP News Bureau | 10:24 AM
4 Comments:
Yep, looks like Fox has already figured out who they will be campaigning against, I mean, reporting on this fall.
I don't see why you are knocking Fox News for this article because National Journal releases these rankings every year and they get covered by the news networks.
I don't see why you are knocking Fox News for this article...
Just because it's easy. ;)
I think these ratings by focus groups are ridiculous.
The ACU gives John McCain a solid conservative ranking. That's stupid. He can vote the party line on issues that may have a conservative flavor and keep a relatively high ranking with them, while the abomination of McCain-Feingold goes unnoticed.
Obama is a liberal under the generally accepted terms of American liberalism. Specifically, he is a cultural liberal. His rhetoric is collectivist and his votes follow his rhetoric.
On the other hand, Fox is most decidedly not a conservative-leaning network. Fox is a propaganda arm of the GOP, just as ABCNBCCBS is a propaganda arm of the DNC. For those who haven't been keeping up on current events, the GOP is not a conservative party. American conservatism, at least among the political and media classes, is dead as a doornail.
Post a Comment
<< Home