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2019 Ranking Service Rated Kamala Harris as Most Liberal Senator, Further Left than Even Bernie Sanders
From four years ago, also linking the same story from YouGov.
Is Kamala Harris really the most liberal senator, as Trump claims?
On one data point, yes. But that misses the holistic picture.
From the top article:
According to GovTrack, the ideology analysis assigns a score to lawmakers according to their “legislative behavior by whether they sponsor and cosponsor overlapping sets of bills and resolutions with other Members of Congress.”
“The score can be interpreted as a left–right scale measuring the dominant ideological difference or differences among Members of Congress, although of course it only takes into account a small aspect of reality,” it explains.
In a list of all 100 senators in 2019, Harris scored #100, winning the title of the most leftist senator. For greater perspective, Sanders came in right behind her at #99. On the flip side, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) scored as the most conservative senator that year.
The link both stories used.
Annnnnd it's gone...
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678/report-card/2019
From four years ago, also linking the same story from YouGov.
Is Kamala Harris really the most liberal senator, as Trump claims?
On one data point, yes. But that misses the holistic picture.
From the top article:
According to GovTrack, the ideology analysis assigns a score to lawmakers according to their “legislative behavior by whether they sponsor and cosponsor overlapping sets of bills and resolutions with other Members of Congress.”
“The score can be interpreted as a left–right scale measuring the dominant ideological difference or differences among Members of Congress, although of course it only takes into account a small aspect of reality,” it explains.
In a list of all 100 senators in 2019, Harris scored #100, winning the title of the most leftist senator. For greater perspective, Sanders came in right behind her at #99. On the flip side, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) scored as the most conservative senator that year.
The link both stories used.
Annnnnd it's gone...
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678/report-card/2019
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