{"id":1232,"date":"2003-06-18T14:08:59","date_gmt":"2003-06-18T18:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2003\/06\/18\/1232.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:43:24","slug":"liberality-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2003\/06\/18\/liberality-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberality Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Does anybody remember the year 2002? The reason I ask is that, as I'm looking at the Democratic Presidential Candidates, I looked at the Liberal\/Conservative indices from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proaxis.com\/cop\/\">Congressional Observer<\/a> for Senators, and for some reason all four of the candidates from the Senate were much less liberal in 2002 than in 2001 or 2003.\n\n<p>I'll try a table:\n<table><td>Senator<\/td>\n<td>2001<\/td>\n<td>2002<\/td>\n<td>2003\n<tr><td>Graham<\/td>\n<td>93%<\/td>\n<td>74.5%<\/td>\n<td>95%\n<tr><td>Edwards<\/td>\n<td>90%<\/td>\n<td>77.5%<\/td>\n<td>95%\n<tr><td>Kerry<\/td>\n<td>97%<\/td>\n<td>89%<\/td>\n<td>99%\n<tr><td>Lieberman<\/td>\n<td>93%<\/td>\n<td>82%<\/td>\n<td>94%<\/td>\n<\/table>\n\n<p>\nNone of them were up for re-election in 2002, so that's not it. Was there some terribly liberal legislation that they all gakked? Or was it such a good year for liberals that it was hard to hit those nineties? Barbara Boxer stayed above 95% liberal, as did Mark Dayton, Richard Durbin, Pat Leahy, Barbara Mikulsky, Jack Reed, and of course Ted Kennedy. Paul Sarbanes, out of Maryland, hit 100%. The late, great Paul Wellstone is left off the Congressional Observer list; but tops out the <a href=\"http:\/\/nationaljournal.com\/\">National Journal<\/a>'s list of liberals for 2002. Anyway, any ideas?\n\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does anybody remember the year 2002? The reason I ask is that, as I&#8217;m looking at the Democratic Presidential Candidates, I looked at the Liberal\/Conservative indices from the Congressional Observer for Senators, and for some reason all four of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16792,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/16792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}