tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post1793482135575790857..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: In the MiddleJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-7973887829845192632010-01-20T14:23:53.073-06:002010-01-20T14:23:53.073-06:00Pork, but he also has other occasional oddball vot...Pork, but he also has other occasional oddball votes (IIRC, he was the only liberal who voted to confirm Ashcroft). <br /><br />It's true that the particular collection of votes doesn't always give the true measure of the Senator -- just to pick one thing, if there had been a vote on single-payer, that would have moved Sanders to the left (since only a handful of Dems would have voted with him). Certainly, I wouldn't just automatically take the votes and declare that Feingold is a very conservative Dem...but what needs to be done with data like these is to explain them, not ignore them.Jonathan Bernsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-52579652249287355592010-01-20T14:09:09.054-06:002010-01-20T14:09:09.054-06:00Feingold's voting record has been very curious...Feingold's voting record has been very curious this last year; every measure I've seen has placed him well into the right of the caucus. It's because he's been a very consistent opponent of anything that could even remotely be considered 'pork'.Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06345079564133624529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-12590480750340957332010-01-20T09:59:31.663-06:002010-01-20T09:59:31.663-06:00Although this is interesting, I humbly suggest tha...Although this is interesting, I humbly suggest that there is something flawed with a ranking that makes Feingold the third most conservative Democrat and puts Bernie Sanders to the right of 20 Democrats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com