Burnt Orange Report

I took the test. It's pretty obvious I'm a liberal:

Rank Item Percent
1: Daniel Inouye (Hawaii) (100%)
2: Jon Corzine (New Jersey) (100%)
3: Edward "Ted" Kennedy (Massachusetts) (97%)
4: Hillary Rodham Clinton (New York) (86%)
5: Charles E. "Chuck" Schumer (New York) (83%)
6: Richard "Dick" Durbin (Illinois) (82%)
7: Robert "Bob" Graham (Florida) (80%)
8: Tom Harkin (Iowa) (80%)
9: Dianne Feinstein (California) (75%)
10: John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (West Virginia) (75%)
11: Patrick Leahy (Vermont) (75%)
12: Christopher Dodd (Connecticut) (72%)
13: Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (South Carolina) (72%)
14: John F. Kerry (Massachusetts) (66%)
15: Joseph Lieberman (Connecticut) (66%)
16: Robert C. Byrd (West Virginia) (65%)
17: C. William "Bill" Nelson (Florida) (58%)
18: Joseph Biden (Delaware) (57%)
19: Harry Reid (Nevada) (53%)
20: Thomas Daschle (South Dakota) (53%)
21: Evan Bayh (Indiana) (43%)
22: Max Baucus (Montana) (40%)
23: John Breaux (Louisiana) (25%)
24: Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas) (22%)
25: Zell Miller (Georgia) (7%)

I took the liberal line on everything basically. Two exceptions: 1) I said my ideal senator would have voted for No Child Left Behind. I don't think that it was a terribly bad bill, it just hasn't been funded. I also said "no opinion" on the male / female question. On the war in Iraq question I said I would have voted against the resolution but for funding post-war.

OK, I voted moderate to conservative and got Fritz at the top of my list too.

I guess that just makes me an 86-year-old anti-Semite liberal from the Deep South. ;)

Just kidding. I'm curious what the algorithm is below this, because my selection base was probably different from Byron's, to hear him talk. Of course, a lot of what may drive this is the abortion ban priority and the no child priority, and the fact that I placed healthcare high.

One question: Where are the other 19 Democrats in the Senate on this form?

Rank Item Percent
1: "Fritz" Hollings (South Carolina) (100%)
2: Daniel Inouye (Hawaii) (80%)
3: Jon Corzine (New Jersey) (80%)
4: Patrick Leahy (Vermont) (80%)
5: Edward "Ted" Kennedy (Massachusetts) (78%)
. . .
20: John F. Kerry (Massachusetts) (55%)
21: Joseph Lieberman (Connecticut) (53%)
22: John Breaux (Louisiana) (44%)
23: Max Baucus (Montana) (38%)
24: Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas) (36%)
25: Zell Miller (Georgia) (36%)

"One question: Where are the other 19 Democrats in the Senate on this form?"

That's a good question. SelectSmart limits user-created selectors to 25 options. Apparently the 25 were randomly chosen(?)

Hey Jim-

OK, that's useful. Thanks.

To make it more effective, set up two forms, each with 22 senators. Rank the senators according to their ADA or ACU scores. Pu the odd-numbered ones in one data base, even numbered in the other. Then run the same answers against both data sets. You should get an accurate comparison to all the senate (though I was shocked to see that Blanche Lincoln is closer to Zell than Fritz . . . maybe she is the answer to the Kerrymate question).