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2016 Postmortem

Renew Deal

(81,861 posts) Sun Jul 24, 2016, 12:46 AM Jul 2016

Kaine has a lifetime 0 rating from the American Conservative Union

These are the people that put on CPAC. Lower score is more liberal, higher is more conservative.

Kaine is a lifetime 0 rating. He got a 0 in 2014 and 2015. Some other notable ratings:

Lifetime
0.0 Kaine
.91 Maggie Hirono
1.14 Al Franken
1.17 Tammy Baldwin
1.78 Chris Murphy
2.67 Booker
2.94 Boxer
4 Warren
4.85 Schumer
6.31 Sanders
6.43 Sherrod Brown
8.51 Ron Wyden
100 Cruz
100 Lee
100 Sasse

2015 Ratings
30 Democrats with 0's including Kaine
4 Booker
8 Tester
9 Sanders
33 Manchin

Hillary picked the most liberal senator according to ACU ratings.

http://acuratings.conservative.org/acu-federal-legislative-ratings/?year1=2015&chamber=13&state1=0&sortable=5