National Journal rankings for years 1999-2003 for Kerry and Edwards
2003: Kerry - 1st (96.5) Edwards - 4th (94.5)
2002: Kerry - 9th (87.3) Edwards - 31st (63.0) Edwards made the centrist list.
2001: Kerry - 11th (87.7) Edwards - 35th (68.2) Edwards almost tied with Lieberman.
2000: Kerry - 20th (77) Edwards - 19th (80.8) Rankings past 20 are not available nor are composite scores for all Senators, so Kerry is 21st or higher.
1999: Kerry - 16th (80.8) Edwards - 31st (72.2)
Average: Kerry - 12th (85.9) Edwards - 24th (75.7) Above came from Andrew Sullivan; interesting, link no longer works. Try it again, as it appears to be working now.
http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2004_07_11_dish_archive.html#108965768304201905(The 2003 rankings for them both were
based solely on votes on economic issues for Kerry and economic and social policy for Edwards--further skewing the outcome in the way the National Journal intended.)
More from Andrew Sullivan:
The
NOMINATE system tracks all roll call votes, and rank orders Senators on a 1-100 scale.
Kerry's ranking for the 108th? Tied for 24th--dead center of all Democrats. Edwards'? Tied for 19th. On a purely statistical basis, one has to at least consider a 146-vote sample to be superior to 30-odd votes. Anyhow,
what about the 107th? Kerry 27th, Edwards 38th.http://www.andrewsullivan.com/letters.php ________________________
As you can see, these statistics are being reported by Andrew Sullivan on his blog; he is no friend of the Democratic party, and supports Dubya, despite his divisive gay-baiting agenda.