An Interesting Article

I ran across an interesting article today ranking the House and Senate members as most liberal or conservative. Surprisingly some of the more well-known characters were not on the list. Among the most liberal senators are John Kerry, Chris Dodd, Dick Durbin, and Barbara Mikulski. President Obama's replacement, Roland Burris is ranked in a tie as the most liberal senator.

The most conservative senators' list has these well-known people: Jim Imhofe (most conservative), Jim Bunning, John Thune (beat Tom Daschle for his seat), and GOP leader Mitch McConnell.

On the most liberal House member list was very few names that I recognized although Jesse Jackson Jr, Henry Waxman, and Louise Slaughter were familiar to me. Among the most conservative House members are California's Tom McClintock, John Shadegg, and Mike Pence.

You have to love Oklahoma. Their two senators, Imhofe and Coburn, are ranked in the top 4 most conservative senators. Arizona and Texas each have two House members ranked in the top 10 most conservative. So my 3 new most favorite states are Oklahoma, Texas, and Arizona. Utah, often proclaimed as the "most red" of the 50 states did not have a single senator or House member make either list. Utah may be the most Republican, but they are not the most conservative.

The most liberal delegations are all in the Northeast with the exception of Hawaii - Massachusetts (most liberal delegation), Vermont, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. The most conservative delegations are in order: Idaho, Kentucky, South Carolina, Texas and Georgia. Once again that "most red" of the states, Utah, is missing from the list.