Reply #49: "Obama Ranked Most Liberal Senator in 2007"

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/01/obama_ranked_most_liberal_sena_1.html

"Obama Ranked Most Liberal Senator in 2007

It may or may not be a trophy that he wants to pick up right now.

The National Journal is out with its 27th Annual vote ratings and it ranked Sen. Barack Obama as the most liberal Senator in the entire Senate. (His first year he was 16th, and last year he was 10th.) But he wasn't alone in his shift to the left. Sen. Hillary Clinton was 16th herself in 2007 after being 32nd in 2006.

And there really wasn't much room between them. The Journal notes of the 267 measures on which both senators cast votes in 2007, the two differed on only 10."


It appears that Srenator Obama has become increasingly liberal over the course of his term. Somehow, he managed to beat my Senator Boxer for the title -- not an easy thing to do.