U.S. Election '08: Race to the Conventions

[Lemur]

Obama: The lesser of the two greater evils.

So sayeth the people who voted for George W. Bush twice.

Good video interview with Richard Brookheiser, Senior Editor of National Review.

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A couple of threads ago, Xiahou linked to National Journal's predictable press release that Obama and Hillary are teh most liberal Senators evar. He also linked to what they claimed was their methodology, which just happens to result in the Dem frontrunners being the most liberal people two presidential campaigns in a row. Doubtless they'll do the same thing in 2012, since it's working so well for them.

I linked to a liberal group, which also monitors Senate votes for the benefit of its granola-eating constituency, and which came to very different conclusions. Xiahou denounced this as "linking to a liberal blog," sniffed meningfully, re-donned his ascot and went back to his cognac.

To once again demonstrate how empty the National Journal's rankings are, I now present you with the American Conservative Union's ratings. Of particular interest: Their Senate Standouts. Note that their "Best of the Best" and "Worst of the Worst" don't include any of the candidates currently running for office. Interesting, is it not, that a group devoted to conservatism would arrive at such variant conclusions?

So we have the possibility that National Journal is just doing honest vote counts, and somehow wound up nominating the Democratic frontrunners as the most liberal Senators ever; or we have the possibility that National Journal (a well-respected magazine in a state of perpetual subscriber decline) got a nice bump when its ratings were used as national talking points four years ago, and is looking for the same thing this year.