Subject: Nat Journal: Obama most liberal Senator
From: "Andrew Baumann" <[email-masked]>
To: "ic2008" <[email-masked]>, "Ana Iparraguirre" <[email-masked]>, "Bryan Fisher" <[email-masked]>, "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>, "Kristi Fuksa" <[email-masked]>, "Paul Begala" <[email-masked]>, "Stan Greenberg" <[email-masked]>, "Susan McCue" <[email-masked]>, "Tara McGuinness" <[email-masked]>, "Tom Matzzie" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:20:24 -0500

From today's Hotline, I'll be updating our Obama hit accordingly.

Barack Obama "was the most liberal senator in 2007, according to
National Journal's 27th annual vote ratings." Obama "shifted further to
the left last year in the run-up to the primaries, after ranking as the
16th- and 10th-most-liberal during his first two years in the Senate." 

Hillary Clinton, "also shifted to the left last year. She ranked as the
16th-most-liberal senator in the 2007 ratings.... In 2006, Clinton was
the 32nd-most-liberal senator." In their yearlong race for the Dem nod,
Obama and HRC "have had strikingly similar voting records. Of the 267
measures on which both senators cast votes in 2007, the two differed by
only 10." Rutgers prof. Richard Lau: "The policy differences between
Clinton and Obama are so slight they are almost nonexistent to the
average voter" (Friel/Cohen/Victor, National Journal, 2/2).

 

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