[LS]

Well, not sure anyone has answered my question: do these include procedural votes? For example, is it a plus to advance a bill to a position where it would be killed? Say, voting for a bill that has a poison pill that you know will cause it's defeat? Or is that a negative?

My theory is that many boost their ratings with the meaningless stuff, but vote the wrong way on stuff that really could do something.

[Impy]

I did, I thought, kinda anyway. As far as I can see ACU is not listing what votes it’s uses. So I have no idea what they are. Pretty lame.

I am certain their ratings are only based on (25 selected) votes though, NOT position statements.

Back when they DID show which votes used they were always votes on final passage, key conservative amendments (or key liberal amendments), or key cloture votes in the Senate. Not meaningless procedural votes.

If your asking is his high ACU an illusion based on terrible vote selection by them, I don’t think it is.

Say what you want about him but you can’t say he’s from the left wing of the party. Near as I can tell he’s well off on the better half of Republican Senators. Despite having championed shamtesty he does indeed appear to be pretty dang conservative overall. So I would find more productive lines of attack than trying to tear down his voting record. You could point out it wouldn’t necessary translate to being a good exec and you’d have a valid point.