[SoConPubbie]

Wrong. The ACU rating to which you refer was not Gore’s lifetime conservative rating in 1988. It was his rating for the year 1988 only. The ACU’s yearly rating is based on a legislator’s votes for ONLY the bills considered (voted upon) that year. So if there were no bills about abortion or gun control in a particular year, the rating doesn’t reflect a legislator’s overall positions on those issues. So a 1988 rating is not equivalent to a 2011 rating because the bills voted up by the legislature are not the same.

Hasn't it already been pointed out to you that his three year average around 1988 was around 7%?

[SoConPubbie]

BTW, there was an Abortion vote in 1988 and Gore voted the wrong way.

Check it out on the link I gave you.

[BuckeyeTexan]

An average of those three years reflects Gore’s votes on only the bills that came before the legislature during those three years. If there were no bills regarding abortion or federal funding for it, then that average doesn’t reflect his pro-life stance.

Gore’s 1988 ACU rating doesn’t reflect what people on this thread seem to think it does. And Gore was conservative by Democratic standards in 1988 not by Republican standards.