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Straight Talking (Now With Added Socialism!)
Obsidian Wings — ... that he was the most liberal member of the Senate in 2007. One crucial fact about those rankings: they consider the percentage of the votes a Senator actually cast, as opposed to the number of (allegedly) liberal votes cast. I'll outsource the explanation of why this matters to Steve Benen: ...

Is McCain implying Obama is an “extremist” and a “socialist”?
Crooks and Liars — ... Steve Benen has already debunked the right-wing claim that Obama is the “most liberal member of the US Senate” so I won’t bother repeating it here, but a look at McCain’s voting record during the Bush years reveals just what you would expect: Despite the CW that McCain is a party-bucking maverick, he’s voted with Bush ...

National Journal Death Spiral Watch
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... was OK--handicapped by he said/she said journalism and the fact that it took every Republican claim seriously, but OK. Since then it has gone downhill. And now it has jumped the shark: IMHO, nobody should be reading the National Journal. Nobody should be paying a cent to the National Journal--you can get better, more reliable, more sophisticated information from less dishonest information brokers from other places. Steve Benen: The #1 most liberal senator is … Barack Obama?: Be prepared to hear about this, over and ...