To the left of Bernie? Really??
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The government watchdog website GovTrack.us ranked all 100 U.S. Senators with an "ideology score" from 1.0 (most conservative) to 0.0 (most liberal). The score is based on each senator's legislative behavior: namely, how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they co-sponsor are to other congress members.
"Members of Congress with similar political views will tend to cosponsor the same set of bills, or bills by the same set of authors, and inversely Members of Congress with different political views will tend to cosponsor different bills," the website explains.
GovTrack.us gave Sanders an ideology score of 0.02 and Harris a score of 0.00. together, they ranked as the most liberal members of the Senate. The website said Harris joined bipartisan bills the least often compared to Senate Democrats.
"Of the 471 bills that Harris cosponsored, 15 percent were introduced by a legislator who was not a Democrat," the website stated.
She may have scored as slightly more liberal than Sanders because one of her authored bills actually became a law whereas none of Sanders' have—it's actually rare for any bill to become a law, according to the website.
The govtrack data:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678/report-card/2019
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Finally a comment on Kamala worth focusing on!
The personal stuff was pretty awful yesterday.
One thought was that she would attract educated women and GOP which would offset the Bernie bro loss.
Her voting track record made public and discussed would inflect that.
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Interesting website @George-K
Fun to look through it. I was surprise to see Senator McConnell or Senator Paul rank so "low"
