Thursday, July 29, 2010
Jim DeMint, Senator No
In the current climate of “No” on Capitol Hill, Democrats might well consider Republicans Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma the biggest “nattering nabobs of negativity” in the Senate.
After reviewing 21 years of voting records, Brighten Godfrey, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Illinois, discovered that DeMint and Coburn have the highest rate of voting “no” among current senators, at 47.9% and 47.8%, respectively. Most senators during the two decades under review cast “no” votes between 30-40% of the time.
But the highest rate recorded (49.9%) went to Republican Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming who left the Senate in 1994.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Political Divisiveness at an All-time High, Qualitatively Speaking (by Brighten Godfrey, You Infinite Snake)
Sen. DeMint Successfully Fights to Retain Secret Blocking of Nominees (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
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