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His ideology has not changed one bit, as measured by vote ratings. The American Conservative Union scored his conservatism an eight out of 100 in 2008, the same as Maryland’s Ben Cardin (Obama scored a more conservative 17). His lifetime conservative rating is 16, and over the past five years he’s actually been a slightly more liberal 8.2. Ratings by the liberal Americans for Democratic Action tell a similar tale, and a University of California at San Diego ranking through the end of July found him to be the 28th most liberal member of the Senate this year, tied with that conservative icon, Daniel Akaka of Hawaii.
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Dana Milbank putting Joe Lieberman’s ideology in perspective.
via NewsBusters
