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Originally Posted by alansmithee
From my understanding of the article, their "center" was at 50.1, or slightly liberal.
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Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) tracks the percentage of times that each lawmaker votes on the liberal side of an issue. Based on these votes, the ADA assigns a numerical score to each lawmaker, where "100" is the most liberal and "0" is the most conservative.
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After searching the ADA website,
http://www.adaction.org/, I could find no explaination of the "Liberal Quotient" scale, at all. All I found was that their board decides.
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Each year, ADA's Legislative Committee selects 20 votes it considers the most important during that session. ADA's National Board and/or National Executive Committee approves those votes. Each member recieves 5 points if he/she voted with ADA, and does not receive 5 points if he/she voted against us or was absent. The total possible is 100.
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This is what I question. Who are these board members? What are their qualifications? This scale, which put Fox News at only slightly off center to the right, is
highly suspect.