Kerry is NOT the most liberal senator

[classical liberal]

Nickles has only differed with the ACU/Bush**tes when he was to their right.  Hence his rating isn't 100.

I'm to the right of nearly every social position that the ACU has taken, so I'm considered by some to be socially moderate-liberal.

Voting records are generally not a measure of left-right but rather a measure of how in line witht he actual platform of the majority party.  Since Nickles is to the right of the GOP platform he gets a lower score.  Since Kennedy is the antithesis of the GOP platform, he gets single digit number.

[classical liberal]

Where is Bush on that scale?

[classical liberal]

However, all ratings systems attempt to compile the two dimensions of political spectra into one spectrum, and therefore are all moot.

Going by fiscal matters, where the conservative and liberal terms are actually applicable, Kerry is probably around a 25%. This is mainly because he either voted against or abstained from voting for the profligate appropriations of the past few years, but has consistantly voted pro-entitlement and in the years before 1992 voted for many profligate expenditures.

[classical liberal]

The 108th senate consists of:

83 White men
14 White women
1 Native American man
2 Pacific Islander men