Will Shelley Moore-Capito continue to be more moderate than Jay Rockefeller?

[Adam Griffin]

Of all the 2014 Senate races in which there was a party switch AND in which the newly-elected Senator was previously in the U.S. House (Capito, Cassidy, Cotton, Daines, Gardner), Shelley Moore-Capito is the only one who maintains a "moderate" DWNOMINATE score, and in fact, has a score closer to the center than Rockefeller did on the Liberal-Conservative Axis:

Rockefeller: -0.38
Moore-Capito: 0.26



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Now that she is in the U.S. Senate (and with the apparently imminent and irreversible shift of WV away from Democrats), will there be more pressure applied to her to take a shift to the right?