Was the most liberal US Senator from ID and conservative from RI?

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According to this site
http://voteview.com/oc.htm

The most liberal Senators are

Glen Taylor D-ID  -0.973
Wayne Morse R-OR -0.935
Aaron Burr DR-NY -0.91
Thomas McCreery D-KY -0.881

The most liberal current Senator is
Russ Feingold D-WI -0.784


The most Conservative
James De Wolf DR-RI 0.975
Joseph Cilley D-NH 0.962
Philip Schuyler F-NY 0.927
Charles Waterman R-CO 0.917

The most conservative current Senator is
Allard CO 0.607


Glen Taylor was Wallace's running mate for the Progressive party in 1948. Ironically in one of his unsuccessful runs for Senator, he lost the Democratic primary to Frank Church, a fellow liberal with a much more moderate score.

James De Wolf was a slaver.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Well, at least that site has one thing correct.  It has liberals as negative (-) and conservatives as positive (+).

Don't know about the rest, but I'm too tired to check it out.

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Feingold has an unusual spot on the classification in two dimensions,  -0.784  -0.62, which is an extreme value on the unit circle. No one else is near him. Strangely the closest person is probably Aaron Burr. Jesse Helms R-NC 0.737, 0.646 is close to opposite him.

The first variable is left/right. The second variable is less important today.

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Other extremal Senators
Norris R-NE -0.012, 1
Clark D-ID -0.009, 0.999

And for the most boringly centerist Senator of all time:
Israel Smith DR-VT -0.004 -0.03

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Here's the extremal House members:

All time most liberal:
Colcock D-SC -0.988 (pre civil war, weird) -0.988
Hindman D-AR (confederate  general) -0.972
Wallace D-SC (pre civil war again) -0.971
Zioncheck D-WA (first non confederate guy) -0.957

Current most liberal:
John Conyers D-MI -0.758, -0.588, 2nd longest serving member of Congress
Waters D-CA -0.747
Filner D-CA -0.701
Mcdermot D-WA -0.701

All time most conservative. Seems to mainly be recent Congressmen, with the 2 most conservative currently serving:
Jeff Flake R-AZ 0.999
Ron Paul R-TX 0.996
#7 is also currently serving:
Trent Franks R-AZ 0.956

[bgwah]

Wayne Morse switched parties and was a Democrat at the end of his career, when he lost to Bob Packwood (R).

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Do you mean of the House? John Dingell, also from Michigan interestingly enough, has been serving since 1955 compared to Conyers' 1965. Byrd (1959) and Kennedy (1962) have been in the Senate longer just off the top of my head.

[12th Doctor]

Interesting, the "super conservative" Santorum has an overall rating of .390... not even close to being as conservative as Bush who is .566... in fact, he isn't even as conservative as Bush the Elder (.462)

[Gabu]

How was this calculated?  I can't find anything on the page that concretely explains exactly how they determined who is conservative and who isn't.

[Joe Republic]

How was this calculated?  I can't find anything on the page that concretely explains exactly how they determined who is conservative and who isn't.

Ditto.  I was even more confused when I saw this:

All time most conservative. Seems to mainly be recent Congressmen, with the 2 most conservative currently serving:
Jeff Flake R-AZ 0.999
Ron Paul R-TX 0.996

Anybody who follows politics could tell you that those two are the most libertarian congressmen, but certainly not wholly conservative.  Perhaps their rating system only takes economic issues into account?  That would certainly help explain the question in the thread title a little better.

[memphis]

How about Huey Long? He was pretty far to the left.

[Colin]

All time most conservative. Seems to mainly be recent Congressmen, with the 2 most conservative currently serving:
Jeff Flake R-AZ 0.999
Ron Paul R-TX 0.996

Anybody who follows politics could tell you that those two are the most libertarian congressmen, but certainly not wholly conservative.  Perhaps their rating system only takes economic issues into account?  That would certainly help explain the question in the thread title a little better.

That's what I was thinking as well. This has to be just an economic scale from left to right. If social issues were added there is no reason why Santorum should have a .390 and Jeff Flake should have a .999.

[PBrunsel]

It makes sense that the Singing Cowboy is the most liberal senator. In 1948 as Henry Wallace's running-mate he openly courted American Communists and is the main reason the American Communist Party endorsed that Progressive Ticket in 1948 (since Henry Wallace was very ant-Communist).

[MaC]

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