With which Congressperson are you most closely politically aligned?

[Person Man]

Center-Left with a minor hawkish streak- Salazar, Clinton, Dodd, Lautenburg and Lieberman.

[Mr. Morden]

I went through the list of votes, but I had a hard time taking a position on some of them, without knowing more background, or more details about what was in the bill.  But going through the list gave me enough of a feel for where I'd end up that I assigned myself a scores of:

economic: 90% conservative
social: 45% conservative
foreign policy 45% conservative

So then, rather than finding my closest matches on each of those individually, I treated it as a 3-dimensional ideological grid, and used Open Office to compute my closest matches on the grid.  (dist)^2 = (my econ. score - Member econ. score)^2 + (my soc. score - Member soc. score)^2 + (my fp score - Member fp score)^2

Top matches in the Senate:
1) John Sununu (R-NH)
2) Judd Gregg (R-NH)
3) Sam Brownback (R-KS)
4) John McCain (R-AZ)
5) Robert Bennett (R-UT)
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35) Mary Landrieu (D-LA) (top Dem. match)

Bottom matches in the Senate (with worst being #1):
1) Richard Durbin (D-IL)
2) Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
3) Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
4) Jack Reed (D-RI)
5) Patty Murray (D-WA)
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38) James Inhofe (R-OK) (worst GOP match)


Top matches in the House:
1) Jim Kolbe (R-AZ)
2) Butch Otter (R-ID)
3) John Duncan (R-TN)
4) Tom Osborne (R-NE)
5) Ken Calvert (R-CA)
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53) Dan Boren (D-OK) (top Dem match)

Bottom matches in the House (with worst being #1):
1) Diane Watson (D-CA)
2) George Miller (D-CA)
3) Hilda Solis (D-CA)
4) Xavier Becerra (D-CA)
5) Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
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108) John Culberson (R-TX) (worst GOP match)