Comments on: Senator McCain Gets A Conservative Rating Of 80 From ACU http://mccainblogs.com/2008/05/14/senator-mccain-gets-a-conservative-rating-of-80-from-acu/ Blogging for a McCain Victory! Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:40:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: William Teach http://mccainblogs.com/2008/05/14/senator-mccain-gets-a-conservative-rating-of-80-from-acu/#comment-799 William Teach Sun, 18 May 2008 17:18:36 +0000 http://mccainblogs.com/2008/05/14/senator-mccain-gets-a-conservative-rating-of-80-from-acu/#comment-799 I understand your point, GGekkobear, but, by the same math, you would bring every conservative down towards the middle, and every liberal up towards the middle. I understand your point, GGekkobear, but, by the same math, you would bring every conservative down towards the middle, and every liberal up towards the middle.

]]> By: Gekkobear http://mccainblogs.com/2008/05/14/senator-mccain-gets-a-conservative-rating-of-80-from-acu/#comment-796 Gekkobear Sun, 18 May 2008 10:58:39 +0000 http://mccainblogs.com/2008/05/14/senator-mccain-gets-a-conservative-rating-of-80-from-acu/#comment-796 Well there's a misleading number. 80 isn't what he earned, it's what they gave him. You get 100 for voting their way on everything (making a conservative shift in the votes)... I get that. You get a 0 for voting liberal (making a liberal shift in the votes)... makes sense. So a 50 is neutral, 100 conservative, 0 liberal. Easy enough scale to read. And McCain votes 8 yes, 2 no, 15 no-show... why aren't no-shows counted as anything? They had the vote, and he didn't make an impact either way. Which would give him a "neutral" earned on those votes, wouldn't it? So he "earned" ((100 * 8) + (0 * 2) + (50 * 15)) /25 Or a 62 for those of you without a calculator handy. Now that's still better than Obama and Hillary; which is to be expected... but it isn't the artificially inflated number bolstered by his no-shows. Perhaps I'm wrong, and not voting at all helped Conservatives... but color me skeptical. Well there’s a misleading number. 80 isn’t what he earned, it’s what they gave him.

You get 100 for voting their way on everything (making a conservative shift in the votes)… I get that.

You get a 0 for voting liberal (making a liberal shift in the votes)… makes sense.

So a 50 is neutral, 100 conservative, 0 liberal. Easy enough scale to read.

And McCain votes 8 yes, 2 no, 15 no-show… why aren’t no-shows counted as anything?

They had the vote, and he didn’t make an impact either way. Which would give him a “neutral” earned on those votes, wouldn’t it?

So he “earned” ((100 * 8) + (0 * 2) + (50 * 15)) /25

Or a 62 for those of you without a calculator handy.

Now that’s still better than Obama and Hillary; which is to be expected… but it isn’t the artificially inflated number bolstered by his no-shows.

Perhaps I’m wrong, and not voting at all helped Conservatives… but color me skeptical.

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