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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Jerry Costello | 31% | |||
Heath Shuler | 31% | |||
GA | U.S. House - 2 | Sanford Bishop, Jr. | Democratic | 29% |
TX | U.S. House - 28 | Henry Cuellar | Democratic | 28% |
Mark Critz | 27% | |||
WV | U.S. Senate - Sr | Joe Manchin III | Democratic | 25% |
Ben Chandler III | 25% | |||
Jason Altmire | 24% | |||
Jim Cooper | 24% | |||
Leonard Boswell | 23% | |||
Larry Kissell | 23% | |||
Gene Green | 22% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 21 | Jim Costa | Democratic | 21% |
Nick Rahall II | 21% | |||
Dennis Cardoza | 21% | |||
Mary Landrieu | 21% | |||
Silvestre Reyes | 20% | |||
Bill Owens | 20% | |||
Mark Pryor | 18% | |||
Kent Conrad | 18% | |||
Dan Lipinski | 17% | |||
Harry Reid | 17% | |||
Jim Webb, Jr. | 17% | |||
Timothy Johnson | 16% | |||
Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. | 16% | |||
Mike Doyle, Jr. | 16% | |||
GA | U.S. House - 13 | David Scott | Democratic | 16% |
Claire McCaskill | 16% | |||
Joe Lieberman | 15% | |||
OH | U.S. House - 9 | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic | 14% |
WA | U.S. House - 9 | Adam Smith | Democratic | 14% |
Max Baucus | 14% | |||
MT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jon Tester | Democratic | 14% |
Carolyn McCarthy | 14% | |||
Rob Andrews | 14% | |||
Ron Kind | 13% | |||
Peter DeFazio | 13% | |||
Joe Baca, Sr. | 13% | |||
Tim Ryan | 13% | |||
VA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Mark Warner | Democratic | 13% |
Herb Kohl | 12% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 8 | Stephen Lynch | Democratic | 12% |
Jim Moran, Jr. | 12% | |||
ME | Councilor - Ward 3 | Mike Michaud | 12% | |
DE | U.S. Senate - Sr | Tom Carper | Democratic | 11% |
Dale Kildee | 11% | |||
MD | U.S. House - 2 | Dutch Ruppersberger | Democratic | 11% |
John Dingell | 11% | |||
Shelley Berkley | 11% | |||
NJ | U.S. House - 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 11% |
Jeff Bingaman | 11% | |||
NJ | U.S. House - 9 | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Democratic | 10% |
Pete Visclosky | 10% | |||
WA | U.S. House - 2 | Rick Larsen | Democratic | 10% |
Steve Israel | 10% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | 10% |
Kurt Schrader | 9% | |||
Kay Hagan | 9% | |||
MS | U.S. House - 2 | Bennie Thompson | Democratic | 9% |
Norm Dicks | 9% | |||
OR | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 9% |
Jim Langevin | 9% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 4 | Mike Thompson | Democratic | 9% |
TX | U.S. House - 9 | Al Green | Democratic | 9% |
Dennis Kucinich | 8% | |||
Mark Udall | 8% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 8% |
Jay Rockefeller IV | 8% | |||
Jerry McNerney | 8% | |||
MN | Governor | Tim Walz | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 8% |
Dianne Feinstein | 8% | |||
NJ | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bob Menendez | Democratic | 8% |
Loretta Sanchez | 8% | |||
Tom Harkin | 8% | |||
Joe Crowley | 8% | |||
SC | U.S. House - 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 8% |
Lacy Clay, Jr. | 8% | |||
Henry Gonzalez | 7% | |||
David Price | 7% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 1 | Richard Neal | Democratic | 7% |
MD | U.S. House - 5 | Steny Hoyer | Democratic | 7% |
G. K. Butterfield, Jr. | 7% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Gary Peters | Democratic | 7% |
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 7% |
Steve Rothman | 7% | |||
Corrine Brown | 7% | |||
PA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bob Casey, Jr. | Democratic | 7% |
MN | U.S. Senate - Sr | Amy Klobuchar | Democratic | 7% |
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 7% |
TX | U.S. House - 37 | Lloyd Doggett II | Democratic | 7% |
Cedric Richmond | 7% | |||
Daniel Inouye | 6% | |||
Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 6% | |||
CO | U.S. Senate - Sr | Michael Bennet | Democratic | 6% |
VA | U.S. House - 11 | Gerry Connolly | Democratic | 6% |
Carl Levin | 6% | |||
Brian Higgins | 6% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 30 | Adam Schiff | Democratic | 6% |
NY | U.S. Senate - Jr | Kirsten Gillibrand | Democratic | 6% |
VA | U.S. House - 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 6% |