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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Gene Green | 38% | |||
Mary Landrieu | 38% | |||
UT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Mike Lee | Republican | 38% |
Dan Lipinski | 38% | |||
Bill Owens | 32% | |||
Silvestre Reyes | 32% | |||
Heath Shuler | 32% | |||
Mark Kirk | 31% | |||
Joe Lieberman | 31% | |||
WV | U.S. Senate - Sr | Joe Manchin III | Democratic | 31% |
Jay Rockefeller IV | 31% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 31% |
Joe Baca, Sr. | 30% | |||
Leonard Boswell | 30% | |||
VA | U.S. House - 11 | Gerry Connolly | Democratic | 30% |
Tim Johnson | 30% | |||
Carolyn McCarthy | 30% | |||
Ed Perlmutter | 30% | |||
Steve Rothman | 30% | |||
GA | U.S. House - 13 | David Scott | Democratic | 30% |
Jim Cooper | 28% | |||
Charlie Gonzalez | 28% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 9 | Al Green | Democratic | 28% |
MD | U.S. House - 2 | Dutch Ruppersberger | Democratic | 28% |
AL | U.S. House - 7 | Terri Sewell | Democratic | 28% |
Norm Dicks | 26% | |||
Brian Higgins | 26% | |||
Steve Israel | 26% | |||
Jim Langevin | 26% | |||
Sandy Levin | 26% | |||
Ron Paul | 26% | |||
WA | U.S. House - 9 | Adam Smith | Democratic | 26% |
CT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Richard Blumenthal | Democratic | 25% |
Timothy Johnson | 25% | |||
MN | U.S. Senate - Sr | Amy Klobuchar | Democratic | 25% |
Carl Levin | 25% | |||
Mark Pryor | 25% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 25% |
RI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Sheldon Whitehouse | Democratic | 25% |
Rob Andrews | 23% | |||
Shelley Berkley | 23% | |||
Corrine Brown | 23% | |||
Russ Carnahan | 23% | |||
NM | U.S. Senate - Jr | Martin Heinrich | Democratic | 23% |
Dave Loebsack | 23% | |||
Brad Miller | 23% | |||
Albio Sires | 23% | |||
Betty Sutton | 23% | |||
Gary Ackerman | 21% | |||
G. K. Butterfield, Jr. | 21% | |||
DE | Governor | John Carney, Jr. | Democratic | 21% |
SC | U.S. House - 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 21% |
Jerry Costello | 21% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 2 | Joe Courtney | Democratic | 21% |
Susan Davis | 21% | |||
Ted Deutch | 21% | |||
Colleen Hanabusa | 21% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 4 | Jim Himes | Democratic | 21% |
MD | U.S. House - 5 | Steny Hoyer | Democratic | 21% |
OH | U.S. House - 9 | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic | 21% |
Dale Kildee | 21% | |||
WA | U.S. House - 2 | Rick Larsen | Democratic | 21% |
Ed Pastor | 21% | |||
Tim Ryan | 21% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 30 | Adam Schiff | Democratic | 21% |
Bob Turner | 21% | |||
MN | Governor | Tim Walz | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 21% |
Mark Begich | 19% | |||
CO | U.S. Senate - Sr | Michael Bennet | Democratic | 19% |
Tim Bishop | 19% | |||
DE | U.S. Senate - Sr | Tom Carper | Democratic | 19% |
PA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bob Casey, Jr. | Democratic | 19% |
Kent Conrad | 19% | |||
John Dingell | 19% | |||
Eliot Engel | 19% | |||
Dianne Feinstein | 19% | |||
NY | U.S. Senate - Jr | Kirsten Gillibrand | Democratic | 19% |
Kay Hagan | 19% | |||
Daniel Inouye | 19% | |||
John Kerry | 19% | |||
Ron Kind | 19% | |||
Herb Kohl | 19% | |||
Nita Lowey | 19% | |||
Claire McCaskill | 19% | |||
Jerry McNerney | 19% | |||
Barbara Mikulski | 19% | |||
Bill Nelson, Sr. | 19% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Gary Peters | Democratic | 19% |
Harry Reid | 19% | |||
Laura Richardson | 19% | |||
NY | U.S. Senate - Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 19% |
NH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jeanne Shaheen | Democratic | 19% |
Niki Tsongas | 19% | |||
Pete Visclosky | 19% | |||
VA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Mark Warner | Democratic | 19% |
Jim Webb, Jr. | 19% | |||
NV | U.S. House - 2 | Mark Amodei | Republican | 17% |
Howard Berman | 17% | |||
Bob Brady | 17% | |||
IN | U.S. House - 7 | André Carson | Democratic | 17% |