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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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SC | U.S. House - 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 23% |
Elijah Cummings | 23% | |||
Rahm Emanuel | 23% | |||
Eddie Johnson | 23% | |||
Loretta Sanchez | 23% | |||
Tim Bishop | 21% | |||
Joseph Hoeffel | 21% | |||
Nita Lowey | 21% | |||
Denise Majette | 21% | |||
NJ | U.S. House - 9 | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Democratic | 21% |
Tim Ryan | 21% | |||
Thomas Allen | 20% | |||
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 20% |
Corrine Brown | 20% | |||
Mark Dayton | 20% | |||
John Dingell | 20% | |||
Timothy Johnson | 20% | |||
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 20% | |||
Tom Lantos | 20% | |||
Barbara Mikulski | 20% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 20% |
Tom Harkin | 19% | |||
Patrick Kennedy | 19% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 8 | Stephen Lynch | Democratic | 19% |
Robert Wexler | 19% | |||
Lane Evans | 18% | |||
WA | Governor | Jay Inslee | Democratic | 18% |
Gerald Kleczka | 18% | |||
Jim Langevin | 18% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 18% | |||
Sandy Levin | 18% | |||
Brad Miller | 18% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 1 | Richard Neal | Democratic | 18% |
NJ | U.S. House - 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 18% |
Lacy Clay, Jr. | 17% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 17% |
OH | U.S. House - 9 | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic | 17% |
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 17% |
Frank Ballance, Jr. | 16% | |||
John Conyers, Jr. | 16% | |||
Sam Farr | 16% | |||
Carolyn Maloney | 16% | |||
Dennis Kucinich | 15% | |||
Donald Payne | 15% | |||
Lynn Woolsey | 15% | |||
Mike Capuano | 14% | |||
CO | U.S. House - 1 | Diana DeGette | Democratic | 14% |
Jim McDermott | 14% | |||
Juanita Millender-McDonald | 14% | |||
Major Owens | 14% | |||
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 14% |
TX | U.S. House - 37 | Lloyd Doggett II | Democratic | 13% |
NA | President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 10% |
Barbara Boxer | 10% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | 10% |
Thomas Daschle | 10% | |||
Frank Lautenberg | 10% | |||
Bill Nelson, Sr. | 10% | |||
Harry Reid | 10% | |||
NY | U.S. Senate - Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 10% |
WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 9% |
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 9% |
Lois Capps | 9% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ben Cardin | Democratic | 9% |
Susan Davis | 9% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 9% |
Chaka Fattah, Sr. | 9% | |||
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 9% | |||
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 9% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 9% |
Robert Matsui | 9% | |||
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 9% |
CA | U.S. House - 30 | Adam Schiff | Democratic | 9% |
VA | U.S. House - 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 9% |
José Serrano | 9% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 32 | Brad Sherman | Democratic | 9% |
Stephanie Tubbs Jones | 9% | |||
Tom Udall | 9% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Jr | Chris Van Hollen, Jr. | Democratic | 9% |
Gary Ackerman | 8% | |||
Michael McNulty | 8% | |||
Anthony Weiner | 8% | |||
Hillary Clinton | 7% | |||
Russ Feingold | 7% | |||
Carl Levin | 7% | |||
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 0% | |
Howard Berman | 0% | |||
Peter DeFazio | 0% | |||
Bill Delahunt | 0% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 0% |
John Edwards | 0% | |||
Eliot Engel | 0% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 16 | Anna Eshoo | Democratic | 0% |
Bob Filner | 0% | |||
Barney Frank | 0% | |||
Daniel Graham | 0% | |||
AZ | U.S. House - 7 | Raul Grijalva | Democratic | 0% |
Luis Gutiérrez | 0% | |||
Alcee Hastings, Sr. | 0% | |||
Maurice Hinchey | 0% |