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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Eddie Johnson | 23% | |||
Tim Ryan | 23% | |||
MS | U.S. House - 2 | Bennie Thompson | Democratic | 23% |
Bob Brady | 22% | |||
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 22% |
Elijah Cummings | 22% | |||
Carolyn McCarthy | 22% | |||
Bobby Rush | 22% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 21% |
MO | U.S. House - 5 | Emanuel Cleaver II | Democratic | 20% |
Jerry Costello | 20% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 20% |
CA | U.S. House - 18 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 20% |
NY | U.S. House - 5 | Gregory Meeks | Democratic | 20% |
Jim Oberstar | 20% | |||
NJ | U.S. House - 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 20% |
Chaka Fattah, Sr. | 19% | |||
Luis Gutiérrez | 19% | |||
Alcee Hastings, Sr. | 19% | |||
Steve Israel | 19% | |||
Betty Sutton | 19% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 4 | Mike Thompson | Democratic | 19% |
Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 17% | |||
MN | U.S. Senate - Sr | Amy Klobuchar | Democratic | 17% |
Frank Lautenberg | 17% | |||
NY | U.S. Senate - Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 17% |
Hillary Clinton | 16% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 2 | Joe Courtney | Democratic | 16% |
Joe Crowley | 16% | |||
Peter DeFazio | 16% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 16 | Anna Eshoo | Democratic | 16% |
Jane Harman | 16% | |||
Paul Hodes | 16% | |||
OH | U.S. House - 9 | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic | 16% |
CT | U.S. House - 1 | John Larson | Democratic | 16% |
Jim McDermott | 16% | |||
Ed Pastor | 16% | |||
Carol Shea-Porter | 16% | |||
Tom Udall | 16% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Jr | Chris Van Hollen, Jr. | Democratic | 16% |
WA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | 15% |
Mike Doyle, Jr. | 15% | |||
William Jefferson | 15% | |||
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 15% | |||
José Serrano | 15% | |||
AZ | U.S. House - 7 | Raul Grijalva | Democratic | 14% |
Jim Moran, Jr. | 14% | |||
Ed Towns | 14% | |||
Tim Bishop | 11% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 37 | Lloyd Doggett II | Democratic | 11% |
Bob Filner | 11% | |||
Darlene Hooley | 11% | |||
Dave Loebsack | 11% | |||
Nita Lowey | 11% | |||
Carolyn Maloney | 11% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 7 | Doris Matsui | Democratic | 11% |
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 11% |
George Miller | 11% | |||
Dave Obey | 11% | |||
Henry Waxman | 11% | |||
John Yarmuth | 11% | |||
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 10% | |
Lacy Clay, Jr. | 10% | |||
Donald Payne | 10% | |||
Louise Slaughter | 10% | |||
Robert Byrd | 8% | |||
Mike Capuano | 8% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 9 | Yvette Clarke | Democratic | 8% |
Sam Farr | 8% | |||
HI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Mazie Hirono | Democratic | 8% |
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 8% | |||
John Kerry | 8% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 8% | |||
NJ | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bob Menendez | Democratic | 8% |
WA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 8% |
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 8% |
MA | U.S. House - 1 | Richard Neal | Democratic | 8% |
MD | U.S. House - 3 | John Sarbanes | Democratic | 8% |
VA | U.S. House - 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 8% |
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 8% |
OR | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 8% |
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 7% |
CO | U.S. House - 1 | Diana DeGette | Democratic | 7% |
Bill Delahunt | 7% | |||
Barack Obama II | 7% | |||
Mel Watt | 7% | |||
Anthony Weiner | 7% | |||
Barbara Boxer | 6% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 6% |
Barney Frank | 6% | |||
Lois Capps | 4% | |||
TN | U.S. House - 9 | Steve Cohen | Democratic | 4% |
TX | U.S. House - 9 | Al Green | Democratic | 4% |
Mike Honda | 4% | |||
WA | Governor | Jay Inslee | Democratic | 4% |
TX | U.S. House - 18 | Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | 4% |
David Price | 4% | |||
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 4% | |||
Tom Harkin | 2% | |||
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 2% |