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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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John Mica | 73% | |||
Peter Roskam | 73% | |||
Orrin Hatch | 72% | |||
Dan Burton | 71% | |||
Jason Chaffetz | 71% | |||
Thad Cochran | 71% | |||
Robert Corker | 71% | |||
Sue Myrick | 71% | |||
Rob Portman | 71% | |||
OH | State House - 62 | Jean Schmidt | Republican | 71% |
John Sullivan | 71% | |||
FL | U.S. House - 11 | Daniel Webster | Republican | 71% |
John Culberson | 70% | |||
Don Manzullo | 70% | |||
Todd Akin | 69% | |||
Steve Austria | 69% | |||
LA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bill Cassidy | Republican | 69% |
AR | U.S. House - 1 | Rick Crawford | Republican | 69% |
AZ | U.S. House - 9 | Paul Gosar | Republican | 69% |
Tom Graves, Jr. | 69% | |||
AR | Attorney General | Tim Griffin | Republican | 69% |
LA | Governor | Jeff Landry | Republican | 69% |
TX | U.S. House - 10 | Michael McCaul | Republican | 69% |
Buck McKeon | 69% | |||
SD | Governor | Kristi Noem | Republican | 69% |
Steve Pearce | 69% | |||
Martha Roby | 69% | |||
WA | U.S. House - 5 | Cathy Rodgers | Republican | 69% |
Phil Roe | 69% | |||
AZ | U.S. House - 1 | David Schweikert | Republican | 69% |
Allen West | 69% | |||
Ed Whitfield | 69% | |||
Frank Wolf | 69% | |||
Pat Toomey | 68% | |||
Roy Blunt | 67% | |||
Mike Johanns | 67% | |||
SD | U.S. Senate - Sr | John Thune | Republican | 67% |
Paul Broun | 65% | |||
David Dreier | 65% | |||
Gregg Harper | 65% | |||
Sam Johnson | 65% | |||
Tom Latham | 65% | |||
Tom Marino | 65% | |||
Devin Nunes | 65% | |||
TX | U.S. Senate - Sr | John Cornyn | Republican | 64% |
FL | U.S. House - 16 | Vern Buchanan | Republican | 63% |
Geoff Davis | 63% | |||
Sean Duffy | 63% | |||
SC | U.S. Senate - Sr | Lindsey Graham | Republican | 63% |
Dan Lungren | 63% | |||
Thaddeus McCotter | 63% | |||
VA | U.S. House - 1 | Rob Wittman | Republican | 63% |
Bill Young | 63% | |||
AL | U.S. House - 4 | Robert Aderholt | Republican | 62% |
Lamar Alexander | 62% | |||
Jon Kyl | 62% | |||
Spencer Bachus | 61% | |||
Roscoe Bartlett | 61% | |||
Jo Bonner, Jr. | 61% | |||
OK | U.S. House - 4 | Tom Cole | Republican | 61% |
Chip Cravaack | 61% | |||
John Duncan, Jr. | 61% | |||
MO | U.S. House - 6 | Sam Graves | Republican | 61% |
Randy Hultgren | 61% | |||
Jack Kingston | 61% | |||
Adam Kinzinger | 61% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 5 | Tom McClintock | Republican | 61% |
AL | U.S. House - 3 | Mike Rogers | Republican | 61% |
Dana Rohrabacher | 61% | |||
Steve Stivers | 61% | |||
PA | U.S. House - 15 | GT Thompson, Jr. | Republican | 61% |
John McCain III | 60% | |||
Dick Lugar | 59% | |||
John Campbell III | 58% | |||
Mark Kirk | 58% |