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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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MN | U.S. Senate - Sr | Amy Klobuchar | Democratic | 48% |
Herb Kohl | 48% | |||
Mary Landrieu | 48% | |||
Frank Lautenberg | 48% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 48% | |||
Joe Lieberman | 48% | |||
WV | U.S. Senate - Sr | Joe Manchin III | Independent | 48% |
Claire McCaskill | 48% | |||
NJ | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bob Menendez | Democratic | 48% |
OR | U.S. Senate - Jr | Jeff Merkley | Democratic | 48% |
Barbara Mikulski | 48% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 48% |
Bill Nelson, Sr. | 48% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 48% |
Jay Rockefeller IV | 48% | |||
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 48% |
NY | U.S. Senate - Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 48% |
NH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jeanne Shaheen | Democratic | 48% |
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 48% |
MT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jon Tester | Democratic | 48% |
Mark Udall | 48% | |||
Tom Udall | 48% | |||
VA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Mark Warner | Democratic | 48% |
Jim Webb, Jr. | 48% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Sheldon Whitehouse | Democratic | 48% |
OR | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 48% |
Donald Young | 48% | |||
Justin Amash | 47% | |||
Pete King | 47% | |||
Dave Reichert | 47% | |||
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | 47% | |||
Dan Boren | 46% | |||
Michael Grimm | 46% | |||
Tim Johnson | 46% | |||
Walter Jones, Jr. | 46% | |||
Steve LaTourette | 46% | |||
Judy Biggert | 45% | |||
Bob Dold | 45% | |||
Chris Gibson | 45% | |||
Mike Ross | 45% | |||
Joe Donnelly, Sr. | 44% | |||
Richard Hanna | 44% | |||
Mike McIntyre | 44% | |||
Heath Shuler | 44% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 28 | Henry Cuellar | Democratic | 43% |
Tim Holden | 43% | |||
Jim Matheson | 43% | |||
Collin Peterson | 43% | |||
Jason Altmire | 42% | |||
John Barrow | 42% | |||
Jerry Costello | 42% | |||
Mark Critz | 42% | |||
Dan Lipinski | 42% | |||
Nick Rahall II | 42% | |||
Ben Chandler III | 41% | |||
Jim Cooper | 41% | |||
Larry Kissell | 41% | |||
GA | U.S. House - 2 | Sanford Bishop, Jr. | Democratic | 40% |
Dennis Cardoza | 40% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 21 | Jim Costa | Democratic | 40% |
Joe Baca, Sr. | 39% | |||
Leonard Boswell | 39% | |||
Peter DeFazio | 39% | |||
NM | U.S. Senate - Jr | Martin Heinrich | Democratic | 39% |
Brian Higgins | 39% | |||
Bill Owens | 39% | |||
Silvestre Reyes | 39% | |||
Shelley Berkley | 38% | |||
Gene Green | 38% | |||
WA | U.S. House - 9 | Adam Smith | Democratic | 38% |
Ron Kind | 37% | |||
ME | Councilor - Ward 3 | Mike Michaud | 37% | |
Ed Perlmutter | 37% | |||
MD | U.S. House - 2 | Dutch Ruppersberger | Democratic | 37% |
Russ Carnahan | 36% | |||
VA | U.S. House - 11 | Gerry Connolly | Democratic | 36% |
CT | U.S. House - 2 | Joe Courtney | Democratic | 36% |
Jerry McNerney | 36% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Gary Peters | Democratic | 36% |
CA | U.S. House - 30 | Adam Schiff | Democratic | 36% |
AL | U.S. House - 7 | Terri Sewell | Democratic | 36% |
Maurice Hinchey | 35% | |||
OH | U.S. House - 9 | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic | 35% |
John Dingell | 34% | |||
NM | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ben Luján, Jr. | Democratic | 34% |
Tim Ryan | 34% | |||
Kurt Schrader | 34% | |||
MN | Governor | Tim Walz | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 34% |
MA | U.S. House - 9 | Bill Keating | Democratic | 33% |
Niki Tsongas | 33% | |||
DE | Governor | John Carney, Jr. | Democratic | 32% |
Norm Dicks | 32% | |||
MD | U.S. House - 5 | Steny Hoyer | Democratic | 32% |
Steve Israel | 32% | |||
Jim Langevin | 32% | |||
Nita Lowey | 32% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 8 | Stephen Lynch | Democratic | 32% |
Brad Miller | 32% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Jr | Chris Van Hollen, Jr. | Democratic | 32% |
Corrine Brown | 30% |