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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Chris Gibson | 100% | |||
Pete King | 100% | |||
Michael Grimm | 98% | |||
ME | U.S. Senate - Sr | Susan Collins | Republican | 96% |
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | 96% | |||
WV | U.S. Senate - Sr | Joe Manchin III | Democratic | 93% |
Richard Hanna | 87% | |||
Mike Fitzpatrick | 82% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 28 | Henry Cuellar | Democratic | 81% |
Jon Runyan | 80% | |||
Joe Donnelly, Sr. | 80% | |||
AK | U.S. Senate - Sr | Lisa Murkowski | Republican | 79% |
Jim Matheson | 78% | |||
Kurt Schrader | 75% | |||
Charlie Dent | 75% | |||
NJ | U.S. House - 4 | Chris Smith | Republican | 73% |
OH | U.S. House - 14 | Dave Joyce | Republican | 72% |
Jim Gerlach | 71% | |||
Mark Pryor | 71% | |||
Frank LoBiondo | 70% | |||
Dan Lipinski | 70% | |||
Jim Cooper | 69% | |||
Mark Kirk | 68% | |||
Ron Kind | 68% | |||
Patrick Murphy | 68% | |||
MN | Governor | Tim Walz | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 67% |
Kelly Ayotte | 67% | |||
Tom Petri | 67% | |||
Ed Whitfield | 66% | |||
ND | U.S. Senate - Sr | John Hoeven | Republican | 66% |
Ed Perlmutter | 66% | |||
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Paul Cook | 65% | |
Aaron Schock | 64% | |||
Rodney Davis | 64% | |||
Susan Brooks | 64% | |||
PA | U.S. House - 15 | GT Thompson, Jr. | Republican | 64% |
Joe Heck, Jr. | 64% | |||
Steve Stivers | 64% | |||
Tom Latham | 63% | |||
Dave Reichert | 63% | |||
Gary Miller | 63% | |||
Frank Wolf | 63% | |||
Adam Kinzinger | 63% | |||
Pat Meehan | 63% | |||
Mike McIntyre | 63% | |||
Donald Young | 62% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Duckworth | Democratic | 62% |
Walter Jones, Jr. | 62% | |||
Bill Owens | 62% | |||
GA | U.S. House - 2 | Sanford Bishop, Jr. | Democratic | 62% |
Duncan Hunter | 62% | |||
Tulsi Gabbard | 61% | |||
Tim Ryan | 61% | |||
Ed Royce | 61% | |||
KS | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jerry Moran | Republican | 61% |
Roy Blunt | 61% | |||
NJ | U.S. House - 9 | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Democratic | 61% |
David McKinley | 60% | |||
FL | U.S. House - 25 | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Democratic | 60% |
Dana Rohrabacher | 60% | |||
Claire McCaskill | 60% | |||
Nick Rahall II | 60% | |||
John Barrow | 59% | |||
Tom Reed II | 59% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 4 | Mike Thompson | Democratic | 58% |
Leonard Lance | 58% | |||
Rob Portman | 58% | |||
AL | U.S. House - 7 | Terri Sewell | Democratic | 58% |
Joe Kennedy III | 58% | |||
G. K. Butterfield, Jr. | 58% | |||
Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. | 58% | |||
VA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Mark Warner | Democratic | 58% |
Dean Heller | 57% | |||
WA | U.S. House - 6 | Derek Kilmer | Democratic | 57% |
Joe Garcia | 57% | |||
MN | U.S. Senate - Sr | Amy Klobuchar | Democratic | 57% |
IA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Chuck Grassley | Republican | 57% |
Buck McKeon | 57% | |||
AR | U.S. Senate - Sr | John Boozman | Republican | 56% |
Ron Barber | 56% | |||
Ander Crenshaw | 56% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 48 | Darrell Issa | Republican | 56% |
IL | U.S. House - 10 | Brad Schneider | Democratic | 55% |
DE | U.S. Senate - Sr | Tom Carper | Democratic | 55% |
Tom Rooney | 55% | |||
Kay Hagan | 55% | |||
ME | U.S. Senate - Jr | Angus King, Jr. | Independent | 54% |
SC | U.S. Senate - Sr | Lindsey Graham | Republican | 54% |
Erik Paulsen | 54% | |||
ME | Councilor - Ward 3 | Mike Michaud | 53% | |
CA | U.S. House - 1 | Doug LaMalfa | Republican | 53% |
Pat Tiberi | 53% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 22 | David Valadao | Republican | 53% |
Jeff Denham | 53% | |||
Jim Renacci | 53% | |||
Steve Chabot | 53% | |||
Mike Doyle, Jr. | 52% | |||
Gregg Harper | 52% | |||
Gene Green | 52% | |||
Timothy Johnson | 52% |