A few days ago Nicholas Beaudrot pulled together some great data. He took each House Democrat’s DW-NOMINATE score and it compared it to the Cook PVI of his or her district. As a result, you can see who is left-wing relative to his district and who’s right-wing relative to his district. A quick visual summary:
One clear result of this inquiry is that the statewide races that Artur Davis and Kendrick Meeks are running are pulling both of them well to the right of their districts. You also see that Bobby Bright, though he has a very conservative voting record, is clearly pulling his district to the left. By contrast, Gregory Meeks, Laura Richardson, Jane Harman, and Dan Lipinski are all putting together voting records that are considerably more conservative than their districts.
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