Nice work Mike! (both Mikes!) I love the firestorm of discussion you have sparked but I'm disappointed that few have bothered to actually read you post and think about what the data means and whe...
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Are you saying that since the nominate scores are skewed toward the majority, and the recent majority has been liberal, that all these results are skewed somewhat in the liberal direction?
Actually you are misreading the data. Nominate scores are bases on voting data data and sense the majority determines what gets voted on nominate scores are always skewed toward the majority.
What this tells us, contrary to the popular belief of "extremes on both sides", is that the most extreme on the right, and objectively extreme. And that the most extreme on the left, Warren, is.....