Congressional Rankings- Analyzed
Fionia
First off, I'm testing the view counter.
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Secondly, there was one endorsement that I did not mention in my last article, because it has come to my attention since then. Herrn Sterling is running for Congress in Vermont, under the AAP banner. For those of you who don't recognize the name, he is the one who asked the presidents of other countries what they thought of the US. He is a very interesting and involved player, and his platform can be found here.
Now, to the main event:
Analyzing Congress and Congressional Rankings
There have been three articles published recently evaluating Congress. Two of these were released by CrashNBurn (Congressional Checkup and Congressional Checkup Number 2. These were polls, essentially, filled by Congressmen. Only 13 were polled for the first, and even though all Congressmen were given a chance to respond to the second, only 24 did. The other article was written by Astra Kat, and it was her personal evaluations of her fellow Congressmen.
For CnB's first article, the Congressmen were rated based on whether their peers thought they should return. The rating was done with a +, 0, or -, and then the results were tallied up. The top Congressmen (with 11 or 12 votes in their favor) on this first list were:
Arizona - Rheinlander von Phalz: +12
District of Columbia - Ligtreb: +12
Nevada - sydiot: +12
New Hampshire - Devoi😛
+12
Wisconsin - DanielC😨
+12
Colorado - Daniel Dodge: +11
Michigan - Tormo😛
+11
New Mexico - Jude Connors: +11
New York - Fionia: +11
Tennessee - Bradley Reala: +11
Virginia - Evan Feinman: +11
West Virginia - CrashNBurn: +11
In Astra's article, Congressmen were graded on an A-F scale based on her perception of their performance in and knowledge of Congress. The top Congressmen on her list (receiving A's or B's):
Nevada - sydiot: A
Arizona - Rheinlander von Phalz: A
New Mexico - Jude Connors: A
Virginia - Evan Feinman: A
Maryland - Myles Robinson: B
Massachusetts - AidenAstrup: B
Tennessee - Bradley Reala: B
Alabama - Serendipitous: B
West Virginia - CrashNBurn: B
Maine - seeker1: B
Idaho - St Krems: B
Arkansas - Killing Time: B
In CrashNBurn's second article, Congressmen were rated on a scale of 1 to 5, based on their performance in Congress. The highest score was a 4.7 here. So, the top Congressmen (scoring from a 3.9 to a 4.7 (check out the article to see why I am breaking it down this way)) were:
District of Columbia - Ligtreb - 4.7
Nevada - sydiot -4.7
Arizona - Rheinlander von Phalz – 4.6
West Virginia - CrashNBurn – 4.5
Arkansas - Killing Time - 4.5
Tennessee - Bradley Reala - 4.3
Montana - Devan Kronos - 4.2
New Mexico - Jude Connors – 4.1
Wisconsin - DanielCD - 4
Kentucky - Cerb - 4
New Jersey - Astra Kat – 4
Alabama - Serendipitous – 4
New York - Fionia - 3.9
What does this mean? Well, if you look at the three lists together, it becomes clear who the top 5 Congressmen in terms of activity and performance are: Rheinlander von Phalz, sydiot, Jude Connors, Bradley Reala, and CrashNBurn. These five were at the top of every list. There are also 6 more who were on at least two of the lists: ligtreb, Evan Feinman, DanielCD, Serendipitous, Killing Time, and myself.
Some interesting things to note about these last 6:
* ligtreb and DanielCD both got C's and I got a D on Astra's list while topping CrashNBurn's lists.
* Killing Time only got a +9 on CrashNBurn's list of Congressmen that should return, and Serendipitous only got a +5, but they ranked high for performance.
* Evan Feinman only got a 3.5 on CrashNBurn's second list, of Congressmen ranking each other on their performance, yet he was high on the "should-return" list, and one of Astra's A's.
One anomaly that should be explained is with what rankings Astra herself received. Obviously, she did not grade herself in her article, and she has also announced that she is not running again, so most abstained from voting for her on CrashNBurn's first poll. So she only appears on one list out of the three, although she should be on two if not three of them.
EDIT
Some interesting facts came to my attention in the comments of this article. According to CrashNBurn and Rheinlander, the people who responded to CrashNBurn's second poll were from the following parties:
9 - AAP responses (50% of the party's Congressmen)
8 - USWP Responses (72 - 80😵
4 - Lib Responses (57😵
3 - Fed Respones (60😵
1 - USGP Response (100😵
Thank you for your patience in reading this massive article, and I hope that this will give people a clearer and more complete picture of who the top Congressmen (and women) are.
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On an unrelated note, thank you to everyone who showed up to my eWedding. It was wonderful, and for those of you that missed it, the chat log of the main part can be found here.
Signing off,
Fionia
Comments
YEAH HERRN! HERRN FTW. FIRST!
BTW Good luck Herrn. If I wasn't running in Texas, I would definitely have your back with a vote. 😃
I also noticed that Evan Feinman (AAP - VA) was graded well below his contributions to Congress on the second Congressional Checkup. Remember that only 24 Congressmen responded the second time, and we were given no data on who they were, so name recognition could have played a factor, modulated by party affiliation and committee membership.
This is actually a very anomalous problem. My personal belief is that I've made more friends and shaped up quite a bit in between CnB's two lists, which made me top one and drown in the other. As for the others, no clue.
I only posted an explanation for Astra because that's the only anomaly I could explain. For the others, I'm just as clueless as you are.
Good article, voted.
Where's the bikini pics. at? All this argle-bargle, and no hot broad pics. at the end as reward. Just sad.
I don't think it had to do with party affiliation. 1/3 of the responses were AAP, Evans party.
9 - AAP responses
8 - USWP Responses
4 - Lib Responses
3 - Fed Respones
1 - USGP Response
jfbranson: really? Can't there be ANY corner of the internet that isn't full of porn?
Thanks for breaking it down. And congrats on your wedding!
CrashNBurn, those numbers also mean that:
50% of AAP's Congressmen replied.
72-80% of USWP's Congressmen replied.
57% of Libertarian Congressmen replied.
60% of Federalist Congressmen replied.
100% of Green Congressmen replied.
Glad to of been able to make it to the eWedding, congradulations you two! And wonderful article 🙂
Good article!
I just want to note that if I "fairly" could, I'd give a lot of people a higher grade than I did, ligtreb and Fionia in particular, because I like giving out high grades. XD
And "knowledge of Congress" had nothing to do with my evaluations because I don't see that as a measure that I really could grade... although big time names like Tormod, Zcia, and ligtreb likely would've gotten an A if that were a grading criterion. They know a ton about Congress, they just didn't show up much in Congress to regularly contribute.
But I'm guessing the main reason for differences could be because they were done at different times of the term.
Anyway, nice analysis and congratulations Fionia & Devan Kronos! Voted.
Awesome work there, and congrats to the best in the legislature.
C is for Cerb. 😃
I got a 4 i the second congressional check up, putting me o 2 of these lists.
;_; being forgotten!
JK, love you Fiona.
Sorry, Krems....it was midnight when I wrote this article. :/ If it makes you fell better, I forgot Devan at first too.