New "Primary Colors" website shows the Tea Party how not to be stupid

[Adam Griffin]

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So it uses scoring models to assess the district's voters at-large and then correlates that to some proprietary measurement of how liberal or conservative the member of Congress is. It then spits out a score that shows which candidates deserve to be primaried the most.

http://www.primarycolors.net

In case you don't feel like signing up:

Primary Score of 9 or 10: MUST BE Primaried

Cuellar TX-28
Costa CA-16

Primary Score of 6 - 8: SHOULD BE Primaried

Bustos  IL-17
Vela  TX-34
Maffei  NY-24

Primary Score of 3 - 5: COULD BE Primaried

Foster IL-11
Schneider IL-10
Lipinski IL-3
Bishop GA-2
Peters CA-52
Green TX-29
Cooper TN-5
Owens NY-21
Gabbard HI-2
Sewell AL-7
Smith WA-9
Green TX-9
Maloney NY-18
Richmond LA-2
Duckworth IL-8

Primary Score of 1 or 2: Should Be More Progressive

Kilmer WA-6
Veasey TX-33
Clyburn SC-6
Fattah PA-2
Ryan OH-13
Kaptur OH-9
Rangel NY-13
Meeks NY-5
Grisham NM-1
Ruppersberger MD-2
Visclosky IN-1
Loebsack IA-2
Scott GA-13
Carney DE-AL
Perlmutter CO-7
Vargas CA-51
Cardenas CA-29
McNerney CA-9

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I remember when I was a "progressive".

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I remember when I was a "progressive".

Give it a month ...

[Cory]

I remember when I was a "progressive".

We know, we know....

[Flake]

I remember when I was a "progressive".

What is your ideology?

[Cory]

I remember when I was a "progressive".

What is your ideology?

Partying like it's 1917.

[publicunofficial]

Ignoring the freshmen who are voting moderately until they feel safer (Bustos, Peters, Duckworth, ect.) it seems like a pretty good list. Especially Jim Costa, who is basically a Democratic version of Richard Pombo.

[muon2]

lol at 5 of the 12 IL Dems showing up on the list. They make up 1 in 4 of the top 20 on the list.

[King]

I remember when I was a "progressive".

Yes, you've progressed quote nicely into adolescence.

[free my dawg]

Looks good to me. If Cuellar was in a district like Farenthold's I wouldn't mind, but it's time for him to go. Lipinski's actually a better fit for his district than meets the eye (IIRC it's very liberal but very socon too). I'd put Cooper and maybe Vela up higher.

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I'd add Eric Swallwell to the list. True, he's likely more liberal than anyone on the list, but he's more conservative than 2/3rds of Congressional Democrats, and is bigoted against atheists, and is in a San Francisco bay area D+16 district.

Only problem is the stupid top two system, so the challenger would likely lose in the general with the help of Republicans.

[morgieb]

Looks good to me. If Cuellar was in a district like Farenthold's I wouldn't mind, but it's time for him to go. Lipinski's actually a better fit for his district than meets the eye (IIRC it's very liberal but very socon too). I'd put Cooper and maybe Vela up higher.

Isn't Farenthold's district Safe R? Or are you talking about the one from 2010?

[Skill and Chance]

The thing with Cooper is that TN is a simple-majority veto override state.  If he is replaced by a full on liberal, the Nashville district will be gerrymandered away at the next opportunity.  Democrats would want someone like Tim McGraw in that seat after Cooper retires/runs statewide.  He would have crossover appeal in the rural areas and legislative Republicans would still be afraid of endangering an R seat for nothing as they were in 2010.     

[HAnnA MArin County]

But, we need the Tea Party to keep being stupid and eating their own so that we can stay in power.

[Badger]

The thing with Cooper is that TN is a simple-majority veto override state.  If he is replaced by a full on liberal, the Nashville district will be gerrymandered away at the next opportunity.  Democrats would want someone like Tim McGraw in that seat after Cooper retires/runs statewide.  He would have crossover appeal in the rural areas and legislative Republicans would still be afraid of endangering an R seat for nothing as they were in 2010.     

Cooper already is a full on liberal to the TN GOP. Why would they avoid gerrymandering the district away regardless? Didn't they also largely do so after 2010?