Best Working, Most Compatable U.S. Senate Team

[rbt48]

Please consider the two senators representing each of the fifty states.  Then decide which state has the two senators who are the most politically compatible, friendly with each-other, and best at working together to meet their constituents needs.

It will be interesting to see in the results what state with senators from the opposite party ranks the highest.  Or, perhaps will one of the 36 states with both its senators from the same party necessarily be most frequently chosen in this totally unscientific poll?  The 14 states with senators from different parties are Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.  (For this poll, let's consider Sanders (Vermont) and King (Maine) to be Democrats.)

[Miles]

I'd say MN overall for some reason.

For split states I'd say WV - Capito is towards the moderate end of the caucus and Manchin tends to be very postpartisan.

[SATW]

I'd say MN overall for some reason.

For split states I'd say WV - Capito is towards the moderate end of the caucus and Manchin tends to be very postpartisan.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Maybe MD? WA?

For split states, probably ME (King + Collins) or WV

IL is also pretty good. Kirk even refused to endorse Oberweis last year until Joe Walsh directly threatened a primary challenge.

[Brittain33]

Wouldn't Mark Warner and Tim Kaine have a good relationship from their time in state government?

[Crumpets]

Close call between Washington and Tennessee. Voted Tennessee.

[rbt48]

I picked Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker of Tennessee.  Corker may well have lost his Senate race in 2006 except for advice and campaign managers provided by Alexander.  They are both more moderate types of Republicans and I'd guess that they cast their Senate votes pretty much the same on all issues.  It would be interesting to compare their actual voting records.

[ElectionsGuy]

I voted Tennessee. Both of them are big government "RINOs", so that works really good.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

King and Collins

[Horsemask]

Maine. Love both of them.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Maine. Love both of them.

[Free Bird]

Maine. Love both of them.

But we must pay our respects to the bygone days of Snollins, boys. Those were legendary.

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

I'm obviously impartial to California. Boxer and Feinstein chair each others' reelection campaigns, and they're the first female duo in the Senate. They're usually on the same page, although they are definitely their own persons.

[Maxwell]

Oklahoma now. Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, for two very staunchly conservative Republicans, were a bad fit. Inhofe was a porker and cravenly anti-gay and anti-climate science, while Coburn was a staunch fiscal hawk who largely abandoned social issues towards the end of his term. Coburn's replacement however, James Lankford, is a far better fit with Inhofe than just about every other Oklahoma officer out there. Very conservative, but not really fiscally minded, very religious, not offended by pork in the slightest. So those two will go together well for however long Senator Inhofe plans to stay in office - I suspect he will stay until he dies.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Maine. Love both of them.

But we must pay our respects to the bygone days of Snollins, boys. Those were legendary.

Yeah, but those two famously resented each other.

[Free Bird]

Maine. Love both of them.

But we must pay our respects to the bygone days of Snollins, boys. Those were legendary.

Yeah, but those two famously resented each other.

Yes, but that made it interesting. They put their differences aside for the sake of their State and for bipartisanship. King and Collins seem legitimately buddy buddy and that makes it boring. Kind of ironic considering 94

[100% pro-life no matter what]

I know Tennessee better than most other states, but Alexander and Corker have the same beliefs on just about everything.  I wish they would fight for social causes a bit more, but they are really not bad Senators (I don't have any desire for a libertarian-leaning candidate).

[MT Treasurer]

I know Tennessee better than most other states, but Alexander and Corker have the same beliefs on just about everything.  I wish they would fight for social causes a bit more, but they are really not bad Senators (I don't have any desire for a libertarian-leaning candidate).

I honestly think Mark Clayton is more conservative than Bob Corker and probably would have voted for him in 2012, even though I disagree with him on the gay marriage issue.

[PAK Man]

As odd as it sounds, Grassley and Harkin were actually a really good team. They legitimately seemed like they were friends, and both of them almost always voted for Iowa's best interests. I can't think of any specifics off the top of my head, but I know both have broken with their parties before to vote for/against something that impacted the state.

You'll notice they also never really campaigned against one another. Grassley never took an active role in defeating Harkin, and vice-versa.

[Figueira]

Maine. Love both of them.

But we must pay our respects to the bygone days of Snollins, boys. Those were legendary.

Yeah, but those two famously resented each other.

Yes, but that made it interesting. They put their differences aside for the sake of their State and for bipartisanship. King and Collins seem legitimately buddy buddy and that makes it boring. Kind of ironic considering 94

It was interesting because they were so similar in terms of ideology, but they didn't get along.

[Bojack Horseman]

Call me biased, but ideologically, Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow are tightly aligned.

[Horsemask]

Maine. Love both of them.

But we must pay our respects to the bygone days of Snollins, boys. Those were legendary.

Yeah, but those two famously resented each other.

Yes, but that made it interesting. They put their differences aside for the sake of their State and for bipartisanship. King and Collins seem legitimately buddy buddy and that makes it boring. Kind of ironic considering 94

Ah yeah, I keep forgetting that the governor race in 94 featured both of them as candidates. Happened a few years before I moved here.

[Kingpoleon]

Split states:
1. Maine
- King Collins I
2. Ohio
- Brown is an O'Malley progressive; he's extremish, but bipartisan, and his fellow Senator is Rob Portman
3. West Virginia
- Capito and Manchin are two of the best Senators

United States:
1. New York
- Schumer & Gillibrand
2. Tennessee
- Corker & Alexander
3. Arizona
- McCain & Flake

Voted Ohio.

[Vega]

Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz get along quite well, you can tell Hirono is mentoring him, too.

But nothing beats Inouye-Akaka. They got on really well.