Top 5 Senators

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Who are your favorite senators?

1) John Thune
2) Jim DeMint
3) Tom Coburn
4) Lindsey Graham
5) Kay Bailey Hutchinson

[Marokai Backbeat]

1. Bernie Sanders
2. Claire McCaskill
3. Dick Durbin
4. Russ Feingold
5. Byron Dorgan

Al Franken will undoubtedly hit this list in time, though, after some accomplishments.

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Of all time or current?

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Of all time or current?

current

[Lief 🗽]

1) Bernie Sanders
2) Ted Kennedy
3) Russ Feingold
4) Chuck Schumer
5) Sherrod Brown

Honorable Mentions: Jeff Merkley, Pat Leahy, Dick Durbin, Jim Webb, Byron Dorgan

[Marokai Backbeat]

How could I forget my own Senator! Honorable mention to Brown.

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1.) Feingold
2.) Dorgan
3.) Snowe
4.) Cantwell
5.) Lugar

Don't have many others tbh.

The senators of yesteryears were so much better.

[Purple State]

Schumer
Feingold
Durbin
Reed
Leahy

Honorable mention: Webb

[LastMcGovernite]

erm...

if this is a list of personal favorites, rather than an objective political analysis of the most effective senators, then...

1.  Jeff Bingaman
2.  Mark Udall
3.  Olympia Snowe
4.  Richard Lugar
5.  Byron Dorgan

[Hyperfast]

1.) Olympia Snowe
2.) Kay Hagan
3.) Blanche Lincoln
4.) Bill Nelson
5.) Richard Lugar

[TeePee4Prez]

Russ Feingold
Pat Leahy
Amy Klobuchar
Kirsten Gillibrand
Richard Durbin

Notice how I didn't pick either of mine- Ineffective social conservative & Opportunist.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Ted Kennedy
Richard Lugar
Jim Webb
Russ Feingold
Jack Reed

Hon. Mention: Olympia Snowe, Kent Conrad, Tom Harkin

[justfollowingtheelections]

Sanders and Feingold are by far the best senators.  Snowe is the only sane republican.  Menendez who is a favorite of mine and Kohl because he's such a decent guy.

[Lunar]

1. Ben Cardin
2. Mike Enzi
3. Johnny Isakson
4. Herb Kohl
5. Patty Murray

[Eraserhead]

Congrats, Lunar, you're probably the only person on earth to count Ben Cardin as his/her favorite Senator.

[Franzl]

in no particular order:

Olympia Snowe
Robert Byrd
Dick Durbin
Richard Lugar
Jim Webb

[WalterMitty]

in no particular order:

susan collins
joe lieberman
maria cantwell
ted kennedy
mark warner

[HappyWarrior]

1) Sherrod Brown
2) Ted Kennedy
3) Jim Webb
4) Kay Hagan
5) Dick Lugar

[AndrewTX]

in no particular order,

joe lieberman
dick durbin
mark warner
susan collins
dick lugar

[JSojourner]

John Kerry
Russ Feingold
Bernie Sanders
Sherrod Brown
Barbara Mikulski

These are based solely on ideology and positions on the issues.

My five favorite Republicans are...

Olympia Snowe
Susan Collins
Richard Lugar
George Voinovich
Kay Bailey Hutchson

(Really I don't agree with Lugar, Voinovich or KBH on much -- but they conduct themselves honorably in debate and Lugar, in particular, is vitally important to the country and the world {I feel} because of his insistence on accounting for and eliminating loose nukes.)

[Lief 🗽]

1. Ben Cardin
2. Mike Enzi
3. Johnny Isakson
4. Herb Kohl
5. Patty Murray

Did you intentionally pick the five most boring/uncontroversial Senators?

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Here's my new lists :

Republicans :

1) John Thune
2) Jim DeMint
3) Richard Burr
4) Kay Bailey Hutchinson
5) Tom Coburn


Democrats :

1) Kay Hagan
2) Mark Warner
3) Arlen Specter
4) Russ Feingold
5) Jon Tester


Conservatives :

DeMint
Thune
Coburn
??
?

Liberals :

Feingold

[Lunar]

1. Ben Cardin
2. Mike Enzi
3. Johnny Isakson
4. Herb Kohl
5. Patty Murray

Congrats, Lunar, you're probably the only person on earth to count Ben Cardin as his/her favorite Senator.

I tried to come up with the 5 most forgettable senators in a hurry.  Probably should have replaced Enzi with Crapo in retrospect.

[Purple State]

After watching today's Health committee markup, I give a spot in my top five to Rhode Island's Sheldon Whitehouse.

[Smash255]

1.  Russ Feingold
2. Pat Leahy
3. Jack Reed
4. Bernie Sanders
5. Barbara Boxer