Crunching some numbers

An article in today's Montana's Bozeman Daily Chronicle about Senator Jon Tester got us thinking.

Tester, who scored an 80% for his first session in Congress, replaced Senator Conrad Burns, a lifetime 5% voter who earned a spot on the 2006 LCV Dirty Dozen. The disparity in scores marks a huge improvement for the people of Montana and for the United States at large.

We crunched the numbers and found our 2006 campaigns helped defeat 9 out of 13 of LCV’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ members who had a combined average lifetime score of just 8%, while the new members who defeated them have a combined average score of 88%.

“Elections have consequences, and LCV’s success in helping elect pro-environment candidates already has reaped environmental policy results. We are delighted that not only do the 29 LCV-endorsed members have an impressive average score of 87 percent, but many of them also championed key legislative priorities," said our president, Gene Karpinski.