Reply #162: This is a fabulous list...Great work. Reproduced here:

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orleans (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-14-06 03:39 AM
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Best Republican Senators: here's the list: & here's why
it took me hours to do this (in fact it took me an entire freakin day)
(bkkd = boxer, kerry, kennedy, durbin who usually vote together)

the winners:
LINCOLN CHAFEE: voted 63% with bkkd
OLYMPIA SNOW: voted 56% with bkkd
SUSAN COLLINS: voted 53% with bkkd
ARLEN SPECTER: voted 41% with bkkd (gasp!)
(call the top three for an alito filibuster)
most "conservative" was mcconnell who voted with bkkd 5.37%

MY RESEARCH:
i looked at all the votes for 2005
there were 366
i did not include the votes where a large majority voted together (around 80 or so--unless a republican voted in the minority with other bkkd)
i did not inlcude votes where all dems voted one way and republicans voted the other way.

i looked at split votes(where at least one republican crossed over with bkkd)

my baseline was boxer, kennedy, kerry and durbin (bkkd)
(on the votes where they split their vote i did not include; i did use one or two votes where durbin voted against bkk and counted any republican who voted with bkk.)

that left me with 205 votes that i looked at. out of 205, here's the republican vote count (with the "friendliest" having the most votes listed)
129 chafee
114 snowe
108 collins
84 specter
80 dewine
59 coleman
52 smith
46 talent & voiovich
45 warner
43 mccain
42 lugar
39 thune, sununu
36 hutchison
31 gregg
30 martinez & vitter
28 domenici, santorum & allen
27 graham, coburn, shelby
26 murkowski, dole & craig
25 ensign, alexander & hagel
24 roberts & bond
23 chambliss & crapo
22 enzi, isakson
21 cornyn, hatch & inhofe
20 burns & stevens
19 burr, lott, thomas
18 bennett
17 cochran
16 frist, brownback
15 sessions
14 bunning, grassley, demint & allard
13 kyl
11 mcconnell

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