Reply #19: I hink that the various boards sometimes pick a hero based on a vote or two or personality

[karynnj]

Here, Franken is a very junior Senator, who has not yet really had the time to have a long track record. He has taken some very good stands, but his prior life is more likely the reason he is made a hero.

Feingold's appeal is likely because he really is at least somewhat of an iconoclast. There is a very strong libertarian edge to him - that made him the lone vote against the Patriot Act, even though he said he agreed with 80% of it. He is honest and speaks his own mind. There is a lot to be impressed with by that. Feingold has a good record on the environment - http://www.russfeingold.org/news/press-releases/feingolds-record-of-getting.html but he has not been good on global warming in the last couple of years.

With any Senator, there will be votes that you disagree with - and I assume that if you and I were to take a list of votes, we would likely not agree on all of them - though, just as with the basically Progressive Senators, we would agree on a very high percent,