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Blue Dogs get a lot of shit from left, and Parker Griffith’s recent defection to the GOP has been stirring it up.
But as Nate Silver explains, the picture is more mixed:
What makes a congressman valuable to his party? One fairly intuitive answer is that it’s someone who votes with his party on key pieces of legislation more often than a typical congressman from his district would.Check out how he gets those numbers.[..] 12 of the 25 most valuable Democrats are Blue Dogs.
[..] 8 of the 21 least valuable Democrats are Blue Dogs.
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A politicians value is rated by how well he serves his district and how the voters in the district feel about him. It might be different in other areas of the country, but most candidates in this area do not run for office while displaying a political party alignment. They will attend parades with signs telling who they are, and maybe what they are running for, but rarely do you see a Republican or Democratic sign. A politician is put into office, and kept there by a satisfied constituency not a national party affiliation, Joe Liberman would not be a senator.