President Carter and the Honeymooners

JOHN DRAKE and SVEND PETERSEN

One thing there would seem to be no shortage of is congressional rating indexes. There are already the ADA, COPE, ACA, NSI, NAB, LCV, and CFA indexes, to name just a few. However, although the indexers come to a wide variety of conclusions, they all start by using the same method: they decide which is the “correct” way to vote on several key bills, and they then give each congressman a numerical rating which consists of his percentage of “correct” votes.