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She will be 91 the next time she is up for re-election. Hopefully she’ll finally retire instead. I’ve been hoping for that for over a decade.

Feinstein could not have been re-elected if it weren’t for overwhelmingly strong support for her in Silicon Valley.

If she is up for re-election again, please vote for the other candidate (who will probably also be a Democrat!). Also, tell your friends.

She wants to ban encryption. Her voting record is further to the right than many republicans. She votes according to Trump’s wishes more than any other Democrat in the senate.



I agree with you about Feinstein, but:

> Her voting record is further to the right than many republicans. She votes according to Trump’s wishes more than any other Democrat in the senate.

This seems to imply she's in the middle of the pack for her democratic peers as it relates to Trump's wishes: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/


I think you’re misreading it. It’s sorted by Trump affinity, and there is only one Democrat higher than her (she used to be at the top, but has been dethroned by a large margin by one Democrat).


No, the default sort is "Trump plus-minus" which takes into account what percentage of the state voted for Trump. The idea is that if 50% of the state voted for Trump, a senator from that state should vote along with Trump 50% of the time, giving a zero plus-minus.

Such a low percentage of people in CA voted for Trump (2nd lowest after Hawaii) that a middle of the pack Democrat will be high in the default sort. The same for senators from Hawaii, who are 4th and 5th with the default sort.




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