Study Finds That GOP Sen­a­tors Are More Con­ser­v­a­tive Than Pre­de­ces­sors

Study Finds That GOP Senators Are More Conservative Than Predecessors

The U.S. Sen­ate has become more polar­ized dur­ing Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s tenure, with Democ­rats and Repub­li­cans increas­ing­ly play­ing the role of hard-lin­ers even though lead­er­ship on the Repub­li­can side of the aisle remains mod­er­ate, accord­ing to a new study from the CPAC Foundation’s Cen­ter for Leg­isla­tive Account­abil­i­ty.
The group assigns scores to law­mak­ers based on how often they took the more con­ser­v­a­tive posi­tion — Democ­rats vot­ed the con­ser­v­a­tive posi­tion only 2% of the time, where­as Repub­li­cans took the c …