Mike Castle's Liberal Love Affair Revealed

The Amercians for Democratic Action list Mike Castle as one of the most liberal Republican. The newsletter's tag line is a newsletter for liberal activists.

Here is the 2009 report: http://www.adaction.org/media/votingrecords/2009.pdf. By their admission Castle voted 55% in line with the Democrats in 2009.

If you go back one year, Castle supported them 65% in 2008. Here is that report: http://www.adaction.org/media/votingrecords/2008.pdf (HINT: Change the year of the pdf label and you get the previous year's report).

Here is the summary since he's been in Washington:

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 55% of the time in 2009

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 65% of the time in 2008

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 50% of the time in 2007

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 40% of the time in 2006

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 40% of the time in 2005

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 50% of the time in 2004

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 40% of the time in 2003

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 25% of the time in 2002

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 30% of the time in 2001

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 30% of the time in 2000

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 55% of the time in 1999

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 30% of the time in 1998

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 50% of the time in 1997

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 25% of the time in 1996

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 5% of the time in 1995

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 20% of the time in 1994

By the ADA's admission Mike Castle has support the ADA 20% of the time in 2009

ANALYSIS:

- Mike Castle's BEST year was in 1995, following the historic GOP sweep that handed Congress to the Republican Party
- Mike Castle has progressed over time to voting more in line with the Democratic Party than of his own Republican Party
- 2008 was the year when Mike Castle sided with the Democratic agenda 65% of the time.
- Mike Castle has side with the Democratic agenda 6 years fifty percent or more of the time (1997, 1999, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009)