Maryland Senate Ideology, 2021
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## rank Name party district economic social.crosscut
## 1 1 Susan Lee D SD-016 -0.9938 -0.1116
## 2 2 Delores Kelley D SD-010 -0.9908 -0.0951
## 3 3 Malcolm Augustine D SD-047 -0.9883 -0.1525
## 4 4 Jeff Waldstreicher D SD-018 -0.9851 -0.1717
## 5 5 Shelly Hettleman D SD-011 -0.9804 -0.1971
## 6 6 Charles Sydnor D SD-044 -0.9768 -0.1620
## 7 7 Antonio Hayes D SD-040 -0.9730 -0.2308
## 8 8 Cory McCray D SD-045 -0.9642 0.2006
## 9 9 Jill Carter D SD-041 -0.9567 -0.2909
## 10 10 Obie Patterson D SD-026 -0.9466 0.1326
## 11 11 Melony Griffith D SD-025 -0.9459 0.2667
## 12 12 Arthur Ellis D SD-028 -0.9422 0.2899
## 13 13 William Smith D SD-020 -0.9078 -0.1079
## 14 14 Clarence Lam D SD-012 -0.9024 -0.3059
## 15 15 Benjamin Kramer D SD-019 -0.8922 -0.0741
## 16 16 William Ferguson D SD-046 -0.8911 -0.0284
## 17 17 Craig Zucker D SD-014 -0.8910 -0.0281
## 18 18 Guy Guzzone D SD-013 -0.8887 -0.0211
## 19 19 Paul Pinsky D SD-022 -0.8819 -0.1084
## 20 20 Joanne Benson D SD-024 -0.8649 0.2308
## 21 21 Mary Washington D SD-043 -0.8514 -0.2524
## 22 22 Michael Jackson D SD-027 -0.8437 -0.2418
## 23 23 Nancy King D SD-039 -0.8407 0.1066
## 24 24 Douglas Peters D SD-023 -0.8391 0.0563
## 25 25 Brian Feldman D SD-015 -0.8254 0.1085
## 26 26 Cheryl Kagan D SD-017 -0.8107 -0.0646
## 27 27 James Rosapepe D SD-021 -0.8099 0.1017
## 28 28 Pamela Beidle D SD-032 -0.6020 0.1013
## 29 29 Sarah Elfreth D SD-030 -0.5924 -0.6571
## 30 30 Ronald Young D SD-003 -0.5543 -0.3152
## 31 31 Katie Hester D SD-009 -0.3755 0.3850
## 32 32 Katherine Klausmeier D SD-008 -0.2102 0.9777
## 33 33 Chris West R SD-042 0.2646 -0.8558
## 34 34 Adelaide Eckardt R SD-037 0.5761 0.8173
## 35 35 Edward Reilly R SD-033 0.5818 -0.6182
## 36 36 George Edwards R SD-001 0.6990 0.4879
## 37 37 Stephen Hershey R SD-036 0.7268 0.0429
## 38 38 Paul Corderman R SD-002 0.7299 0.3835
## 39 39 J.B. Jennings R SD-007 0.7584 0.1476
## 40 40 Mary Carozza R SD-038 0.7899 -0.2394
## 41 41 Bryan Simonaire R SD-031 0.8200 -0.1394
## 42 42 Johnny Salling R SD-006 0.8538 0.2555
## 43 43 Michael Hough R SD-004 0.9064 0.4224
## 44 44 Jack Bailey R SD-029 0.9360 -0.1662
## 45 45 Bob Cassilly R SD-034 0.9420 -0.2804
## 46 46 Justin Ready R SD-005 0.9636 0.2672
## 47 47 Jason Gallion R SD-035 0.9808 -0.1951
## ideoquantile
## 1 0.03%
## 2 0.06%
## 3 0.09%
## 4 0.12%
## 5 0.16%
## 6 0.19%
## 7 0.22%
## 8 0.25%
## 9 0.28%
## 10 0.31%
## 11 0.34%
## 12 0.38%
## 13 0.41%
## 14 0.44%
## 15 0.47%
## 16 0.5%
## 17 0.53%
## 18 0.56%
## 19 0.59%
## 20 0.62%
## 21 0.66%
## 22 0.69%
## 23 0.72%
## 24 0.75%
## 25 0.78%
## 26 0.81%
## 27 0.84%
## 28 0.88%
## 29 0.91%
## 30 0.94%
## 31 0.97%
## 32 1%
## 33 0.07%
## 34 0.13%
## 35 0.2%
## 36 0.27%
## 37 0.33%
## 38 0.4%
## 39 0.47%
## 40 0.53%
## 41 0.6%
## 42 0.67%
## 43 0.73%
## 44 0.8%
## 45 0.87%
## 46 0.93%
## 47 1%