Barack Obama towers as the most far left progressive person running for president. And this isn't the spin of some enthusiastic supporter (in fact I've been leaning a bit towards Edwards since Michael Moore praised him), this is the objective assessment of the prestigious and authoritative National Journal which examined the totality of each candidates actual votes in three broad areas: Social issues, economic issues, and foreign policy issues.  When life time scores were compiled by the New York Times political blog, amazingly Obama towered over even ultra progressive Kucinich.

Senator Barack Obama......................84.3
Representative Dennis Kucinich........79.4
Senator Christopher J. Dodd .............79.2
Senator Hiliary Rodham Clinton ......78.8
Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr...............76.8

Source:  http://www.majorityrules.org/blog/2007/0 3/senator-barack-obama-more-liberal-than .html

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