Broke out the old spreadsheet formulas and analyzed the NRA's 2020 candidate grades nytimes.com/live/2020/09/0…
Takeaways:
- 15 congressional incumbents (8 Dem, 7 Repub) downgraded, only 5 (3D, 2R) upgraded
- For 2nd cycle in a row, more F's than A's. Before 2018, that hadn't happened in more than a decade (probably much more, but I only have full data back to 2008) nytimes.com/live/2020/09/0…
- Collin Peterson of Minnesota is now the only Democrat in Congress with an A rating from the NRA, and Jared Golden of Maine is the only one with a B. Two other Dems who got A's in 2018 — Sanford Bishop of GA and Henry Cuellar of TX — now have C's. nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/…
- Two Republicans — Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Michael Turner of Ohio — who had been A-rated and NRA-endorsed for years now have D's because they came out in favor of some gun restrictions after the El Paso and Dayton shootings last year. nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/…
All of this is consistent with the trends I found last year when I analyzed full grades from 2008-2018. Once the election is over and we know who won and lost, I'll be able to do a full apples-to-apples comparison for 2020. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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