The contention was whether or not Tulsi is a progressive - she's not. She is to the *right* of Clinton based on her congressional voting behavior (which is what a DW-NOMINATE* score measures). The point here is how do you reconcile supporting someone who's not really what they're claiming to be while you scorn someone who's the same or ideologically better? What is the excuse for someone having an extremely conservative voting record when they represent a blue stronghold?
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NOMINATE (scaling method) - Wikipedia
NOMINATE (an acronym for Nominal Three-Step Estimation) is a
multidimensional scaling application developed by political scientists
Keith T. Poole and
Howard Rosenthal in the early 1980s to analyze preferential and choice data, such as legislative roll-call voting behavior.
[1][2] As computing capabilities grew, Poole and Rosenthal developed multiple iterations of their NOMINATE procedure: the original D-NOMINATE method, W-NOMINATE, and most recently DW-NOMINATE (for dynamic, weighted NOMINATE). In 2009, Poole and Rosenthal were named the first recipients of the
Society for Political Methodology's Best Statistical Software Award for their development of NOMINATE, a recognition conferred to "individual(s) for developing statistical software that makes a significant research contribution".
[3] In 2016, Keith T. Poole was awarded the Society for Political Methodology's Career Achievement Award. The citation for this award reads, in part,
"One can say perfectly correctly, and without any hyperbole: the modern study of the U.S. Congress would be simply unthinkable without NOMINATE legislative roll call voting scores. NOMINATE has produced data that entire bodies of our discipline—and many in the press—have relied on to understand the U.S. Congress."
And you don't have the principles you pretend you do in your sanctimonious posts.