Media Reality Check -- 07/26/2000 -- IS CHENEY EXTREME NEXT TO GORE?

For Immediate Release: Katie Wright (703) 683-5004 - Wednesday, July 26, 2000

"MOST CONSERVATIVE" VS. "NOT A LIBERAL IN SIGHT"?

IS CHENEY EXTREME NEXT TO GORE?

"A close look at his ten years in Congress reveals that Cheney was one of its most conservative members, say analysts who have looked at his record."
-- ABC's Linda Douglass, July 25 World News Tonight.

Vs.

"That's the ticket. Not a liberal in sight, and that's the picture Clinton wants the convention to leave with the country, Democrats happily moving from their liberal past to their centrist future."
-- ABC's Jim Wooten, July 13, 1992 World News Tonight.

COMPARE:

DICK CHENEY'S ANNUAL AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION RATING:

1979: 89	1980: 74	1981: 87	1982: 91	1983: 91
1984: 90	1985: 100	1986: 100	1987: 86	1988: 100

AVERAGE: 90.8

AL GORE'S ANNUAL ACU RATING:

HOUSE: (AVERAGE 19.6)

1977: 29

1978: 13

1980: 11

1981: 13

1982: 29

1983: 20

1984: 22

SENATE: (AVERAGE 10.4 )

1985: 17

1986: 9

1987: 6

1988: 9

1989: 19

1990: 9

1991: 14

1992 (based on 15 of 25 ACU votes): 0

AVERAGE: 14.6

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