Name That Senator
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Schumer gets all the attention. She's fairly low-key.
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49 for me, but at least I recognized everyone who is/was running in this election. NHO a lot of them. I wonder how many people who tweeted their scores had taken it three or four times until they got something sufficiently high.
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51 here. I only know Gillibrand because I live in New York – I'm unaware of anything noteworthy she's done since she led the fight to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell several years ago.
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Nice.Leander wrote:69 for me
I got 77 but it gets easier as you go along thanks to process of elimination.
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83, though as a political junkie, I expected to score higher going in. Several names that I didn't even recognize, but not being able to match recognizable names with faces on a number of others... Eh, perhaps not so surprising, even with some process of elimination, since....
A whole lot of them are powerful only in the collective, being pretty much forgettable zeroes on their own.MDaunt wrote:57
Meh. This is really the list of the most powerful people in the most powerful country on earth? For shame.
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Any individual senator has an effective veto, given the filibuster rules.RandyG wrote:A whole lot of them are powerful only in the collective, being pretty much forgettable zeroes on their own.MDaunt wrote:57
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I got 62. Had this quiz been ten years ago, when I watched C-SPAN a lot, I would've been ashamed of that. I know some of the things the newer ones have done, but don't have the face recognition I once did.
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I think she mainly known for winning Hilary's old seat.Vermonter wrote:51 here. I only know Gillibrand because I live in New York – I'm unaware of anything noteworthy she's done since she led the fight to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell several years ago.
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92. The ones I missed were the backbenchers, some old, some young. For quite a few of them, even if I didn't know who they were, I was able to eliminate most or all of the wrong answers. I consider US politics as one of my strongest areas, but I'm not quite at the "identify Mike Enzi from his photo" level.
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I had to guess at literally like 90 of them. I got a few right due to process of elimination of already-used names. I like that one of their last names is Whitehouse.
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78. I think I got all but one of the female senators, but some of the male ones I either didn't recognize, or I just guessed. A lot I knew cold, others it was process of elimination. Got really lucky with Mike Lee from Utah by noticing the Beehive State flag in the background.
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It's been a while since it was worth knowing who all the senators are. If you can't identify the ones from your own state, you probably didn't take the quiz-and aren't a member of this forum-anyway.
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Or your senators aren't in there.BJON wrote:It's been a while since it was worth knowing who all the senators are. If you can't identify the ones from your own state, you probably didn't take the quiz-and aren't a member of this forum-anyway.
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In recent years she's been extremely vocal and active in trying to pass legislation on sexual harassment in the military.Bamaman wrote:I think she mainly known for winning Hilary's old seat.Vermonter wrote:51 here. I only know Gillibrand because I live in New York – I'm unaware of anything noteworthy she's done since she led the fight to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell several years ago.
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True, that there are rules that allow individual senators to exercise a veto power, but it's an extreme measure, is rare, and can make far more enemies than friends. Filibuster and other similar parliamentary rules are most effective in the collective.MDaunt wrote:Any individual senator has an effective veto, given the filibuster rules.RandyG wrote:A whole lot of them are powerful only in the collective, being pretty much forgettable zeroes on their own.MDaunt wrote:57
Meh. This is really the list of the most powerful people in the most powerful country on earth? For shame.
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That, and senators from low-population states in the West.9021amyers wrote:80/100. There are too many old white guys in Congress to tell them all apart.
I got 80/100 as well. Several photos had clues in the form of portions of the senator's state flag.
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There's a lot of overlap between those two criteria.Blue Lion wrote:That, and senators from low-population states in the West.9021amyers wrote:80/100. There are too many old white guys in Congress to tell them all apart.
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Oh I definitely recognized the flag, but it wasnt showing the state in the choices. As I mentioned I got John Hoeven from the flag but that's only because I knew John Hoeven was from ND. If I didn't know he was from ND, the flag wouldnt have helpedBlue Lion wrote:That, and senators from low-population states in the West.9021amyers wrote:80/100. There are too many old white guys in Congress to tell them all apart.
I got 80/100 as well. Several photos had clues in the form of portions of the senator's state flag.
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I recognized Hoeven by the mustache.dhkendall wrote:Oh I definitely recognized the flag, but it wasnt showing the state in the choices. As I mentioned I got John Hoeven from the flag but that's only because I knew John Hoeven was from ND. If I didn't know he was from ND, the flag wouldnt have helpedBlue Lion wrote:That, and senators from low-population states in the West.9021amyers wrote:80/100. There are too many old white guys in Congress to tell them all apart.
I got 80/100 as well. Several photos had clues in the form of portions of the senator's state flag.
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I have prosopagnosia as well, and I have no clue about all those new Republicans anyway, so I didn't bother taking it.
Carol Anne, on the other hand, got all 100. But she should have.
Carol Anne, on the other hand, got all 100. But she should have.