Ron Paul: The Only Presidential Candidate Telling Important Truths

[joshcryer]

43. Yes, well, OK, that's not totally true. New Dems + Blue Dogs are a majority.

83 progressives, plus 122 New Democrats and Blue Dogs.

However, many New Democrats vote with the progressives.

But it still goes without saying. In 2010 we lost 28 Blue Dogs, ergo, the overall Democratic makeup of the Congress is "more progressive."

The progressives do, however, make the largest non-party caucus in Congress (effectively made up entirely of Democrats).

83 CPC (Congressional Progressive Congress).

59 NDC (New Democratic Coalition).

26 Blue Dogs (Blue Dog Coalition), down from 54.

The Blue Dogs bloc vote with Republicans 90% of the time on military and economic issues (and civil rights issues), not necessarily social issues (which can be civil rights issues but not always).

But in the end progressives hold the single largest non-party caucus in Congress, and it only would take, say, 20 of them (plus, a compromising 10 New Dems to be realistic, since American's aren't super progressive) to take us over.