Since its founding in November of 2009 Liberty Central has proven to be one of the most tech savvy and refreshing conservative organizations out there. Their website is superb. Their principles are spot on and articulated in a way that you don't need a masters degree to understand. Now they're rolling out a 2010 election guide which looks highly interactive and highly promising. As a part of this guide they've rolled out new scorecards. The scorecards are a great metric for conservative voters, particularly national security and fiscal conservatives, to judge the members of congress who are supposed to be representing them. Here is how Liberty Central describes their ratings:
Liberty Central compiled scores for all Representatives, in order to help both the grassroots and us here at Liberty Central determine which Representatives have the most respect for our five principles: limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, free enterprise, and national security. Scores were calculated as follows. 1 point for each vote that contradicted our five principles (e.g., growing the size of government, weakening our national defense, or taking measures against the free market). 1 additional point for sponsoring or co-sponsoring one of the aforementioned bills, since the Representative proudly attached his or her name to that measure. 1 point for opposing legislation that supports our five principles (e.g., refusing to grant the EPA power to regulate carbon emissions). In other words, the higher the score, the worse we rated the Representative. We tallied points for each Representative and assigned grades based on the following scale: A=0 to 1 points, B=2-3 points, C=4-6 points, D=7-8 points, F=9 and above. If a Representative missed 4 or more votes, we adjusted his or her grade by the percentage of votes the Representative actually cast, and this adjusted letter grade is marked with an asterisk (*).
But don't take my (or their) word for it. Go check out the scores yourself. Here are the house scorecards. Here are the senate scorecards.