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XX Factor's Political SAT

Some of the other "XX Factor" women and I took that interactive quiz Abby mentioned from the Center for American Progress in order to find out how progressive we are. Turns out, we are quite the bunch of liberals. (I know: shocker). Twelve of us took the quiz, and on a scale of 0 to 400 (0 is the least progressive; 400 is the most progressive), we came out with an average score of 245. To put that in context, the mean score for liberal Democrats is 247 and 160.6 for conservative Republicans. Our median is somewhere in the mid-290s; our high is 313, and our low is 112.

Abby, I don't know what Meghan McCain's score on the progressiveness scale would be, but here's an interesting tidbit on Ms. McCain from Think Progress. Apparently this morning on Fox and Friends, Meghan said that she thought the earmarks in the spending bill were "disappointing and scary" while she found the prospect of a second stimulus package nonsensical. This is in direct contrast to what Meghan said last night on The Rachel Maddow Show (bold from Think Progress):

McCAIN: Spending freeze? You know, econ—economic things, I said this last night on Hannity, I said is my—I didn’t even take econ in college. I don’t completely understand it so I’d hate to make a comment one way or the other. That’s—truly of all the things—I keep reading and I just don’t understand it.

She seems to understand it just fine when she's criticizing Democrats!