'"Most liberal senator" myth lingers . . .'

From Salon's Blog Report.

Despite debunking, reporters and detractors dog Obama on National Journal rating - While exploring whether a center-left presidential candidate can win with a progressive policy agenda, the NYT noted: "Can such a majority be built and led by Mr. Obama, whose voting record was, by one ranking, the most liberal in the Senate last year?" And that came shortly after James Dobson issued an alert to his religious right membership about the National Journal rating, and that came shortly after Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster and strategist, repeated the right’s talking point. I’d hoped previous efforts to highlight how foolish this might have had an effect, but it appears some highly misleading talking points are harder to knock down than others.