Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., got a rude awakening this week after a major study revealed the truth about her reputation in Congress.
Simply put, it’ll be a hard pill for her to swallow.
According to a nonpartisan survey from the Center of Effective Lawmaking, AOC was ranked among the “least effective” Democrats in Congress.
Out of all the liberals in Congress, she ranked 230th out of 240.
In her home state of New York she ranked dead last…
The survey notes that while many of her proposed bills were labeled as “substantive,” none of the sponsored bills she proposed ever made it to a floor vote, none of them were ever passed, and none even made it past committee.
Vanderbilt political scientist Alan Wiseman’s words suggest that although she was active, her policies just weren’t very popular.
“It’s clear that she was trying to get her legislative agenda moving and engage with the lawmaking process,” he said.
“But she wasn’t as successful as some other members were — even among [other] freshmen — at getting people to pay attention to her legislation.”
And an unnamed colleague of Ocasio-Cortez spoke to the New York Post, shedding some light on the fact that her brash social media celebrity style doesn’t exactly translate to policy.
“Tweeting is easy, governing is hard,” they told NYPost. “You need to have friends. You need to understand the committee process, you need to be willing to make sacrifices. Her first day in Congress … she decided to protest outside of Nancy Pelosi’s office.”
So the survey seems to confirm what Republicans across the aisle have been saying for years now — that AOC’s popularity isn’t policy. And it never will be.
But the fact that Democrats are now noticing could be dangerous for her.
What use will they have for an ineffective House seat?
The Horn editorial team