A recent LTE to The Forum accused NH Democrats of being anti-business. The accusation came because a candidate rating site called Project Vote Smart used ratings submitted by the BIA to find that 70 percent of NH Democrats received a zero rating for support for business. The average for all Democrats was a rating of 6.2. Many Republicans, on the other hand, received ratings of 100 percent with an average of 87.4. Do those numbers make you question the size of the sample? They should. Turns out there were only two votes used to determine the rating out of the hundreds of bills deaing with business seen by the legislature every year. [Project Vote Smart also used some weird conversions to get percentages.]
To see the original article accusing Dems of being anti-business, click here
To see my response relating to the validity and credibility of Project Vote Smart click here
To see my response to the specific allegations about Democrats, check back tomorrow. I will post that link as soon as it goes active in The Forum.
