Rounding out the large blocks in the Senate with Methodists, Baptists, and Lutherans

• Methodist and United Methodist - 11 - Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico), Richard Burr (R-North Carolina), Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Johnny Isakson (R-Georgia), Richard Lugar (R-Indiana), Jerry Moran (R-Kansas), Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Pat Roberts (R-Kansas), Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama), Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) (7 Republicans, 4 Democrats)

Bingamann F-

Burr B-

Inouye F-

Iskason B

Lugar D

Moran A

Nelson B+

Portman (no grade but career D+)

Roberts A-

Sessions B+

Stabenow D-

2 A's 4 B's 3D's 2 F's

Largely a Democrat (bad) Republican (less bad) split.  Amusingly Inouye is F- rated---being a native Hawaiian himself you think he'd know better!  How did unrestricted immigration work out for the Hawaiians?  This group is pretty much the median of America as a whole.

• Baptist and Southern Baptist - 10 - Roy Blunt (R-Missouri), John Boozman (R-Arkansas), Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi), Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John McCain (R-Arizona), Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas), Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) (9 Republicans, 1 Democrats).

Blunt B+

Boozmann A+

Coburn B-

Cochran C+

Graham B+

Grassley B+

McCain B+

McConnell B+

Pryor B-

Wicker B+
1 A, 8 B's and a C.  This group frankly rocks.  Even the Democrat is a B-.  While their denominational leadership in many cases is flaky, their political elites are generally faithful to the demographic interests of their coreligionists.  There is definitely a strong Scots-Irish influence here as well.

• Lutheran - 4 - Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota), Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) (3 Democrats, 1 Republican).

Brown B-

Johnson (R-Wi) (No Grade)

Johnson (D-SD) F-

Merkley D-

Another median group like the Methodists.


For reference, it should be noted that in general, Presidential Candidates are worse than Senators (Bachmann has the best rating at a B-, Romney is a C-, and everyone else is worse, sometimes a lot worse).  In turn, Representatives tend to have better grades than do Senators (only 5% of the Senate is A rated, 21% of the House is).