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BRAINIEST
1. Bill Frist (R-TN)
2. Robert Byrd (D-WV)
3. Richard Lugar (R-IN)
A photo finish among the doctor, the orator, and the Rhodes scholar.
NO ROCKET SCIENTIST
1. Tie: Rick Santorum (R-PA), Patty Murray (D-WA)
2. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
3. Tie: George Allen (R-VA), Jim Inhofe (R-OK)
A crowded field--more than a third of the Senate got votes.
NO ALTAR BOY
1. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
2. John Breaux (D-LA)
They lapped the field. Top GOP vote-getters were McCain and Santorum.
BEST NEWCOMER
1. Norm Coleman (R-MN)
2. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
3. Tie: Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
Democrats spread their votes among Clinton, Arkansas' Mark Pryor, Michigan's Debbie Stabenow, and New Jersey's Jon Corzine.
WORST NEWCOMER
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
2. Norm Coleman (R-MN)
3. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
Most votes were partisan shots. Staffers also dissed Pryor, Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.
HOTTEST TEMPER
1. John McCain (R-AZ)
2. Ted Stevens (R-AK)
3. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
This is Stevens's seventh appearance on the hotheads list, McCain's and Mikulski's fourth.
FUNNIEST
1. Pat Roberts (R-KS)
2. Fritz Hollings (D-SC)
3. John McCain (D-AZ)
Hollings drew no Republican votes, and Roberts got scant Democratic support. Other contenders: Kennedy, Miller, and Montana's Conrad Burns.
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BRAINIEST
1. Bill Thomas (R-CA)
2. Barney Frank (D-MA)
3. Chris Cox (R-CA)
Thomas is overwhelming choice of GOP, Frank of Dems.
NO ROCKET SCIENTIST
1. Tie: Duke Cunningham (R-CA), Katherine Harris (R-FL), Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), Karen McCarthy (D-MO), Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)
Aides scattered votes over more than three dozen choices.
NO ALTAR BOY
1. Max Sandlin (D-TX)
2. Steve LaTourette (R-OH)
3. Jim Moran (D-VA)
Moran and LaTourette debut on the list.
BEST NEWCOMER
1. Stephanie Herseth (D-SD)
2. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL)
3. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
Herseth, a Georgetown law alum, won twice as many votes as Emanuel.
WORST NEWCOMER
1. Katherine Harris (R-FL)
2. Frank Ballance (D-NC)
3. Linda Sánchez (D-CA)
Dems took revenge on a star of 2000's Florida recount.
HOTTEST TEMPER
1. Bill Thomas (R-CA)
2. Jim Moran (D-VA)
3. Pete Stark (D-CA)
Thomas had double the votes of Moran.
FUNNIEST
Barney Frank (D-MA)
2. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ)
3. Charles Rangel (D-NY)
Frank has been the funnyman nearly every year we've asked.
MEANEST
1. Bill Thomas (R-CA)
2. Tom DeLay (R-TX)
Almost all DeLay's votes were from Democrats.
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