We've had several diaries on the relative merits of these two. And generally from people who have too much emotion regarding this race which has led to bias. So in the spirit of playing nice (and reporting results that I like), Here's some info from Progressive Punch.
Since they are distant from individual races if not neutral, perhaps their analysis will give a truer picture.
In their analysis, on 13/15 issues Sen Akaka gets the higher score. Only the issues of family planning, where Case scores 100 to Akaka's 94 and the issue of the environment where Case noses out Akaka 81 to 77 is Case more progressive.
Link
http://www.progressivepunch.org/...
have a look at the data for yourself but here's a few bits that interested me:
Overall Score Case Akaka Inouye Landrieu
75 91 82 74
Lieberman scores 76... Only 5 Dems in the Senate have a lower score than Case. In the House, Ed Case is #163 out of 202 Dems. He fits in down with the Dems from the Deep South. Not a surprise since he joined the Blue Dog Caucus.
***** abercrombie overall scored 87 ****
On a couple of issues that matter to me
Case Akaka Inouye Abercrombie
War/Peace 65 93 79 87
People/Powerful 74 96 90 83
Health Care 79 98 88 98
The odd man out is easy to spot.
It's an interesting site. Given the large gap between the worse Dem and the best R, I suspect they've put in some votes that are too procedural but the rankings intra party should be good.