to be "scored"

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

Pretty standard usage.  When a PAC or interest group wants to let
congressmen know that they will pay attention to the votes cast on a
particular bill, they will "score" it.  I first heard the term WRT NRA
interest in gun control bills.  If they score a bill, and you vote the
wrong way, NRA will let its membership know that you aren't doing right.


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> A Republican PAC said that a certain politician taking a different
> point of=  view than theirs on an issue "will be scored".  That
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> Tom Zurinskas=2C Conn 20 yrs=2C Tenn 3=2C NJ 33=2C now Fl 9.
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