[Last updated: 7/16/10]

By popular demand, for your amusement we hereby present the official Friday Talking Points statistics.

The first list is the Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award list, which is followed by the Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week award list.

[This page is new, and I expect to improve it soon, so I ask you to forgive the unfinished nature for now.]

All-time totals for number of MIDOTW awards received. The numbers within brackets after their names are the FTP Volume numbers when they won. Within each ranking, names are ordered by when they won their last award.

(19) -- Nineteen -- (19)

Barack Obama -- [13] [18] [31] [40] [42] [45] [51] [54] [62] [67] [74] [93] [97] [103] [108] [109] [117] [128] [129]

(11) -- Eleven -- (11)

Nancy Pelosi -- [19] [23] [25] [26] [69] [87] [90] [92] [97] [101] [117]
Chris Dodd -- [6] [8] [17] [37] [49] [72] [78] [86] [106] [111] [119]

(8) -- Eight -- (8)

Harry Reid -- [10] [46] [69] [104] [113] [114] [117] [121]

(7) -- Seven -- (7)

Hillary Clinton -- [14] [18] [22] [29] [57] [79] [118]

(4) -- Four -- (4)

Joe Biden -- [10] [12] [32] [50]
Henry Waxman -- [15] [33] [56] [82]
Sherrod Brown -- [52] [92] [112] [122]
Bernie Sanders -- [73] [77] [85] [123]

(3) -- Three -- (3)

Russ Feingold -- [36] [48] [55]
Dianne Feinstein -- [30] [48] [73]
Patrick Leahy -- [12] [65] [74]
Barney Frank -- [49] [82] [90]
Al Franken -- [59] [84] [95]
Dick Durbin -- [11] [75] [98]
Howard Dean -- [60] [85] [105]
Byron Dorgan -- [73] [104] [106] [61]
Carl Levin -- [58] [73] [110]

(2) -- Two -- (2)

John Conyers -- [33]
Jim Webb -- [34] [73]
Change Congress -- [81] [83]
George Miller -- [82] [86]
Charlie Rangel -- [82] [86]
MoveOn -- [83] [88]
Ted Kennedy -- [38] [91]
Alan Grayson -- [95] [96]
Jeff Merkley -- [76] [112]
Progressive Change Campaign Committee -- [83] [115]

(1) -- One -- (1)

Dave Helfert -- [7]
The Lone Filibusterer (none) -- [9]
John Edwards -- [16]
Bill Richardson -- [24]
Jack Murtha -- [24]
Janet Napolitano -- [27]
Mike Stark -- [28]
Barbara Boxer -- [30]
Dennis Kucinich -- [35]
Al Gore -- [39]
Deval Patrick -- [41]
AFL-CIO -- [43]
Brave New Films -- [43]
Obama's "War Room" -- [44]
Craig Ferguson -- [47]
Tina Fey -- [53]
Lilly Ledbetter -- [63]
Barbara Lee -- [64]
Pat Quinn -- [66]
Ellen Tauscher -- [68]
Unnamed House Democrats pushing filbuster-proof "reconciliation" for healthcare reform -- [70]
Tim Geithner -- [71]
Maria Cantwell -- [73]
Arlen Specter -- [75]
Bob Graham -- [78]
Sonia Sotomayor -- [79]
Health Care for America Now! -- [83]
SEIU -- [83]
Charles Schumer -- [85]
Jay Rockefeller IV -- [94]
Jerrold Nadler -- [94]
David Catania -- [96]
Organizing For America [99]
Bill Owens -- [100]
Eric Holder -- [102]
Bill Clinton -- [107]
Michael Bennet -- [112]
Kirsten Gillibrand -- [112
James Clyburn -- [116]
Blanche Lincoln -- [120]
Ted Kaufman -- [122]
Joe Sestak -- [124]
Joe Lieberman -- [125]
Patrick Murphy -- [125]
Ron Sparks -- [126]
Salon.com -- [127]
One Nation -- [130]
Bill Halter -- [131]

No award was given, for various reasons, a total of ten times -- [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [9], [20], [21], [80], [89].

All-time totals for number of MDDOTW awards received. The numbers within brackets after their names are the FTP Volume numbers when they won. Within each ranking, names are ordered by when they won their last award.

(16) -- Sixteen -- (16)

Harry Reid --[12] [17] [37] [45] [49] [54] [55] [57] [76] [78] [87] [91] [100] [102] [109] [111]

(10) -- Ten -- (10)

Ben Nelson -- [19] [48] [71] [72] [83] [86] [96] [121] [129] [131]

(8) -- Eight -- (8)

Barack Obama -- [36] [38] [74] [75] [77] [93] [105] [123]

(7) -- Seven -- (7)

Joe Lieberman -- [11] [27] [44] [46] [86] [101] [122]

(6) -- Six -- (6)

Jay Rockefeller IV -- [5] [8] [16] [18] [19] [51]
Dianne Feinstein -- [7] [9] [19] [60] [62] [83]

(5) -- Five -- (5)

Max Baucus -- [19] [81] [83] [88] [94]

(4) -- Four -- (4)

Mary Landrieu -- [19] [48] [83] [86]
Blanche Lincoln -- [19] [48] [72] [92]
Tim Geithner -- [61] [65] [73] [106]
Charlie Rangel -- [47] [56] [97] [113]
Rahm Emanuel -- [85] [95] [110] [127]

(3) -- Three -- (3)

Hillary Clinton -- [22] [29] [34]
John Edwards -- [24] [31] [43]
Illinois legislature Democrats -- [59] [66] [67]
Roland Burris -- [66] [67] [79]
Kent Conrad -- [19] [48] [83]
Charles Schumer -- [6] [9] [96]
Thomas Carper -- [19] [48] [104]
Rod Blagojevich -- [58] [63] [107]
Nancy Pelosi -- [36] [49] [109]

(2) -- Two -- (2)

Pat Leahy -- [4] [6]
Daniel Inouye -- [19] [30]
Tim Johnson -- [19] [48]
Mark Pryor -- [19] [48]
Ken Salazar -- [19] [48]
Evan Bayh -- [19] [72]
Ron Wyden -- [83] [86]
Martha Coakley -- [107] [108]
Eric Massa -- [114] [115]
Jim Webb -- [19] [125]

(1) -- One -- (1)

Richard Scruggs -- [10]
Zach Scruggs -- [10]
Joe Biden -- [13]
Unnamed Congressional Democrats (on FISA) -- [14]
William Jefferson -- [15]
Robert Casey -- [19]
Herb Kohl -- [19]
Claire McCaskill -- [19]
Barbara Mikulski -- [19]
Bill Nelson -- [19]
Debbie Stabenow -- [19]
Sheldon Whitehouse -- [19]
Barbara Boxer -- [21]
Eliot Spitzer -- [23]
Unnamed Democratic donors who sent Nancy Pelosi a letter -- [25]
Harvey Weinstein -- [25]
Gavin Newsom -- [27]
George Stephanopoulos -- [28]
Uncommitted superdelegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention -- [32]
Unnamed "enrolling" clerk who screwed up the Farm Bill -- [33]
Steny Hoyer -- [36]
Jesse Jackson -- [39]
Democratic National Convention Committee -- [40]
Obama's "War Room" -- [42]
Democrats of the 110th Congress -- [50]
Tim Mahoney -- [52]
John Lewis -- [52]
Jack Murtha -- [53] (awarded in comments)
Jerrold Nadler -- [57]
Bobby Rush -- [60]
Democratic officeholders who skipped Obama's Inaugural Parade -- [62]
All Democratic Senators except Claire McCaskill -- [64]
Ellen Tauscher -- [68]
Sanjay Gupta -- [68]
Unnamed person (Harry Reid?) who screwed up 2009 Omnibus Budget Bill -- [68]
Eight unnamed "centrist" Senate Democrats -- [70]
Melissa Bean -- [72]
Eric Holder -- [73]
Leon Panetta -- [74]
Terry McAuliffe -- [79]
Tom Daschle -- [82]
The "Blue Dog" Democrats -- [88]
Ted Kennedy -- [90]
Jim Manley (Harry Reid spokesman) [98]
Alan Grayson [99]
Dick Durbin -- [112]
All Senate Democrats who haven't yet signed Michael Bennet's letter on the public option -- [112]
David Paterson -- [113]
Bart Stupak -- [114]
Thomas Porteous -- [116]
Nick Levasseur -- [118]
Babette Jospehs -- [120]
Richard Blumenthal -- [124]
Dianne Wilkerson -- [126]
Bob Etheridge -- [128]
Jerry Brown -- [128]
Democratic National Committee -- [130]

No award was given, for various reasons, a total of fifteen times -- [1], [2], [3], [20], [26], [35], [41], [53](awarded in comments), [69], [80], [84], [89], [103], [117], [119].

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-- Chris Weigant