| 100% | STROM | 5 | ___ Thurmond, former US senator who served for 48 years |
| 70% | STROM | 5 | Senator ___ Thurmond who served for 48 years |
| 64% | STROM | 5 | Thurmond who was a US senator for 48 years |
| 53% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | Former U.S. President who served as State Senator and U.S. Senator of 48-Across (2 wds.) |
| 51% | STROM | 5 | ___ Thurmond, former US senator who represented South Carolina |
| 47% | DOLE | 4 | Robert who served in the US Senate for 27 years |
| 44% | DOLE | 4 | Former Senator Bob or Elizabeth, each of whom once ran for US president |
| 41% | TED | 3 | Kennedy who was a US senator for almost 47 years |
| 40% | SELIG | 5 | Bud who served as baseball commissioner for 22 years |
| 38% | BYRD | 4 | Robert who was the longest-serving senator in US history, at 51 years |
| 38% | TED | 3 | Kennedy who was a senator for almost 47 years |
| 37% | KYL | 3 | Jon who served as senator for Arizona alongside John McCain |
| 37% | DIANNE | 6 | Feinstein who served in the Senate for more than thirty years |
| 37% | TERM | 4 | Six years, for a U.S. senator |
| 37% | BYRD | 4 | Robert from West Virginia, who was the longest-serving U.S. Senator in history (51 years) |
| 36% | VET | 3 | Former soldier who served in combat, for short |
| 36% | TERM | 4 | Six years for a U.S. senator, e.g. |
| 35% | MYERSON | 7 | Former Miss America who ran for the U.S. Senate in 1980 |
| 35% | VET | 3 | Former military person who's served in combat, for short |
| 35% | TERM | 4 | Six years, for US senators |
| 34% | REAGAN | 6 | Ronald ___, former U.S. President who was selected as the "Time Person of the Year" in 1980 |
| 33% | TERM | 4 | Six years, for a US senator |
| 33% | ELIZABETHDOLE | 13 | Former North Carolina senator who ran for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination: 2 wds. |
| 33% | OBAMA | 5 | Former U.S. president who won a Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Award for the audiobook of "Dreams from My Father" |
| 33% | MCCARTHY | 8 | Anti-communist former US senator Joseph __ |
| 33% | HART | 4 | Gary —, Democratic Senator for Colorado who ran in the 1984 and 1988 US presidential elections |
| 32% | TAYLOR | 6 | President who served for 492 days |
| 32% | STROM | 5 | Former US politician ___ Thurmond |
| 32% | STEVELARGENT | 12 | Seattle Seahawks wide receiver who served in the U.S House of Representatives for Oklahoma during 1994-2002: 2 wds. |
| 32% | TED | 3 | US senator Cruz for Texas |