Sure Reps. Jay Inslee (D-1, WA), Dave Reichert (D-8, WA) and Norm Dicks (D-6, WA)  have their own YouTube channels. But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA, 5) is winning the YouTube ratings war against her colleagues. 

Indeed, the office of longtime Democratic Congressman Inslee may have 50 videos posted on YouTube, which dwarfs the 21 posted by McMorris Rodgers. But McMorris Rodgers—whose page has only been up for a year—already has considerably more page views than any one else in the delegation.  Her most popular, at 12,200 views, has 11,000 more than the telegenic Inslee's most viewed.

McMorris Rodgers' videos, most of them shot directly in front of a camera or at small Eastern Washington press conferences, display the kind of D.I.Y. bravado that, in her second term, has helped catapult her to party leadership (she's the Vice-Chair of the House Republican Conference).

The vids—like "Opening Remarks at the Deep Vein Thrombosis Press Conference"  or "McMorris Rodgers on Father's Day"—aren't just the  typical three-minute clips of House testimony provided by our other Reps. While most members of Congress gank their YouTube videos from C-SPAN, McMorris Rogers' are originals (in that she sits down with the camera to talk about everything from down syndrome to hydroelectricity). 

"They add a lot more emotion and feeling than a standard press release does," McMorris Rodgers spokesman Destry Henderson says.

And people watch them, too. Even a toss-off shaky video of McMorris Rodgers walking down a Capitol corridor before Obama's big speech, shot with a handheld camera, has scored 1,200 or so views—as many views as Reichert or Inslee's most watched.