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Senate Voting Record - MIA or POW
McCain became the presumptive nominee for the Republican party in March. Obama in June.
Based on this you might have expected that McCain would have voted more often than Obama.
McCain has the reputation of being a Maverick despite having voted with Bush 95% of the time in 2007. But, maybe 2008 is different...let's see.
Since mid-April there have been 100 votes in the Senate.
McCain has zero votes. That's right, on the last 100 votes in Senate he's not voted. Nadda, zilch. Apparently the Straight Talk Express doesn't come to Washington DC.
Obama has seventeen votes and on three of them he bucked the party line. We can go back and argue the FISA decision if you want, but at least he made a decision.
Source:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000303/votes/
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/o000167/votes/
Comments (1)
I don't know that 17% participation is much to crow about.
But 0%, while criticizing Obama's record .... ouch.
nice catch.
September 2, 2008 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
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