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Q: Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time?
A: Yes, it's true, according to Congressional Quarterly's assessment of McCain's voting record.
FactCheck.org: Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time?
Factcheck.org: Yes, its true McCain votes with Bush 95% of the time
Q: Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time?
A: Yes, it's true, according to Congressional Quarterly's assessment of McCain's voting record.
FactCheck.org: Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time?
John McCain used to have integrity.
He gave it up when he lost in 2000.
Since then he has been a lyin sack of s***.
At least McCain once had integrity. Obama never did, and never will.
I was going to side with McCain, until he picked the scary freak for a VP. Biden with Obama balances them out, I love honesty but Obama's ideals are too out there for me and too unorganized.
Eh, I don't mind a lot of Palin's views. They're a bit extreme, but so are Obama's. Palin's not running for President, Obama is. I also know that a lot of Palin's extreme ideas would never be voted into laws, while Obama's could be.
True, but the choice of VP shows some of their own personal ideals. Often ones they won't voice themselves. There is a chance that McCain actually follows Palins extremism, but won't show those colors until in office, while there is a slim (very slim) chance Obama may be able to put his own aside and vote with the people instead of for the people. I don't think Obama has 'no plan' as they accuse him of, I honestly fear he is just trying to keep people from knowing what his real plan is, which is a more frightening thought if you think about it.
Q: Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time?
A: Yes, it's true, according to Congressional Quarterly's assessment of McCain's voting record.
FactCheck.org: Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time?
To think that McCain is a closet Bible thumper suggests you know very little about McCain. Palin was clearly not his first choice for VP, because if he had his way, he'd be running with Joe Lieberman. But choosing someone like Lieberman was a sure-fire way to lose this election, because it completely alienated the Republican base. He had to choose someone the neocons could relate to, and Palin clearly was that choose. Again, she's a bit TOO far right for me, but Obama's even farther left, so is his running mate. At least McCain has a moderate history.
Neo Cons are NOT far right. Again for the slow, they are democrats that the far left alienated and marginalized. They are still left of center on many issues but find the Republicans closer to their major views.
I can not believe you guys keep claiming they are far right.
Shoot, I hate it when I'm wrong. I thought it was 90%.
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The claim is true. According to Congressional Quarterly's Voting Studies, in 2007 McCain voted in line with the president's position 95 percent of the time the highest percentage rate for McCain since Bush took office and voted in line with his party 90 percent of the time. However, McCain's support of President Bush's position has been as low as 77 percent (in 2005), and his support for his party's position has been as low as 67 percent (2001).
Democrats are, of course, attempting to make the case that a vote for McCain is a vote to continue the policies of Bush, whose approval ratings are, to put it charitably, not a political asset for McCain.
Is 95% "Significant"?
As for whether voting with Bush 95 percent of the time last year is "significant," that's a matter of opinion that we leave to readers to determine for themselves.
When doing so, they may wish to consider that Obama's votes were in line with the president's position 40 percent of the time in 2007. That shouldn't be terribly surprising. Even the Senate's Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, voted with Bush 39 percent of the time last year, according to the way Congressional Quarterly rates the votes.
The McCain campaign points out that Obama told a local TV interviewer recently that "the only bills that I voted for, for the most part, since I've been in the Senate were introduced by Republicans with George Bush." Obama was actually wrong about that. In 2006 he voted alongside the president 49 percent of the time, and in 2005, the year before Democrats took control of the Senate, Obama voted with the president only 33 percent of the time.
Also, Obama voted in line with fellow Senate Democrats 97 percent of the time in 2007 and 2005, and 96 percent of the time in 2006, according to CQ.
And so . . .
So to sum up, McCain has indeed voted to support the unpopular Bush 95 percent of the time most recently, but less so in earlier years. And Obama has voted pretty close to 100 percent in line with fellow Democrats during his brief Senate career.
Considering the fact that Bush is one of the worst Presidents for refusing to veto any bill that crosses his desk, and since Democrats control both houses of Congress -that means no bill reached Bush's desk that the overwhelming majority of Democrats didn't also approve first. Obama didn't buck his party on this stuff -not even once.
Wouldn't that mean that Obama actually voted close to a 100% of the time with everything Bush signed? LOL
umm you might want to get your facts right frazzle... Bush didn't veto any bill for the first five years, when the Repubs controlled both houses. Now he vetos shit all the time.
Obama isn't running as a maverick either so I'm not sure why people expect him to buck his party? He's not trying to reinvent himself as some non-partisan outsider whose been fighting the corruption in washington all these years only to be "forced" to go along with the politics as usual.
McCain's record speaks for itself. He can try to run from it but there it is. 95% of the time he voted with the worst President in modern history.
