Don't Blame Bernie!

By Cernig

CQ has some very interesting figures. It has compiled a study of roll-call votes during the seven-and-a-half years of President Bush’s two terms and categorises them by Party Unity (voting the party's line) and Presidential Support (voting with the White House's wishes).

A quick look at the three Senators involved in the 2008 presidential race reveals that Obama voted with the White House 40% of the time, Biden 52% and McCain 90%.

On Party Unity, Obama voted with the absolute majority of his party 96% of the time, Biden 93% and Mccain voted along with the absolute majority of Republicans 81% ofd the time.

Arguably, the most "liberal" Senator isn't Obama, as the McCain campaign has tried to claim, but Bernie Sanders. In his shorter time in the Senate he voted with the Dem majority 97% of the time and with the White House only 23% of the time - by far and away the lowest percentage of any Senator on the latter metric. (His record in the House of Representatives is, I think I'm right in saying, even more impressively anti-Bush).

So don't blame Bernie, OK?

Comments

[Libby]

Blame him? Hell, I want to vote for him. Wish he was on the ticket.