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Originally Posted by brutus2002
MaxBuck
Thanks for the vote record. I have more time I will actually go through that list an compare nore thoroughly. I have been working 12 hour shifts for a month now. This crap is killing me.
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Loving John McCain
Interesting article on the media influence on McCain's image, here is an excerpt:
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Indeed, the effects of past coverage can be discerned in the results of another survey released in May, by the Pew Research Center, which found that most voters described McCain as "a centrist whose views are fairly close to their own." These voters might as well be visiting Casablanca for the waters. McCain calls himself a thoroughgoing conservative, and he's got the statistics to prove it. He has voted with his party almost 90 percent of the time this term, which puts him ahead of twenty-nine other Republicans, including his Arizona colleague Jon Kyl, who ranks second in his party's leadership. According to VoteView, McCain's voting record in 2005-06 would place him second in the contest for America's most conservative senator in the 109th Congress and eighth in the 110th Senate. McCain supported Bush in 95 percent of his votes in 2007 and has managed to achieve a perfect 100 percent score so far in 2008. But voter ignorance in the case of the "real McCain" is hardly the fault of the voters. They are simply consuming news reports from media that refuse to take McCain's politics seriously.
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Here is a graphic representation of the
VoteView info referenced above. Notice that McCain is about as far right of center as Obama is left of center. Also, notice how almost nobody is in the center. The bimodal distribution shows why there is gridlock in congress. Also, keep in mind that is only a handful of votes that moves someone one way or the other. Most members of congress vote with their party 90+% of the time.