kolanuraven said:
If I remember right it was the voting record since the war in Iraq began. I'd say they used that as a starting point since that's his 'push button' topic it seems.
Either way, life time or not....pretty sorry record!
I have not found any lifetime results but what I found was McCain has missed 49.2% of the votes in the
current 110th congress. That would mean in the last 5 months.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/senate/vote-missers/
109th congress he missed 9% .
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/109/senate/vote-missers/
108th congress he only missed 1.8% of the vote which is pretty exemplary. Same congress Kerry missed 72%
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/108/senate/vote-missers/
107th Congress McCain missed 5.2% another good year
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/107/senate/vote-missers/
106th Congress 29% missed
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/106/senate/vote-missers/
105th Congress 3% missed
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/105/senate/vote-missers/
104th Congress 3% missed
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/104/senate/vote-missers/
103rd Congress 4.8% missed
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/103/senate/vote-missers/
102nd Congress 2% missed.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/102/senate/vote-missers/
In summery we received a little miss information here from what I see. Overall as far as I could find on the 102nd to 110th congress McCain has not had a bad voting record. He has had a bad one in last couple months which make his average look bad for this recent 5 month old congress.
But considering all the crap the Dem's have been putting forward to vote on and knowing the president would just veto them or they had no chance of passing. I think I would miss the votes and concentrate on my election also.
I bet if you look you will find he missed the stupid go nowhere votes in the last couple months that really had no affect on anything. How many non binding bills should a person waste time on anyway?
I am not a McCain fan, but I like to be fair and look at things objectively!