Third Bush Term: McCain Voted With Bush Every Time

By Eric on May 28, 2008

The McCain campaign wants to hide the fact that President McCain would just be a third term for George W. Bush. Fortunately for us, McCain’s Senate record speaks for itself:

CQ’s Presidential Support studies try to determine how often a legislator votes in line with the President’s position:

CQ tries to determine what the president personally, as distinct from other administration officials, does and does not want in the way of legislative action. This is done by analyzing his messages to Congress, news conference remarks and other public statements and documents.

So, these studies only track votes when the President has an explicit, stated opinion on a bill.

According to CQ, Senator John McCain has voted with President Bush 100% of the time in 2008 and 95% of the time in 2007:

John McCain has voted with George W. Bush every single time. That doesn’t even count votes where McCain didn’t bother to show up for (for example, Jim Webb’s GI Bill, which passed the Senate overwhelmingly but Bush has threatened to veto), and considering that McCain has missed the most votes of any Senator this year, that’s saying a lot.

Tags: 2008, George W. Bush, John McCain

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