How can we find out the truth...has McCain voted 95% of the time with Bush?

Question

How can we find out the truth...has McCain voted 95% of the time with Bush?

Answer 1

False.

The president doesnt have a vote.. He is in the executive branch.

Answer 2

He started out as a Republican maverick -- in 2005 he voted with his party only 81% of the time in 2005, but by 2007 he was the Bush administration's most reliable Senator, with a 95% record.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Probably, but what is your point? You should be happy. George Bush is one of the most liberal presidents to come along in years. Heck, he created the biggest new entitlement since Johnson's great society and approved budgets filled with so much pork that we've now got a historic deficit. You tell me that's not liberal. AND, he aggressively supported amnesty for illegals. Again, liberal. And what's more, the only times McCain didn't vote with him was because McCain felt he wasn't liberal enough!

Heck, Obama probably would have had a similar 95 percentage too if he'd been in congress long enough, but it's tough for the Chicago Kid seeing as how he's only been a senator for something like six weeks.

There are a number of conservative web sites with the stats or links to them. So I hope that helps.

Answer 5

Yes. And 95% of the time Obama wasn't around to even cast a vote.

Answer 6

In 2007. Like the surge in Iraq that worked. Have you noticed that the Democrats haven't mentioned Iraq in the convention? You think maybe its because Obama and Biden voted against it? Seeing that the Democrats have had control of the House and Senate since 2006 a lot of Americas problems sit squarely on their shoulders. New minimum wage laws, failure to pass Social Security reform and education reform to name a few. Lets not forget the energy bills the Dems have defeated during Bush's administration.

Answer 7

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).

Answer 8

check their voting records...... believe me though, its true!

Answer 9

How much of the time did Obama vote with 9% Harry Reid?

In reality, the President doesn't vote. He doesn't write legislation. The last 2 years, ALL the legislation came out of a Democrat controlled Congress.

Your question is seriously flawed and therefore irrelevant.

Answer 10

Last time I checked, President don't vote in congress.

Answer 11

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is...