I'm talking about his career, not as a presidential candidate. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not in this Congress. Thus far in the 110th Congress, McCain is tops in > missed votes. He's missed 64.1% of the votes (412 missed, 231 cast). Obama > comes in at number 3 in most votes missed at 45.9% (295 missed, 348 cast). > So Obama has cast 117 more votes in this Congress than McCain. > http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/senate/vote-missers/ > > That being said, not all votes are equal. There are a lot of votes that > don't really matter because they are unanimous voice votes, procedural > votes, resolutions to recognize the importance of the state frog of new > jersey, etc. I'm actually surprised that Obama didn't miss more votes than > McCain given the protracted Democratic primary. Since McCain wrapped his > nomination up early, I would have expected him to have more time in DC. > Still, I think it would be difficult to put together a really accurate and > meaningful set of "important" votes that showed whether they were really > showing up and doing their job. I just don't think that raw vote numbers > really conveys that though. > >
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