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Making McCain's (lack of) Voting Record An Issue
http://www.openleft.com/ showDiary.do?diaryId=7979
For quite some time we have been noting that the Republicans ran a hugely obstructionist strategy in the Senate, running up a record total of cloture motions. McCain, in his effort to cast himself as some kind of trans-partisan agent of change was of course fully on board with this agenda. Further, McCain by far, leads the pack of senators for votes skipped during the 110th Congress. McCain skipped 63.8% of votes. He beats out stroke sufferer Tim Johnson, and both Obama and Clinton in the midst of their epic struggle who all still managed to attend a majority of votes.
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John McCain - missing in action in the Senate
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6874We can mull over Sarah Palin's slim pickins of experience, but let's get back to the man at the top of the ticket. In a slam-dunk post of over at Open Left, Daniel de Groot points to the missing-in-action record of John McCain in the Senate. He has
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