John McCain Voted With George W. Bush 100% Of The Time In 2008

[swag]

Cliff Schecter discusses the Mavericky voting record at firedoglake:

... "2007, however, was a particularly "mavericky"" year, as he only supported President Bush 19 out of every 20 times (95%). Therefore, if you subract 5% from 82% (or the % who think things are headed in the wrong direction), McCain was only taking us in the wrong direction about 78% of the time in 2007."

[blondeatlast]

1. Get thee to the "Greatest" page! As an Arizonan, I've often thought the "maverick"

thing was to cozy McCain up to the then emerging mom-Goldwater types here in the desert; now I'm fairly certain of it.

[Disturbed]

2. This is shocking news!

[rurallib]

3. I am shocked! I didn't even think McMaverick had voted in 2008

Thought he was always conveniently out of town.

[craz3z]

4. Ha!

And that's when he actually shows up to vote! If you count his missed votes as "no" votes he'd be closer to 99% with the prez, I bet.

Check http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2008/03/john-mccains-in.html">this out from "Ideology and Congress" by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal:

"There are, to be sure, occasional mavericks in Congress... John McCain (R-AZ), normally one of the very most conservative members of the Senate, has been the worst fitting member of the Senate in each of his eight Senates, most notably the 103rd (2001-02), where he frequently voted with the Democrats, perhaps in pique over losing the race for the presidential nomination in 2000.

Given the pace of events, it would be possible for the major dimension to show rapid legislator shifts. In our dynamic model, very rapid shifts are foreclosed by our imposition of the restriction that individual movement can only be linear in time. This restriction fails to capture a few cases. For example, John McCain (R-AZ) started as a conservative, became a moderate after losing the Republican nomination to George Bush in 2000, and recently reemerged as very conservative (my emphasis). McCain is an exception..."

I love Cliff, BTW, as well as FDL.

*BOING*