http://www.kringg.com/wordpress/archives/693 by Kyle Ringgenberg Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:01:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.kringg.com/wordpress/archives/693/comment-page-1#comment-7232 Adam Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:55:33 +0000 http://www.kringg.com/wordpress/?p=693#comment-7232 That's actually not all that surprising, depending on what voting records they're looking at. McCain's voting record, at least up to 2000, doesn't line up nicely along the Republican party line (he's been trending back toward them, thus the "voted with President Bush 90% of the time" line that half of the Democratic speakers used). Barack Obama, by contrast, is very much a liberal (and one of the big successes of his campaign so far has been to play that down, since "liberal" is apparently a dirty word now). That’s actually not all that surprising, depending on what voting records they’re looking at. McCain’s voting record, at least up to 2000, doesn’t line up nicely along the Republican party line (he’s been trending back toward them, thus the “voted with President Bush 90% of the time” line that half of the Democratic speakers used). Barack Obama, by contrast, is very much a liberal (and one of the big successes of his campaign so far has been to play that down, since “liberal” is apparently a dirty word now).

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