John McCain Misses Over Half Of Senate Votes

NY Times' The Caucus:

A protracted nominating campaign and unreliable Senate schedules have made it difficult for the presidential candidates to make it back to Washington to vote. So difficult, in fact, that Senator John McCain of Arizona has missed more than half of the roll-call votes since January 2007, more than any other senator except Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota, who spent most of 2007 recuperating from a brain hemorrhage. When Mr. McCain ran for president in 1999-2000, he missed just 30 percent of the Senate votes.

Still, Mr. McCain has a long way to go to match the number of votes Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts missed when he ran for president in 2003-4: 72 percent. He led the entire Senate, followed by Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, who missed nearly half the votes.

Read the whole story: NY Times' The Caucus

Comments

[serialcoma]

12:25 PM on 03/25/2008

Finally.. McCain has managed to do something (miss votes) the rest of the country can be satisfied with....

[queeraz]

12:21 PM on 03/25/2008

Wow! What a way to represent Arizona and do the job he was elected to do. Guess it goes along with getting a gold star for not requesting an earmark. Yep, no money for Arizona to battle the border issues, to pay for holding illegals, for state improvements, for the national parks...all the federal problems that are ignored in Washington. But, he was a POW so, look the other way and call him a hero.