Is it true McCain voted with Bush 95% of the time?

A few facts...The Obama campaign is dedicated to the idea of McCain voting with Bush 90% of the time. That line works because the masses aren't paying attention. Has it occurred to anyone that George Bush doesn't have a vote in the Senate? So, how then do you measure the percentage of times that McCain is voting "with" the president? Well, maybe you could measure the number of times a Senator votes with the Republican members. Ahhh ... but remember - most Senate votes are unanimous. This would mean that the only way not to "vote with the president" would be not to vote at all. Dick Morris commented: "The fact that McCain backs commending a basketball team on its victory doesn't mean that he is in lockstep ideologically with the president." How true.Morris also points out a series of important issues on which Bush and McCain did not agree:- McCain fought for campaign finance reform (McCain-Feingold) that Bush resisted and ultimately signed because he had no choice.- McCain led the battle to restrict interrogation techniques of terror suspects and to ban torture.- McCain went with Joe Lieberman on a tough measure to curb climate change, something Bush denies is going on.- McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts when they passed.- McCain urged the Iraq surge, a posture Bush rejected for years before conceding its wisdom.- McCain favors FDA regulation of tobacco and sponsored legislation to that effect, a position all but a handful of Republican senators oppose.- McCain's energy bill, also with Lieberman, is a virtual blueprint for energy independence and development of alternate sources.- After the Enron scandal, McCain introduced sweeping reforms in corporate governance and legislation to guarantee pensions and prohibit golden parachutes for executives. Bush opposed McCain's changes and the watered-down Sarbanes-Oxley bill eventuated.- McCain has been harshly critical of congressional overspending, particularly of budgetary earmarks, a position Bush only lately adopted (after the Democrats took over Congress).Using the same methodology that Obama uses, you would probably find that most Democrat senators also voted with Bush 90% of the time as well.

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