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Hardly a "Bush Clone"

Carol Platt Liebau
Carol Platt Liebau  |  September 19, 2008 9:49 AM
John Lott runs the numbers, and explains why it's such a distortion when the Obama campaign claims that John McCain is a GWB clone.  Included in the votes the Obama campaign counts when quoting the 90% figure are a number of procedural votes.
 
Running the same numbers on Barack shows that he voted with Ted Kennedy, Pat Leahy, Barbara Boxer and the rest of the Democrats 97% of the time (what's more, he has a more left-wing voting record than any of them).