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Either 90 or 95 Percent of the Game is Half Mental
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] According to factcheck.org , John McCain voted with President Bush 95 percent of the time. Other things of note: Obama's votes were in line with the president's position 40 percent of the time in 2007[, according to CQ]. And: Also, Obama voted in line with fellow Senate Democrats 97 percent of the time in 2007 and 2005, and 96 percent of the time in 2006, according to CQ. ...

Obama: "I'm the Uniter"
Who's Wrong Today — ... Here's the proof. If you asked the average American how often Obama agrees with Bush, what do you think they'd say? On average, I'd bet the number would be pretty low. The facts are that Obama agrees with Bush 40% of the time. ...

George S. McCain
Daily Kos — When you vote with the failed policies of George W. Bush 95% of the time, even some of your most ardent supporters have a hard time telling you apart: In a slip of the lip echoing a misstatement 20 years ago, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey cast Tennessee's 55 votes at the Republican National Convention for "George S. McCain." Ramsey, chairman of the delegation, said Friday that he was concentrating on the first part of his floor statement, wherein he recalled that George Bush in 2000 defeated Democrat Al Gore Jr. in Tennessee, then lapsed into an ...

Cristina Chang: An Open Letter To Senator Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Yes, I'm voting for you in November because of the issues, but if you think that voters can't possibly vote for McCain despite his 95% support for Bush, you are, bluntly put, wrong. More than a few voters are still holding out hope that McCain will revert to the "old" maverick in him once he is in office. You are not going to win by exploiting your opponent's weakness, especially when many are willing to overlook it. You have to win by letting them know what you stand for, how you're going to help them, and why change doesn't mean a risk, it means applying the common sense that ...

Flashback: Steve Carrell Nails McCain On Pork-Barrelling
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... like Sarah Palin's speech is pretty much word for word, I'd bet that McCain's going to reiterate the same points that he made yesterday — including his attack on his "opponent" that he's never stood up to his party (which isn't quite true when you consider that lil' ol' Iraq war vote, but also, McCain's party was the party of the Bush administration so therere *may* have been a bit more to stand up for, which I'm sure he can be proud of having done approximately 5% of the time. Sheesh. ...

Party Man or Maverick?
The Next Right — ... is not Bush. The Dems tried that messaging and it didn't work. It seems to me to be even more unlikely to work now. Sarah Palin is not Bush.  McCain and, to a lesser extent, Palin have launched attacks on Washington and the GOP in a way that Barack Obama is not doing and is probablty not capable of doing against his own party. While Obama attacks McCain for voting with the President 90% or 95% of the time (depending on time scale) and with the Republican Party 90% of the time, that same measurement shows that " ...

Run Your Own Paid Media Campaign (Seriously)
Open Left - Front Page — ... advice of Open Left commenter Will, rather than just complaining about this state of affairs, I decided to start running my own ads. Instead of feeling disempowered by narratives I can't do much to change and messaging that doesn't speak for me, now I have my own anti-McCain ads. The two ads will appear across the entire state of Pennsylvania, on about three-dozen different Google keyword searches for John McCain and Sarah Palin. It feels really good, too. Here are the ads: It is my money, my message, my targeting. Based on the keywords ...

Awesome, fun facts about John McCain!
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — H/T to Craig Newmark via ProgressiveAccountability.com: 95 percent of the time McCain voted with George W. Bush in 2007.  100 percent of the time McCain voted with George W. Bush in 2008 so far.  164 lobbyists McCain enlisted to set policy and raise money for his campaign.  100 years - the time John McCain thinks U.S. forces must stay in Iraq.  ...

Run Your Own Paid Media Campaign, Day 2
Open Left - Front Page — The first day's results for my personal paid media campaign are in. My ad on John McCain went very well: An explanation of these numbers, along with details on what I learned about these ad buys today, can be found in the extended entry. The first row in the second picture shows the overall results for the ad. The second row shows the search engine results, and the third row shows the content network results. Overall, since I launched it about 27 hours ago, my "McCain is 95% Bush" ad scored 10,314 impressions (page views where it ...

Run Your Own Paid Media, Day 3
Open Left - Front Page — ... new McCain ad, in order to compare it's performance to my first McCain ad. As I promised earlier today, here is the new ad: Ad reports and comparisons in the extended entry. After only a couple of hours, the second ad has already shown real results: The two images are to be read as a single table, but it was too wide to put it into a single image. The first three rows show the results for the first McCain ad: And the second three rows show the result for the new ad I produced only about ...

Run Your Own Paid Media, Day 5
Open Left - Front Page — Here is the latest update on my personal ads, looking only at how they performed since Friday: McCain Ad #1: 8,935 search impressions 46 click thru's Average cost per click: $0.57 McCain Ad #2: 8,816 search impressions 46 click thru's Average cost per click: $0.60 I created the second ad in order to see if I could make one that performed better than the first ad. As it turns out, their performance is almost identical. So, instead of dropping one and replacing it with a new ad, I have decided ...

USA Today: When it comes to bipartisanship, McCain’s your man
Sister Toldjah — ... his party on numerous occasions (surely, Obama has seen this??), and ignores the fact that he has voted with a Democratic Congress that has a 9% approval rating 97% of the time and as the USA Today rightly points out, there’s very little bipartisanship to show with that 97% voting-with-the-left record, unlike McCain’s repeated gestures to reach across the aisle even with the 85% voting-with-GWB number. In fact, that number is misleading, considering what Fact Check says about a couple of years of McCain’s ...

Factcheck.org: It's true that McCain voted 9% of the time with Bush
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — From Factcheck.org, an independent site that both campaigns cite as a legit source: Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time? The Obama campaign keeps claiming McCain has voted with President Bush 95 percent of the time. Is this true? Is this significant? A: Yes, it's true, according to Congressional Quarterly's assessment of McCain's voting record. Sen. Barack Obama has attempted to use the Arizona senator's voting record against him in statements like this: Barack Obama (June 3): It's not change when John ...

Why McCain Shouldn't Be President
Shakesville — ... that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously," Mr. McCain said in an interview with The Washington Times aboard his campaign plane en route from New Hampshire to Ohio. "Those are just some of them," he said with a laugh, chomping into a peanut butter sandwich as a few campaign aides in his midair office joined in the laughter.This would be the same John McCain who voted with Bush 95% of the time. Does that make him 5% maverick?

Personal Paid Media: Pile It On
Open Left - Front Page — ... get started on one now. If you are already running one, I'd love to hear about it in the comments. And, whether you are just starting one or if you have already started, check out this great guide on how to improve your campaigns--Chris For the final weekend push, when most undecided voters will be searching for candidate information online, Natasha and I are now running the following ads: --First, we started running a Presidential ad again: This ad is running across the entire state of Pennsylvania. During it's history, this ad ...