TweetIt measures support for the Bush administration over 7 1/2 years. McCain is in the middle of Republicans, and is not by far the most supportive of Bush. In fact, Obama even supported Bush 40 percent of the time...and that's in just 3 1/2 years. Considering the number of key votes he's missed, I'd say that number is pretty telling. Also, for some perspective, the most conservative Dem supported Bush over 70 percent of the time.
Where has he differed from Bush? McCain didn't agree with Bush on the use of torture when interrogating POWs and he also pushed hard for the troop surge while Bush was initially against it...obviously, Bush eventually caved. Also, McCain has expressed displeasure with how large the federal government has become under the Bush administration. McCain also was heavily against a federal ban on same-sex marriage. There's more but that's all I've got for now...
EDIT: 3 1/2 years of Obama's career in Senate are measured...and he's essentially missed the last year while campaigning.
1. Mac has never voted for an earmark and will veto everyone you can take that to the bank (this is not just a slogan).
2. Mac has crossed the isle and really worked with Dems and Inds to get bills passed easy to find any number of bills.(even if I dont agree with them)
3. He will find and clean out the waste (bush would not, he did everything for the support of the war and signed whatever was handed to him)
4. He will listen to the people like the border fence, he really liked the bill he wrote but has really listened to the people and will put the fence up before working on his comprehensive immigration policy. (BO plans to just drop it)
5. Mac will change how we deal with our allies, he knows these leaders (unlike Bush did or does).
6. Mac will listen to strong leaders in the Military and not try to pick a path and never look back.
7. Mac knows the his party is sick of the out of control spending and size of the govt and will work to keep both small.
You will find the vast majority of votes in the house and senate involve changing the names of post offices, congrats to sports teams, making up useless holidays and so on. So the fact is BO votes with Bush alot but over 90% with the liberal rating, the rest of the time he was running for office he never crosses party and does what he is told.
Iraq will be over sooner than later and Congress won't hold the sway with Mac and his veto pen.
McCain vote with Bush quite a bit, it's true. But so did MANY Democrats - remember "bipartisanship"? The figure is a silly figure as it's the BIG controversial votes that count, not the percentage.