Originally Posted by attaboy

"John McCain calls himself a maverick, but he votes with George Bush more than 90% of the time...that's not a maverick, that's a sidekick." Sen. Bob Casey

Obama's campaign runs and ad where McCain is saying he's voted with Bush 90% of the time. True. What was McCain responding to when he said that? He was responding to the accusation he wasn’t a conservative. What does that 90% say about McCains voting record, not that he voted with Bush since Bush can't vote in the Senate and notably had at the time never used the veto. So all it says is that McCain voted for bills that successfully became Law. That is a negative spin by Obama - again accurate but it completely misstates the situation. You see Bush signs a bill into law after it has been passed by Congress.