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September 03, 2008

Voting Absent
Posted by Patrick Barry

Rudy Giuliani is laying into Barack Obama for voting "present." He may want to look closer at John McCain's senate record, since Senator McCain voted "absent" 60% through spring of this year:

"Through last week, McCain had missed a nice, round 60.0 percent of Senate votes so far in the 110th Congress. After Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.), who was absent for several months following a brain hemorrhage, comes Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who lay well behind McCain with 41.8 percent of votes missed. Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), a former presidential candidate, was fourth, followed by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who had missed 31.7 percent.

One of McCain's most egregious absent votes came this past May, when he missed the vote on the GI bill to provide veterans returning from Iraq with better education benefits.  Absent a lot and doesn't support education benefits for veterans.  Not exactly a record that inspires. 

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