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Mitt Romney and John McCain are too conservative? That's news to everyone, including them
McCain was moderate when he ran, but he was cursed by having to distance himself from Bush (and increasing voter unhappiness with Iraq/Afghanistan) AND at the same time draw conservatives, particularly religious conservatives to the polls. That was going to be a hard task no matter what he did.
The gamble he took was pulling in Palin to use the VP slot to speak to the base, which she certainly did, but there's no question it cost him the moderates, and possibly the WH. Arguably McCain has been more conservative since 2008, but that's a) at least somewhat subjective, and b) not directly relevant to his WH campaign.
It's hard to say if Romney is conservative or not - certainly the R. primary forced everyone to compete to the right, and then he tried to tack back to center for Nov. He's a bit of a chameleon - it's hard to know what he actually believes, and what is purely political strategy. I don't think anyone can predict how he actually would have governed.
Jeanne Shaheen - votes 97% with her party. Note that the top 41 Senators voting with their party are all Democrats.
To be fair, one should point out that the current Senate doesn't bring particularly many bills to the floor. So there's little action regardless of who's voting for what.
Moreover, considering the Dems control the Senate (and bills that are controversial face filibuster/cloture), this breakout is pretty much what you'd expect. If you flipped the script and had a Repub. majority, and the same cloture/filibuster trend, bills that made it to the floor would tend to have near-unanimous approval on the R side and high to middlin' support from the minority party.
To be fair, one should point out that the current Senate doesn't bring particularly many bills to the floor. So there's little action regardless of who's voting for what.
Moreover, considering the Dems control the Senate (and bills that are controversial face filibuster/cloture), this breakout is pretty much what you'd expect. If you flipped the script and had a Repub. majority, and the same cloture/filibuster trend, bills that made it to the floor would tend to have near-unanimous approval on the R side and high to middlin' support from the minority party.
I saw a perplexing bumper sticker on a Massachusetts car today: "I'm a Scott Brown Republican". What on earth does that mean?
It means it was a woman who thinks Scott Brown is hot.
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