Mccain same as Bush.....Really?

With the fact that Obama voted with the dems 97% of the time,does that mean he is the same as all the other dems? No bipartisanship?

Senior research scientist John Lott at the University of Maryland writes in The Philadelphia Inquirer "the 90 percent figure from Congressional Quarterly is nonsensical" and says most of those votes were just procedural. He adds, "Obama might want to be a little careful with these attacks, as the same measure has him voting with Democrats 97 percent of the time."

He cites research from the right-leaning American Conservative Union, the liberal Americans for Democratic Action and the non-partisan National Journal. It indicates that from 2001 to 2007, McCain voted to the left of most Republican senators and to the right of most of his Democratic colleagues. Americans for Democratic Action even says McCain voted liberally 24 percent of the time - twice as much as the average Republican.

Unlike Bush, McCain supports a cap-and-trade program that would set a national ceiling on carbon emissions.

McCain has called for a "great national campaign to put us on a course to energy independence," adding that the next president must be willing to "break completely" with the energy policies of previous administrations.

 McCain opposes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, once a top goal for Bush.  McCain said the federal ban on offshore drilling should be lifted, allowing states to pursue energy exploration off their coasts.

Bush opposes a windfall profits tax on oil companies. McCain has voted against similar taxes in the past, but this month he said he was "angry at the oil companies not only because of the obscene profits they've made but at their failure to invest in alternate energy."

McCain has sought to emphasize his differences with Bush by portraying himself as a stronger opponent of pork-barrel projects and other wasteful spending. He says he would not sign any earmarked projects into law and would cut financing for ineffective programs.Bush has so far allowed earmarks in spending bills, but signed an executive order this year directing federal agencies to ignore earmarks that Congress did not vote on.  McCain would also put a one-year freeze on discretionary spending, except veterans benefits and the military.

McCain, distancing himself from  Bush, said he would pursue a new arms control accord with Russia. His proposal to eliminate tactical nuclear weapons in Europe and his calls for nuclear talks with China set him apart from the president as well.

In 2006 Mccain supported a trio of U.S. Senate bills designed to increase federal funding for adult stem cell research, ban the creation of embryos for research and offer federal support for research using embryos slated for destruction by fertility clinics. In 2007 he voted to allow research using human embryos left over from fertility treatments.