Update: McCain Selects Gov. Sarah Palin as Running Mate

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by firstdown

He did vote 90% in 2007 I'm talking about the entire 6 years.

Exactly, that's the key point.

You can come up with statistics to say whatever you want, 83% of all people know that. Count the democratic campaign amongst that 83%!

McCain has voted consistently with Bush most recently in 2007 and kind of fallen in line with him. But Bush was right on the troop surge (gasp, did he say Bush was right?).

McCain opposed Bush a lot more often early on in Bush's presidency, back when Bush was doing almost all of the damage that earned him his 29% approval rating. Instead of looking at McCain and Bush over the entire two terms, the democrats are simply framing a soundbyte by taking one year of data out of context.

Statisticians have a word for practices like this: biased sampling.

Gee, imagine that, the Democrats might produce a stat biased towards themselves. And yet so many true blues buy it hook line and sinker without even a thought. "How different can Bush and McCain be if they vote together 90% of the time." Gee, thanks for putting careful thought into who you plan to vote for, you're doing a true service to the United States of America.