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While on my adventure in Kos land, I got to thinking. People talk about Records a lot—they say things like, Obama doesn’t have much of a record and it’s super duper liberal, or, Hillary’s succeeded in crafting a fairly moderate voting record over the years., or even, McCain’s record, despite what they tell you, is rather conservative.

That kind of thing.

The other thing people (politicians mainly) say about records is that, if you would just look at my record, the whole world will be evident.

The fact is not many of us go out of our way to read up on the candidates voting history. So I decided to present the BHO and HRC records side by side here.

Keep in mind that missed votes often say volumes more than the voted votes. It’s like McCain saying he’s a social conservative when he’s tried to avoid all the key social conservative votes—the misses matter.

We’ll start with Barack. He’s missed something like 40% of his votes:

Here is the list of his missed votes. I got this from the Washington Post.

This is how he voted on key issues.

Now it’s Hillary’s turn. She’s missed about 30% of her votes. Her voting data on key issues is here.

The point was to compare the two, so let me give you some more numbers.

The first discrepancy arises on 7/26/07. Voting took place on a bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002. The bill was supported by both the D’s and the R’s. Hillary voted yea or aye … Barack didn’t vote.

Then on 6/11/07, a bill that would have made former Attorney General Gonzales official Senate-anathema came to the floor. The D’s lacked 7 votes, according to the Washington Post. Hillary voted with her party, Barack was busy that day.

7/29/05—Hillary voted no on a bill that was supported by both parties. Obama voted with the majority.

3/10/05—Hillary missed this one. Obama voted no on the bill that would’ve made it harder for people to eliminate debt by bankruptcy.

2/10/05—Hillary voted no. Obama voted yes with Republicans on the bill that “sought to curtail the ability of plaintiffs to file class-action lawsuits against corporations by making cases that were filed in multiple states the responsibility of federal courts.“

I still need to go back further, but so far there doesn’t seem to be much difference between the two. Maybe that’s why they keep playing identity politics, making ad hominem attacks, and picking apart each others words to the last modicum.