A thread celebrating a great victory by the US women's Olympic soccer team got me thinking, perhaps it's time to remind anyone with a daughter or a grand-daughter, and maybe a belief that equal rights and opportunities for women JUST might be an important issue about John McCain.

Well, if are thinking of voting for John McCain, IMHO, you just lost any rights to celebrate in this victory or probably a vast majority of the other great competitive efforts put forth by America's great women's Olympic team.

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Before the end of the Democratic primary process there was much speculation about Barack Obama's support among women. The fact that Obama's support amongst women was weak while he was running against a woman candidate gave many pundits all the excuse they needed to suggest that support would remain weak once the primaries ended. They were obviously wrong, as the current polls show.

Another premise put forward by some pundits is that women vote more with their emotions than on the issues. They are as wrong about this as they are about Obama's weakness with female voters. All that is needed to disprove this claim is to look at women's voting patterns over the years.

Women have always favored the Democratic Party over the GOP. The Democratic Party is also the party with the best record and issues platform when it comes to women's issues. Put those two factors together and it becomes apparent that women have been voting on the issues all along.

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How many times do we hear about this exact term being thrown at Obama and every democrat in every presidential election, like its voodoo.  So I got to thinking that when they have these records that show - in his case 95% liberal record, do they ever check to see what his non liberal record would be( certainly not just the remaining 5%- makes no sense)? i.e. when he crosses the aisle and votes in agreement w/ republicans? Or...

How does McCain who has voted along the same line as Obama get to be called a conservative or have an conservative voting record ( well at lest in the last 8 years)

Should they not be a score to see what john McCain's liberal score is? It would be interesting if someone got to keep an account of that score. Then there is this question that lingers in my mind---How does one get branded as |" blah blah voted w/ the president (any president) 90% of the times". Well shoot practically everybody has the same score on both sides (close enough) , otherwise how do laws get passed in this country if one is 90% plus soley in one camp or the other? the math does not add up ...

Let's take a look at McCain and Obama common causes/ voting record.

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Yesterday, protothad posted an interesting diary detailing what he called "The Clinton score". Specifically, it counted the percentage of the time candidates agreed with the record of Senator Hillary Clinton. Since the race will be between two Senators, comparing voting records and positions is fairly simple.

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We have a unique opportunity this election.  The remaining candidates are both sitting members of the Senate.  That allows us to go beyond just examining their stated platforms to actually compare their voting records.  Furthermore, since Clinton is also a senator, her supporters have the opportunity to compare each candidate's voting record to Clinton's.

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