Which Candidate has the most defensible Senate record?

So, we nominate another Senator as our Candidate for President, Then what?

We all know Senate records are almost worse than Criminal Records, with pages of ammunition to be taken out of context by the RW spin machine and fired ad-nauseum against any candidate who has one.

So, which candidate has the BEST Senate record, and how do they use it to their advantage?

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Then this poll is irrelevant. Feel free to ignore it.

would be no poll about senators' records being blamed for election losses, would there?

I stand corrected in my irrelevant poll and will sit down over here, shall I?

No, I think not.

Suffice to say, even if you are correct in your assessment, at the very least the manipulation of Kerry's Senate record made it much easier to steal the o4 election.

When you control every level of the election process where the votes are allowed, cast and counted.

It's Terry McAuliffe's record at the DNC that all of us should focus on - as he is the one who chose to sit on his hands for four years and let the RNC gain all that control, uncountered by the DNC even after the hearings on 2000's fraud.

since the nominee's going to be from the House!

:evilgrin:

:rofl:

HRC has kept her voting record pretty clean. I cannot believe
that knowing she might well run for President, she kept her
rcord with that in mind. Dure they will attack her as "librul"
but this is the main attack on any Democrat.

and cannot characterize it as being extreme Left or Right.

He's definately Left/Center.

Could have said "Senators and Representatives". But nooooooooo.

:toast:

The Big 3 all have short Senate careers but each have votes in there that can be used against them.

Dodd & Biden have been around so long that I am sure there are votes that can be misconstrued.

You got to be kidding me. But then he could swim up shit creek and the groupies would say he didn't smell. GO TO THE DAMN CONGRESSIONAL RECORD AND SEE WHAT "MR SITTIN' ON THE FENCE HAS VOTED FOR"

Not damn much he has missed most of the votes.

is that the actual number for the votes he's missed?

weak position on abortion, and his "free" trade record is not an issue is because neither the media nor his opponents considers his candidacy anything that needs to be responded to.

Dodd is pretty good, but siding with Bush on ending the downpayment assistance program as part of his role in the banking committee has cost him dearly in my estimation.

Edwards's record in the Senate would be defensible if he were running as a moderate, but he's running as more of a progressive since his stint as director of the poverty center. Just like Al Gore, Edwards has evolved as a leader (and as a person) and has moved left since he last held office so he has grown past his old voting record (both Gore and Edwards are much better advocates for change now than what their past voting records reflect).

The difference is, Biden supporters don't pretend he's anything he's not.

IMO, the WORST of the lot is Edwards and his supporters who pretend he's anything but the centrist his record as a Senator and candidate in 04 indicates.

I'd say clearly he has the best record of all of them.
I like Obama, but he has missed a lot of votes (or at least there is the perception that he's missed a lot), and his detractors WILL use it against him...in the primary as well as the GE.
Biden's voting record is most consistent with how he portrays himself, and the constituency he represents.
Every candidate that has served in the house or senate is going to have something in their voting record that to some will be considered a "black mark". The trick is weighing what you consider to be negatives against what that candidate has to offer as POTUS. I've weighed all the candidates, and for Biden comes out on top.
On Edit: Just as a side note, you seem to insinuate that Biden supporters haven't considered him carefully or completely and I must tell you that you couldn't be further off the mark. No one jumps on the "Biden bandwagon" because it's fashionable or because he's the "cool" candidate. Everyone of us has looked at each candidate in agonizing detail and come to realize that Biden is the best qualified and capable candidate for POTUS. You dislike him because he has issues in voting record (which have been explained ad nauseum here on DU). We support him in spite of it, because we stand to gain so much from his experience, his ability, and his intellect.
I would caution you to look past the simple YEAS and NAYS in any candidate's vote tally, and consider the WHY's. I will continue to support Senator Biden in the primaries, and wish you and your candidate good luck.

conveniently utilizing his 501C-4 donation money for funding and forging his Iowa presence over the last 4 yrs.

However, if any of that money is spent paying for bashing his rivals in campaign ads...that is a definite no,no!

the candidates. I laughed at him in 1988. and supported Edwards until I met him. and just this weekend Edwards plagiarized Biden. with "A Sacred Trust"...

Obama plagerized him at the JJ dinner too.

unreal!

Clearly that would cause more trouble than a few years for Obama or even Edwards. I can't understand the motivation of those votes.

BIDEN: (four most recent covering the past 3 yeaers)
Voted NO on free trade agreement with Oman. (Jun 2006)
Voted NO on implementing CAFTA for Central America free-trade. (Jul 2005)
Voted NO on establishing free trade between US & Singapore. (Jul 2003)
Voted NO on establishing free trade between the US and Chile. (Jul 2003)

OBAMA:
Voted YES on free trade agreement with Oman. (Jun 2006)
Voted NO on implementing CAFTA for Central America free-trade. (Jul 2005)

On the two issues Biden and Obama have in common, Obama voted PRO free trade one time out of two (50%), Biden voted PRO free trade ZERO.

So I don't understand your charge against Biden's free trade voting record.

you think Biden, Dodd and Edwards do not have the best Senate records,: however you did not back up
why you think Obama in his short tenure does have the best record. An oversite perhaps?

You don't get off that easy... :evilgrin:

:popcorn:

issues which could prove to be an advantage for him in the GE.


He explains his view in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiVKtwS-UvM

:7

He's admitted having shown about the crappiest judgement a junior Senator could show... As if by admitting he was wrong most of the time then, he is proving he is wiser and more capable of making Presidential decisions now... yeah, right. :eyes:

...it would have become netroots lore.

Who single-handedly filibustered the draft?

I know... :spank:

It's Gravel relaying the story of that historic event. It's VERY entertaining!

I've posted the video here several times but it wasn't popular.

I LOVE Gravel!

keep the rethugs busy reading it through Nov 08...

I've been by his voting history. Much more liberal than I would have initially thought!