Thursday, October 07, 2004

Via WTF is it Now? (scroll up for the post), a Dick Cheney lie that FactCheck.org missed.
In Tuesday night's debate, Cheney said Edwards has "one of the worst attendance records in the United States Senate."

In truth, Edwards has an 84.8% voting record in the Senate. In each of his first four years, he had a perfect or near perfect record:

1999: Cast 371 out of 274 votes for a 99.2% voting record
2000: Cast 298 out of 298 votes for a 100% voting record
2001: Cast 377 out of 380 votes for a 99.2% voting record
2002: Cast 253 out of 253 votes for a 100% voting record
2003: Cast 281 out of 459 votes for a 61.2% voting record
2004: Cast 84 out of 198 votes for a 42.4% voting record

Overall, Edwards has cast 1664 out of 1962 votes for a 84.8% voting record, Dick.