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Rank & % of time voted with party
2007-2008
Obama - 12th - 96.0%
McCain - 65th - 88.0%

2005-2006
Obama - 5th - 94.8%
McCain- 94th - 79.4%

2003-2004
Obama - NOT IN CONGRESS
McCain - 93rd - 84.5%

2001-2002
Obama - NOT IN CONGRESS
McCain - 93rd - 76.2%

Obama's records of voting along party lines 96% and 95% of the time are way too high, although McCain's 88% isn't all that great either.

We need more free thinkers in office, people who vote based on their own personal convictions, not just repeating their respective party's positions like a ventriloquist dummy. McCain is closer to being an independent thinker than Obama, but I don't think either of them will deviate too far from the usual party politics if he is elected to the Presidency.