CQ: Obama's Winning Streak On Hill Unprecedented

[TheWraith]

A bit of statistical reality for the people who think that Obama isn't getting anything done, or that he should magically be winning more than he is.

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In his first year in office, President Obama did better even than legendary arm-twister Lyndon Johnson in winning congressional votes on issues where he took a position, a Congressional Quarterly study finds.

The new CQ study gives Obama a higher mark than any other president since it began scoring presidential success rates in Congress more than five decades ago. And that was in a year where Obama tackled how to deal with Afghanistan, Iraq, an expanding terrorist threat, the economic crisis and battles over health care.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122436116

[Vincardog]

1. Key words "on issues where he took a position" Didn't he take a position of renegotiation NAFTA? DAD...

What was his position on Mandates?
What was his position on lobbyists controlling our government?

[MoJoWorkin]

3. Sorry, but the same wording was used for the other Presidents as well, according to Rachel

Get over it.

[Vincardog]

5. I will get over it when I see the man LEAD. I do not count much success in winning battles that are

never even fought. If Obama keeps on waiting till the outcome is certain before "expressing a position" he is as useless as tits on a boar hog.

[jobycom]

8. That's the point, though. The others had a lower success rate because they took positions on issues

that weren't slam dunks.

[jobycom]

2. "on issues where he took a position"

When you form your position on consensus opinion, then you probably will have a strong success rate. I think a lot of people are upset first by some of the positions he took, and second by many he didn't bother with.

Even the article points out that he mostly took positions on battles he knew were already won. "But Sarah Binder, a congressional analyst at the Brookings Institution, says there's another key reason he scored so well. She says he only took an official position on issues that were really important to him — those that he knew he had a very good chance of winning. He picked his battles carefully."

Where are his bold battles that required sacrificing Congressional seats and political allies? Where has he stuck his neck out? The battles he's won would have been won by any Democrat in the White House. Where are the wins that took courage?

[TheWraith]

4. Right, because it's not like the Republicans have been fighting him or anything.

:eyes:

[jobycom]

7. You'd do it for Randolph Scott.

:shrug:

[frylock]

6. whoop-de-fuckin-doo

yay team

[Scurrilous]

9. K & R

:thumbsup: