Issue by issue, if I were a Congressman, I would receive the highest rating from liberal think-tank Americans For Democratic Action.
I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
The American public will give you an awful lot of slack on how you voted on one issue or another if they feel like you have a reason.
Even people who vote on the issues are moved by temperament, moved by style, moved by an assessment of “what kind of person if this?”
The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
No election is a single issue election.
There's always that tension between policy and personality in politics, and as voters, we have that, too: we all vote on issues, but we also vote on whether we like the people who are put forward.
If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.
Of course we are looking to win support across every section of society. We win support by speaking to voters on the issues they most care about.
