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In reply to the discussion: AOC giving Joe Manchin the death stare over "defund the police" [View all]Spazito
(51,028 posts)over his time as a Senator:
"Of course, progressives opposed to Manchin dont really seem to care that Manchin is a stronger candidate in West Virginia than a generic Democrat. They simply want someone who will oppose Trump more often. Manchin has voted with the president 67 percent of the time in the current Senate. Thats more than any other Democrat; the median Democratic senator, in fact, has supported Trumps position just 26 percent of the time.4 Over the course of his career, meanwhile, Manchin has broken with Democrats pretty regularly. Since he entered the Senate in 2010, during the 111th Congress, Manchin has voted with his party 77 percent of the time in the average Congress5 on votes in which at least 50 percent of Democrats voted one way and 50 percent of Republicans voted the other way. (For shorthand, Im calling these party-line votes.) The median senator6 over that stretch voted with her party 94 percent of the time on such votes."
Footnote 5 states: "This is through 2015, as 2016 data has not been released by Congressional Quarterly."
You are probably thinking about this current Senate rather than his voting record overall.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/liberals-would-be-foolish-to-target-joe-manchin/