ONE candidate causes MASSIVE disruption

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21. Do you really consider Sanders, who votes with Democrats 95% to 99 % of the time

from 2001 to 2010 to be inside the Dem tent pissing in it?

Bernie Sanders rode a message of “political revolution” to a blowout victory in New Hampshire. But while he talks a radical game, a deeper look at his quarter-century record in Congress reveals more of a conventional Democratic lawmaker.

While he is prone to grand speeches — monopolizing the Senate floor for nine hours in 2010 to deliver an apoplectic diatribe against extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, for instance — he votes regularly for standard Democratic fare and has fallen in line with the party on everything from a major tax-and-budget deal to health care reform and bank regulation.

He campaigns as an independent who describes himself as a Democratic socialist, but Sanders voted with Democrats 95 percent to 99 percent of the time from 2001 to 2010, according to CQ Vote Studies. The member with whom he most often votes is Sen. Maria Cantwell, a liberal former business executive from Washington state, according to the congressional tracking website OpenCongress.

Sanders goes his own way most often on issues involving Wall Street and trade — for instance, he was the only non-Republican in the Senate to vote last summer to let the Export-Import Bank expire.

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/bernie-sanders-democratic-votes-219140