I'm going to be mixing it up with some of my liberal friends and just trying to gather some facts. Speaking facts, here's how yahoo news stated it ( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin_88 )
Palin was referring to Obama's days in the Illinois Senate, when he voted "present" dozens of times among the thousands of votes he cast in his eight years there. The move is common among Illinois lawmakers, but has become a favorite Republican complaint about
I know... why did I even read it.
I don’t know about the percentage. This is interesing though:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/o000167/
has alot of information regarding his votes...
I hadn’t realized how many votes he actually “missed” over and above the ‘present’ votes.