• aidan@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    I actually did pretty well in my political related classes, I didn’t take civics but various other US history classes, human geography, etc.

    How can you look at the GOP in congress voting lockstep with the party line and claim that you just vote for the individual?

    Okay I just checked for the past 15 votes(as of July 14th at 15:34 CEST) here is my source

    I tallied every vote dissenting from the majority for each party and I actually threw in a 16th because one was a repeat vote just with more members(even though it had a different result):

    TOTAL
    rep dissents 273
    dem dissents 114
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 18
    rep 0
    dem 9
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 19
    rep 1
    dem 1
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 20(vote 1)
    rep 4
    dem 0
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 20(vote 2)
    rep 4
    dem 0
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 21
    rep 3
    dem 2
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 22
    rep 0
    dem 2
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 24
    rep 3
    dem 17
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 27
    rep 41
    dem 0
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 28
    rep 98
    dem 49
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 29
    rep 1
    dem 0
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 30
    rep 74
    dem 5
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 31
    rep 8
    dem 2
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 32
    rep 9
    dem 0
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 33
    rep 25
    dem 0
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 34
    rep 0
    dem 27
    
    HR 2670 amendment: 38
    rep 2
    dem 0
    
    

    So, I wouldn’t say dissenting from majority votes are particularly one sided.