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Profiles In Campaigning

October 1, 2007

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10:38 pm

Daniel Larison

Not surprisingly, five of the six sitting Senators currently running for President decided that absence was the better part of valour in the defense appropriation vote: Obama, Biden, Dodd, Clinton and McCain all managed to miss it.  Feingold, Byrd and Coburn were the only three to vote against the measure.

P.S. Can anyone explain Tom Coburn’s ‘nay’ vote?

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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