CQ Vote Study Shows Democrats Are Organized Majority So Far«

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CQ Vote Study Shows Democrats Are Organized Majority So Far« Thread Started on Apr 3, 2007, 11:49am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------CQ Vote Study Shows Democrats Are Organized Majority So FarBy Greg Giroux | 7:13 PM; Apr. 02, 2007 read at source> http://www.cqpolitics.com/2007/04/cq_vo ... .htmlThere are those who will scoff that putting “Democrats” and “party discipline” in the same sentence is an oxymoron. And over the first three months of the Democratic-controlled 110th Congress, much of the media has tended to focus on issues on which Democratic leaders have had to labor to forge a consensus — especially on how and when to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.Yet an early Congressional Quarterly study of House members’ voting records suggests that party unity is far more the rule than the exception for the new Democratic majority in the House.According to an unofficial analysis of House votes performed by CQPolitics.com senior reporter Greg Giroux, the average “party unity” score of the 233 House Democrats is 98 percent so far.