Which Senators Are the Biggest Obama Supporters?

CQ Politics has a great tool that analyzes the voting patterns of members of Congress. Your Gaggler has just spent a few minutes perusing the records of senators--specifically the degree to which they support the president--and found some interesting results. CQ has tallied the votes from the 214 roll-call votes of this Congress, up through June 25. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the two Republican senators offering greatest support for the president's agenda are Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, both from Maine. Each supported the president in 92 percent of their votes. Ohio's George Voinovich came in third with 83 percent support, and fourth was New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg with 82 percent support. Yep, that's the same Judd Gregg who was offered the post of commerce secretary but the unexpectedly withdrew his name citing "irresolvable conflicts" with the Obama administration. Maybe they weren't so irresolvable after all.

On the other end of the spectrum, Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn has cast his vote in line with the president's wishes just 32 percent of the time. Coburn is a staunch conservative who decries increases in government spending and has criticized Obama on a range of topics, including his cabinet nominees and his economic recovery plans. But he also counts himself as a friend of the president. He's even met personally with the Obama in the Oval Office. "

Across the aisle, Democrats appear quite disciplined (well, for Democrats anyway) with three quarters of them voting with the president 95 percent of the time or more. Sens. Carl Levin (Michigan), Patrick Leahy (Vermont), John Rockerfeller (West Virginia), Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse (both Rhode Island) all have a perfect record of support. (Ted Kennedy has thrown 100 percent of his votes behind the president, but he's only been present for 4 percent of the votes counted this year.) Russ Feingold from Wisconsin is the Democrat least supportive of the president, voting 86 percent of the time with hs agenda. For all his talk of being an independent centrist, Evan Bayh of Indiana has still voted with Obama 95 percent of the time. And Joe Lieberman, who prominently campaigned against Obama last year and is technically an independent, still cast 97 percent of his votes in favor of the president.