McCain, Obama on the Environment

Politico:

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) voted in favor of the environment only 18 percent of the time this year, according to the annual environmental scorecard by the League of Conservation Voters. But he still trumped Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who got a zero for missing every environmental vote.

...The league’s scoring system counts an absence as a negative vote. And both senators have higher lifetime scores: 86 percent for Obama and 24 percent for McCain.

(Ed. note: The article is poorly written and the LCV scoring system a little mystifying but you'll get the gist of the argument.)