Congressional Attendance : IN-07 Carson (D)
#7 in the 9 part series looking at the stats for Indiana's congressional delegation gives us the Democrat from Indianapolis, Julia Carson - the one who's supposedly "bad attendance record" drove me to do this. Stats below the fold:
Data for votes as of 6/1/2006
IN-07 Carson (D)
2005
Final stats for Congressperson Carson (D - IN) for the year 2005
Total Votes: 671
Votes Missed: 48
Votes Made: 623
Votes Present: 4
Votes With Winner: 337
Winning Percentage: 54.44
Votes With Loser: 282
Losing Percentage: 45.56
Attendance: 92.85
2006
Final stats for Congressperson Carson (D - IN) for the year 2006
Total Votes: 222
Votes Missed: 8
Votes Made: 214
Votes Present: 2
Votes With Winner: 112
Winning Percentage: 52.83
Votes With Loser: 100
Losing Percentage: 47.17
Attendance: 96.4
2005-2006 Totals
Winning Percent 54.0%
Losing Percent 46.0%
Attendance 93.7%
Quick & Dirty Analysis: Well obviously her "attendance problems" aren't all what they are cracked up to be. True, 2004 was a bad year for her but since then she's been running at 93.7%. And a winning percent of 54% doesn't seem too out of line even if you take the consensus roll call votes into consideration.