Senator, Arizona · 1987–2018
John McCain
Hawk, campaign-finance heretic, 2008 nominee. A Republican who broke with his party in public.
John McCain is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Senator, Arizona, 1987–2018. The placement note is: Hawk, campaign-finance heretic, 2008 nominee. A Republican who broke with his party in public.
The dot is economics +26 and authority +22. That is right of center on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Former members are placed from the public career, not from a 119th Congress Voteview score.
Said: Country first. Campaign money should be limited, and the war on terror should be fought without torture. Done: The torture amendment passed. Campaign finance was partly undone by the Court. He voted against his party’s repeal of the ACA. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Bill Frist (+28 / +22) and Thomas Brackett Reed (+26 / +18). Nearness is not a school of thought.
This page does not add votes that are not in the placement note. The bills themselves are in the Congressional Record for those years.