President Obama set a new record last year for getting Congress to vote his way, clinching 96.7 percent of the votes on which he had clearly staked a position.
That was a bit less than 4 percentage points higher than the previous record, set by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, according to an annual study by Congressional Quarterly.
That's really impressive, and a testimony to the fact that President Obama has achieved quite a bit in his first year -- a majority of it squarely in the progressive column, despite what you might be reading.
