Republicans For Obama?

While it may not seem it given the high profile efforts to block the President's agenda, when you get to the votes of the matter, quite a few Republicans have lined up with the President on less publicized votes. Including our own Sen. Bob Corker who ranks in the top 10 of Senate Republicans in their voting with the President.

According to CQ Politics by way of DailyKos, Sen. Corker has supported the President's line 68% of the time, ranking him number nine among Republicans. Sens. Snowe and Collins were the most supportive, backing the President 92% of the time.

Sen. Alexander isn't far behind, with a record of supporting the President 65% of the time. Now, this isn't exactly an indication of liberalism on either of their parts. The vast majority of Republicans fall in the 50-70 range of agreeing with the President, and nearly all of those votes weren't very controversial.

But, all the same, given the President's large vote deficit in the 2008 election, its somewhat surprising to see that both Senators from Tennessee tend to steer clear of the crazy caucus within the GOP. Especially in Sen. Alexander's case given that he is in the bottom 10 of Republicans who stayed united with their caucus (81% party unity), even though he is Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference.