claim: "obama voted to support president bush between 40 and 50 percent of the time over the past two years."
author: john mccain
evidence_1: jan 12, 2016 ... and just over a quarter (27%) of republicans offered a positive assessment of  clinton between 1993 and 2000. but the two most recent presidents – george w.  bush and obama – have not received even this minimal level of support.  polarization and presidential approval: supporters stay loyal, opposition ...
evidence_2: feb 5, 2016 ... the majority of whites have voted republican in every election over the past 50  years, but a meaningful minority of whites support the democratic nominee ...  jimmy carter received the largest percentage of white votes for a democrat with  48 percent in 1976; george h.w. bush received the lowest at 41 ...
evidence_3: jun 16, 2008 ... on votes where bush indicated his position, cq found obama supported the  republican president 40 percent of the time in 2007. that 40 ... of the time.  mccain had the senate's highest presidential support score last year, 95 percent,  but he missed more than half of the votes because he was campaigning.
evidence_4: nov 15, 2016 ... according to gallup's most recent measure, obama's approval is at 57 percent,  with only 40 percent disapproving. the most recent ... final year in office. even  george h.w. bush, who was defeated in november of 1992, saw his approval  ratings rise to over 50 percent in the final months of his presidency.
evidence_5: sep 4, 2014 ... an analysis of those elections shows a startlingly uniform pattern over time: the  incumbent party (i.e., the party that won the last election) consistently lost ... but  those parties had all claimed between 55 to 65 percent of the two-party vote in  the previous election, while obama in 2012 won a shade under 52 ...