Uncompromising Liberal?

This election season you are sure to hear from "conservatives" they would never vote for Obama because he is the "most liberal Senator." Hilzoy looks at Obama's legislative experience in the Senate and discovers some fascinating trends.

His legislation is often proposed with Republican co-sponsorship, which
brings me to another point: he is bipartisan in a good way...Obama tries to find
people, both Democrats and Republicans, who actually care about a particular
issue enough to try to get the policy right, and then he works with them. This
does not involve compromising on principle. It does, however, involve preferring
getting legislation passed to having a spectacular battle. (This is especially
true when one is in the minority party, especially in this Senate: the chances
that Obama's bills will actually become law increase dramatically when he has
Republican co-sponsors.