Why do people like you and birthers lie so much ? 3 % of his votes were present.What math were you taught that 3 % is considered "most " ? http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/how_many_times_did_obama_vote_present.html Q: How many times did Obama vote 'present' as a state senator? I keep reading that Obama has "no legislative accomplishments" and at the GOP convention, Palin kept saying he voted "present" 123 times, or something like that. Can you please fact-check this? Here are the facts: According to reports by both The New York Times and the Associated Press, Obama voted "present" 129 times as a state senator. The AP reported that Obama said the votes represented a small portion â a little more than 3 percent â of the "roughly 4,000" votes he cast as a member of the state Senate. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/feb/13/obamas-present-tension/ Without the full set of records, we could not verify the 129 figure, though we did count more than 100 "present" votes in the data we had available. The records show "present" votes were a tiny proportion of the more than 4,000 that Obama cast during his tenure in the chamber