Both being a senator and being a presidential candidate are time-consuming jobs. How well are these candidates doing both of those jobs? Are they ignoring their elected position to run for a bigger elected position, or are they doing both fairly well. It turns out that three of them are missing a lot of votes to campaign for their party's nomination (Rubio, Graham, and Cruz), while two are doing a very good job of being both a senator and a presidential candidate (Sanders and Paul). Here's the tally by NBC News:
Marco Rubio
- Announcement: April 13, 2015
- Missed Votes: 59
- Percentage: 42%
- Announcement: June 1, 2015
- Missed Votes: 39
- Percentage: 48%
- Announcement: April 7, 2015
- Missed Votes: 4
- Percentage: 3%
- Announcement: March 23, 2015
- Missed Votes: 57
- Percentage: 29%
- Announcement: March 26, 2015
- Missed Votes: 7
- Percentage: 4%
(The caricatures above of Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham are by DonkeyHotey.)