By the Numbers

$250,727.70

Amount of additional taxes Barack Obama would have had to pay since 2001 had his tax plans been in place, according to Americans for Tax Reform

6%

John McCain’s risk of death from melanoma, per year, according to an article in the British medical journal The Lancet

20%

Approximate odds that, as a former smoker, McCain could die within the next five years, according to John Banzhaf, a professor of public interest law at George Washington

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