By the Numbers

Published October 26, 2008 4:00am ET



$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