Using the internet to get political information

Politifact is a non-partisan website that takes statements that polititians make and checks their veracity. They will tell you if something said was TRUE, MOSTLY TRUE, HALF-TRUE, BARELY TRUE, FALSE, or a really bad lie (PANTS ON FIRE). The best part is that they spell out exactly why the statements were labeled as such.

They also happen to tally up the statements in an easy to read diagram, by candidate. I used those tallys to make the following (unscientific, oversimplistic) calculations:

(Using data from politifact)

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Ratio of truth to lies: TRUE/FALSE
True and mostly true statements I count as TRUE
Half true, barely true, false, & pants on fire statements I count as FALSE

OBAMA = 1.216
McCAIN = .531

On average, Obama told 1 lie for every 1.2 truths.
On average, McCain told 2.2 lies for every 1.2 truths.
McCain lies more than twice as often as Obama for the same number of truths.

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Lie severety = sum of points
true = 2 points
mostly true = 1 point
half truth = -1 point
barely true = -2 points
false = -3 points
pants on fire = -4 points

OBAMA = +2 points
McCAIN = -70 points
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Of course, a conservative looking at these numbers on the website will automatically assume that politifact is part of the liberal media.