wikipedia says that the US male life expectancy is 75.15 years and that only 6 presidents out of 43 have been wounded or worse from an assassination attempt. so from a number point of view its far greater that mccain dies than obama gets clipped. I guess its in your wording. you say there is a "good chance" which I take as more than 50% less than 100% hes assassinated yet it cant register that statistically speaking McCain doesnt have much longer. I am not saying he is going to die. But the thread was about chances of McCain dying not politics for left to right.