Do we have a bias?

This is a fair question. We do present more untrue statements made by the McCain campaign than the Obama campaign. We recognize that this could suggest a liberal bias.

However, we prefer to consider ourselves as being biased towards the facts.

In their analysis of the first 2008 presidential debate, the nonpartisan, nonprofit, group FactCheck.org called out “factual misstatements” made by the candidates. John McCain was called out nearly three times as often as Barack Obama. What's more, political truth website PolitiFact, a joint effort of the independent newsrooms at the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly, regularly rates the truthfulness of statements by both candidates. As of October 7, 2008, they had complied the following numbers:

 

 

Counting all True or Mostly True statements as being truthful, and all Barely True, False, and Pants on Fire comments as being untruthful, Politifact puts Obama at 52% truthful, 27% untruthful. McCain, by comparison, is running at 39% truthful, 45% untruthful.

So yes, we present more untrue statements made by the McCain campaign than the Obama campaign. But in this context, presenting equal numbers of untrue statements to avoid the appearance of bias would, in itself, be biased.