Point system on the Debates: Looking at the lies and misleading statements

Posted on Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Link Distortions and Misstatements At First Presidential Debate
Link Cheney & Edwards Mangle Facts
Link Distortions Galore at Second Presidential Debate

Taking a score from all the lies and misleading statements from the debates it looks as if Kerry/Edwards won by almost half the points. Simply I looked at who lied more as the losers. Taken from the articles above at Cheney's precious factcheck.com, err, I mean org, I tallied up the lies and misleading statements.

1st Debate
Bush - 7
Kerry - 5

VP Debate
Cheney - 9
Edwards - 3

2nd Debate
Bush - 7
Kerry - 6

Overall Lies and Misleading statements
Kerry/Edwards - 13
Bush/Cheney - 23