1-in-4 Chance Sarah Palin Could Be President.

McCain's Mortality Questioned in Medical Journal

Source: Wired.com

There's a one-in-four chance that Sen. John McCain will die in the next four years, according to a contested interpretation of risks posed by the presidential candidate's history of skin cancer.

"His mortality risk translates to 22 percent over a first term," said John Alam, a biotechnology consultant and former cancer researcher who crunched the numbers on McCain's cancer history.

That figure is roughly twice the death risk of a white male of McCain's age, but without McCain's past melanoma. Some researchers, however, think Alam's model fails to account for McCain's continued health.