Who lies the most among presidential candidates?

A while back the New York Times ran an article from PolitiFact's Angie Drobnic Holan on the fact-checked record of presidential candidates, plus a few other politicians.   PolitiFact had compiled statistics of the statements they had checked since 2007 and rated according to True, Mostly True, Half True/Half False, Mostly False, False, and Pants on Fire -- the latter category reserved for a particularly egregious or pernicious lie.

For this article Holan provided a summary score and ranking, as follows.   The numbers are the percent of each person's controversial answers that PolitiFact rated Mostly False or worse . . . i.e. a measure of that person's "dishonesty" -- or perhaps ignorance, in some cases.  It does not include last week's debates.  To be clear, and fair, PolitiFact does not check every statement a candidate makes -- just ones that are questioned.   Nevertheless, the ranking is very telling.

84%   Ben Carson
76%   Donald Trump
66%   Ted Cruz
59%   Dick Cheney
55%   Rick Santorum
50%   Carly Fiorino
40%   Marco Rubio
34%   Lindsey Graham
32%   Chris Christie
32%   Rand Paul
32%   Joe Biden
32%   Jeb Bush
28%   Bernie Sanders
28%   Hillary Clinton
26%   Barack Obama
25%   Martin O'Malley
24%   Bill Clinton

I took it a step further and calculated the average scores according to political party affiliation.   Republicans 50.9, Democrats 27.1.

Ralph