But it's just plain silly to judge and compare Presidential candidates by how "patriotic" they are!
It's a silly, meaningless measure in this context, and should never have been included in such a survey.
Are McCain and Obama both patriotic? Of course they are, intensely patriotic, otherwise they wouldn't be devoting all their time and energy, and sacrificing so much else from a "normal" human life, in their attempts to become President of the USA.
Unless one is part of the lunatic fringe, and believes that one candidate or the other is secreting scheming to deliver an unsuspecting America to her mortal enemies, it's completely meaningless to attempt to gauge the degree of "patriotism" inspiring each candidate and to claim that one exceeds the other in that capacity. It makes no sense.