Bill Nelson, health care and “the deciding vote”
We look at a TV ad claiming Nelson was "the deciding vote" for the health care law.
We look at a TV ad claiming Nelson was "the deciding vote" for the health care law.
We look at TV ads claiming various senators were "the deciding vote" for the health care law.
PolitiFact has often noted that economists say governors have a small effect their state's economy. For better or worse, the same thing was true when Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts.
Throughout the summer we'll be updating the promises we're tracking with the Obameter. Here's the latest on five of them.
Romney boasts about his jobs record; Obama blames Romney for outsourcing. We check the facts.
Mitt Romney pounced on a comment that President Barack Obama made at a news conference that "the private sector is doing fine." Here's the statement in context.
The Obama and Romney campaigns have been sparring over the former Massachusetts' governor's job creation record. We sift through the data.
With the economy at the center of the presidential campaign, we check the numbers to see what's up and what's down.
Coming today on PolitiFact is a scorecard of the U.S. economy under President Barack Obama.
Our fact-check on a Facebook claim that President Barack Obama isn't as big a spender as many people think drew lots of support from Obama backers and a barrage of criticism from opponents. We recap the debate.
A column in MarketWatch that busted stereotypes about the tax-and-spend Democratic stereotype was turned into a Facebook post that went viral. We checked the facts.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker touched off a kerfuffle when he criticized the Obama campaign for hammering Mitt Romney over his record at Bain Capital. Booker's video response was interpreted as a backtrack. But how much did he really backtrack?