Julián Castro echoes Clinton
Castro tracks Clinton about job gains on Obama's watch.
Castro tracks Clinton about job gains on Obama's watch.
We choose our most significant fact-checks from the Republican and Democratic conventions.
Several readers looked askance at our fact-check on how many days Texas schools spend in mandated testing.
University of Memphis fans may remember when former basketball coach John Calipari needled rival Tennessee over which campus was the safest.
With students back on campuses across the state, we decided to examine the basis of the U of M’s many claims about its campus being the "safest" large metropolitan campus in the state.
We fact-check the speeches by President Obama (and his warm-up acts). We’ll be fact-checking speeches throughout the night and will update this story as we do.
President Barack Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte Thursday to make his case for re-election.
PolitiFact, PolitiFact Georgia and the AJC Truth-O-Meter tested some claims by the President and others on the convention’s final day.
We will complete a full fact-check of claims made by Obama in Saturday’s paper, and a roundup of claims made throughout the convention on Sunday.
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The Democrats wrapped up their convention Thursday night in Charlotte with President Barack Obama making his case for four more years on the job.
Prior to the president’s culminating speech, PolitiFact, PolitiFact Georgia and the AJC Truth-O-Meter tested some claims made by former President Bill Clinton and political leaders during convention appearances.
We will complete a full fact-check of claims made by Obama in Saturday’s paper, and a roundup of claims made throughout the convention on Sunday.
Want to comment on our rulings? Go to our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/politifact.georgia) or find us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/politifactga).
And check our Facebook page throughout the day. We update it with new convention fact-checks morning, noon and night.
By the time Barack Obama completed his speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, PolitiFact researchers had completed 16 fact checks of Democratic speakers.
We fact-check the speeches by President Obama (and his warm-up acts).
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Julián Castro's keynote included what turned out to be a laugh line -- his claim that Mitt Romney advised college students to start a business by borrowing from their parents, if need be. Did Castro recap correctly?