Sorting fact from fiction on Election Day
By Bill Wichert
June 5, 2012
PolitiFact New Jersey revisits claims made in races for two House seats and a U.S. Senate seat
PolitiFact New Jersey revisits claims made in races for two House seats and a U.S. Senate seat
Claims by Republicans Frelinghuysen, Casagrande checked.
The Telegraph of Nashua has just launched PolitiFact New Hampshire, our 11th state site.
We’ve rated three recent ridiculous claims as Pants on Fire. One was made by a political group, the others by David Dewhurst and Craig James.
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.
The final recall debate between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Tom Barrett covered some familiar ground. Here's a round up of some of the repeat claims and how we rated them the first time they came around.
Want to know if governors are keeping their campaign promises? Check out our Walk-O-Meter, Bob-O-Meter and others that rate whether the promises are kept or broken.
Our look at a Texas Democrat’s claim about Republicans and Barack Obama led a reader to point out a poll we’d overlooked.
The Wisconsin recall election is making the Truth-O-Meter overheat. PolitiFact Wisconsin finds 34 of 54 claims to be Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire.
The top two vote-getters in the Republican U.S. Senate primary — David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz — are headed to a July 31 runoff. And theirs is not the only unsettled contest. That means about 60 additional days for the Truth-O-Meter to weigh candidate claims.
Readers weigh in on our recent rulings, including what Allen West said about communists in Congress.