Truth-O-Meter vets candidates’ claims on taxes
PolitiFact New Jersey checks statements from candidates for Congress.
PolitiFact New Jersey checks statements from candidates for Congress.
Summer is coming, the general election is cranking up and that means the price of gas will be talked about. A lot. Find out why explaining it -- and figuring out who to blame for it -- isn't so simple.
The four Republican candidates squared off for the first time in Roanoke. We put some of their claims to the Truth-O-Meter.
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U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher, a farmer in rural Crockett County, continues to sound warnings about the possibility of the Environmental Protection Agency focusing on regulation of "farm dust."
He did so most recently at a forum in Dyersburg, so we decided to look into Fincher's specific claims and determine if the EPA really was concerned about dust kicked up at rural farms.
Summer is coming, the general election is cranking up and that means the price of gas will be talked about. A lot. Find out why explaining it -- and figuring out who to blame for it -- isn't so simple.
We talk with social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt about politics and fact-checking.
Ron Paul said at Texas stops that 40,000 new laws landed on the books at the start of 2012.
Not so.
Ohio congressional candidate Samuel Wurzelbacher, who gained fame as "Joe the Plumber" during the 2008 presidential election, says President Obama's parents were communists. PolitiFact Ohio put that claim to the Truth-O-Meter.
PolitiFact New Jersey's arrival in the Garden State earns a press association honor.
Mitt Romney's campaign has been attacking President Barack Obama for how the economy has treated key demographic groups. Each time the Romney campaign has used the same tactic: Hurling a blizzard of negative statistics in neatly organized graphics. How accurate are they?
"Well, you know you can't believe everything you read in the papers," McDonnell said on MSNBC when asked about a report in The Washington Post that he planned to run TV ads in Virginia lauding his economic record.
The Truth-O-Meter takes a look back at some recent fact-checks concerning marijuana. Our partners at PolitiFact Georgia rounded up a few of the more interesting PolitiFact items.