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Christie, Doherty claims take hit in weekend rulings from the Truth-O-Meter

March 6, 2012

PolitiFact New Jersey finds claims on state spending, education funding are inaccurate.

Fact-checking pre-Super Tuesday campaign appearances

March 5, 2012

GOP presidential candidates stormed Georgia and the airwaves Sunday, buffeting voters with one more powerful gust of rhetoric during the final weekend before Super Tuesday

Although the appearances were new, the talking points were largely the same. We’ve checked a few of them before.

Here’s a look at statements from the three leading candidates: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum. 

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Super Tuesday guide: Finding truth in the attacks

March 5, 2012

As 10 states prepare to vote on Super Tuesday, here’s PolitiFact’s guide to the multimillion-dollar ad blitz. With the field down to four Republican contenders, campaigns and super PACs are attacking their opponents with hot-button allegations about supporting Planned Parenthood, Obamacare and even Nancy Pelosi.

Super Tuesday guide: Finding truth in the attacks

March 4, 2012

As 10 states prepare to vote on Super Tuesday, here’s PolitiFact’s guide to the multimillion-dollar ad blitz. With the field down to four Republican contenders, campaigns and super PACs are attacking their opponents with hot-button allegations about supporting Planned Parenthood, Obamacare and even Nancy Pelosi.

Super Tuesday guide: Finding truth in the attacks

March 2, 2012

As 10 states prepare to vote on Super Tuesday, here’s PolitiFact’s guide to the multimillion-dollar ad blitz. With the field down to four Republican contenders, campaigns and super PACs are attacking their opponents with hot-button allegations about supporting Planned Parenthood, Obamacare and even Nancy Pelosi.

What we’re watching: Ads in the runup to Super Tuesday

March 1, 2012

Whether on television or on the Internet, Republican presidential candidates are attacking each other in campaign ads. Some of the attacks are even true.

Primary preview: Checking Santorum’s college claim

February 29, 2012

Super Tuesday, the multi-state primary day, is less than a week away. Ohio is one of the key states, so we're spotlighting statements from the GOP candidates.

Fact-checking the new pro-Mitt Romney ad

February 29, 2012

The GOP presidential primary campaign may still be in mid-season, but at least one campaign TV ad is already in reruns.

Restore our Future, a pro-Mitt Romney super PAC, is slated to air a commercial in Georgia beginning Thursday that, save for a few visuals, is identical to one that ran during the former Massachusetts governor’s failed 2008 presidential campaign.  

It’s also similar to a viral Internet story that PolitiFact National checked Jan. 30.

Both television ads feature former business partner Robert Gay crediting Romney with helping reunite Gay with his daughter after she went missing.

"Mitt’s done a lot of things that people say are nearly impossible," Gay says in both ads. "But for me, the most important thing he’s ever done is to help save my daughter."

Did Mitt "help save" Gay’s daughter?

‘Breakfast with the devil’ story leaves no crumbs

February 29, 2012

Crockett-Stark said a constituent, who is 82, awoke at 2 a.m. to the sound of someone breaking of a window at the funeral home where she lived. The woman, a sharpshooter, pulled a pistol and confronted the intruder as he was coming in the window. 

"So she grabs him up. She puts the pistol under his chin. She said ‘do you want to eat breakfast with the devil?’" Crockett-Stark said.

About that chain email you got … we check those, too

February 29, 2012

We checked — and found False — a circulating email claim that a 2008 Dallas proof-of-insurance ordinance had resulted in area tow lots being filled mostly with the cars of illegal residents.

Hey, Super Tuesday states! Send us your suggestions!

February 28, 2012

If you live in a Super Tuesday state, send us examples of campaign ads, mailings or robocalls that you think we should fact-check.

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