Fact-checking the CNN debate in South Carolina
The final four debate in South Carolina. We put them to the Truth-O-Meter
The final four debate in South Carolina. We put them to the Truth-O-Meter
Our readers weigh in with their opinions on our latest fact-checking reports.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry kept the Truth-O-Meter whirring during his run for president.
Getting tired of all the negative attacks? When candidates talk about themselves, their rhetoric takes on a decidedly positive tone.
During the recent South Carolina debate, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney said that "our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947." But military experts told us that comparing ship and aircraft numbers to those from a century ago don't say very much about how effective a fighting force we have today.
Several readers asked how it is possible that small businesses consistently create 70 percent of the nation's private sector jobs but employ only half of the workers. Here's our answer.
Ohio and several other states all were in the bidding to try to coax Sears to move its headquarters.
But when PolitiFact Ohio tried to nail down a claim that the Buckeye State was runner up to Illinois, we found the answers elusive.
PolitiFact New Jersey reviews a few claims Gov. Chris Christie made during his State of the State address that we've previously tested on the Truth-O-Meter.
We fact-check a television ad that purports to tell you four facts you don't know about Republican candidate for president Rick Santorum.
America has bases in 130 countries? A million new jobs were created in Texas? Presidential candidates Ron Paul and Rick Perry of Texas covered a lot of ground in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day debate. Click here for our research on some of their claims.
Did Gov. Chris Christie really balance "two budgets without raising taxes," create "60,000 new private-sector jobs" and make "government smaller?"
Whether appropriately bold or outrageous, President Barack Obama stirred up the dust when he used a recess appointment to make former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray the nation’s consumer financial cop.
We were intrigued by an argument put forth by Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio: that Obama might have limited Cordray’s ability to do his full job because of the way he put the Ohioan in the director’s chair.
But sorting the issue out on the Truth-O-Meter proved to be a challenge.