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The performance of Georgia's own Herman Cain during last night’s Republican presidential debate is sending political opinionators buzzing.

After the debate, Fox News aired discussion between veteran political consultant and pollster Frank Luntz and a focus group.

Members said that before last night, they didn’t know much about Cain. Afterwards, most of them loved him.

Luntz was bowled over.

"Something very special happened this evening," he concluded. 

Rick Scott's first legislative session is ending without much movement on some of his biggest campaign promises. No big corporate income tax rate cut. No Arizona-style immigration law. A compromise on employee pension contributions. But are there silver linings for Florida's new governor?

The South Carolina debate was missing several of the most prominent candidates, but there were still plenty of facts to check.

We're introducing Beyond the Truth-O-Meter, a new feature that links to work by FactCheck.org, the Washington Post and other fact-checkers.

The horse got his name from his father's passion, not the Truth-O-Meter rating. But he's still our pick for Saturday's race.

But Axelrod was wrong when he said McDonnell balanced Virginia's budget by borrowing $3 billion against future federal transportation receipts. And McDonnell erred when he said "30 years after World War II, we cut the deficit every year."

Mitt Romney, a possible Republican presidential candidate, drew derision when he wrote in an op-ed that we're currently in "peacetime." But despite military action in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, the distinctions betwen wartime and peacetime are no longer what they once were.

Our look into a Texas legislator’s assertion about President Barack Obama’s birthplace proved our readers’ favorite article last week. We also marked a Rick Perry promise "kept" and probed Texans gamboling to gamble.

To the Flashback...

During the 2008 campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama pledged several times that he would act to capture or kill terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Today, that's a Promise Kept on our Obameter.

We post new Obameter items involving the death of Osama bin Laden. The promise to kill him gets a Kept; the vow to "crush al-Qaida" is rated In the Works.

With the announcement that Osama Bin Laden is dead, many PolitiFact readers have pointed out President Obama's vow to kill him from October 2008. Is it the president's most significant Promise Kept?

With the announcement that Osama Bin Laden is dead, PolitiFact readers pointed out President Barack Obama's October 2008 vow to kill him. Is this the president's most significant Promise Kept?