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It’s election time. Have you read your Truth-O-Meter?

July 19, 2010

Are you voting in Tuesday's primary election?

The Truth-O-Meter has caught Georgia's gubernatorial candidates uttering Truths, Half Truths and worse this political season.

Here's a round-up of what they said and how we ruled.

Trading barbs on job creation and the stimulus

July 15, 2010

We check competing visions of the job picture by Vice President Joe Biden and House Minority Leader John Boehner.

More fact-checks from this week’s ‘This Week’

July 14, 2010

We've checked claims by David Axelrod, Rep. Luis Gutierrez and George Will.

BP’s ‘slush fund’? Oops! They didn’t mean that!

July 13, 2010

Another Republican backs away from the notion that the compensation fund for the oil spill disaster is a "slush fund."

Does PolitiFact seek ‘the comfort of the middle ground’?

July 12, 2010

We respond to Arianna Huffington.

Message Machine: Checking the ads in Illinois

July 10, 2010

In the newest installment of our Message Machine feature with NPR, we examine ads in the U.S. Senate race in Illinois.

Dewhurst among un-thrilled with PolitiFact, NPR reports

July 9, 2010

PolitiFact Texas, launched six months ago, has fans and objectors--the latter including
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst who told NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik: "This is regrettably a new low for the Austin American-Statesman and for this particular group. It shouldn't be in the newspaper. It should be on the editorial page. I mean, for heaven's sakes."

Folkenflik's report aired this week, touching off reaction across the land.

Accusations fly in campaign for Obama’s old senate seat

July 8, 2010

The race between Illinois state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, a Democrat, and U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., for a U.S. Senate seat has become downright nasty. We weigh in with a few fact checks from the competing attack ads.

On ‘This Week,’ checking claims about Arizona and immigration

July 6, 2010

We check claims on immigration from John McCain and Al Hunt.

John McCain: Senator, Navy pilot, war hero … lobbyist?

July 6, 2010

With charges flying in the U.S. Senate race in Arizona, we explore J.D. Hayworth's claim that McCain was a lobbyist.

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