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By request: keeping count

May 8, 2008

We've made a few improvements to PolitiFact. For the first time, we're providing a tally of our ratings for each candidate and group.

Polled position: gas taxes and supercars

May 6, 2008

The gas tax won't save you much and supercars will have to wait. Why can't there be an easy answer for sticker shock at the pump?

Even missionaries botch their facts

May 2, 2008

The latest scurrilous e-mail about Barack Obama has real-live authors, Christian missionaries in Africa, but they're no better with the truth than anonymous bloggers.

McCain steps in on Wright

April 30, 2008

McCain chastises the North Carolina GOP for political ads that use the Rev. Jeremiah Wright; then McCain weighs in other Wright statements.

Capital gains taxes demystified

April 29, 2008

McCain gets it half right on capital gains taxes while debate moderators pin down Clinton and Obama on where they stand.

A lesson in cherry-picking

April 28, 2008

Voting records make senators east targets for attack ads, and nobody knows it better than Sen. John McCain. The DNC is only doing what George W. Bush did back in 2000.

Wright not Clinton’s spiritual adviser

April 25, 2008

The Rev. Wright was one of more than 100 religious leaders invited to a prayer breakfast at the White House in 1998, but there's no indication he provided the Clintons any spiritual counseling.

Gas taxes, on holiday

April 24, 2008

The RNC is right that Obama once supported a gas tax "holiday," but a video glosses over some key details.

Focus on the facts

April 23, 2008

An e-mail by Focus on the Family uses some inaccurate information to paint a misleading portrait of Barack Obama.

In Pa., 11th-hour attacks on health care

April 21, 2008

As the Pennsylvania primary looms, health care takes center stage in campaign ads

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