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Ham & cheese, hold the bureaucracy

Hillary Clinton is right about the tangled rules of federal food inspections. If you think the sandwich rules are silly, check out the guidelines for pepperoni pizza.
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Get the widget

Put a little PolitiFact on your Web site. We now have a free widget that will put our latest Truth-O-Meter rulings on your site. You can find it here.

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Romney’s Hillary health care problem

The former Massachusetts governor bashes so-called HillaryCare while others accuse him of using it.
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Ridiculous, petty — but true

The Clinton campaign trots out quotes from Obama's kindergarten teacher to prove that he's been aiming for the White House longer than he admits. Seriously.
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“I believe Mike Gravel”

We've opened a store on CafePress.com for Truth-O-Meter T-shirts that say "I believe Mike Gravel," "I don't believe Mike Gravel," etc. for each candidate. You can order "True" shirts for your favorite and "Pants on Fire" shirts for your foes. Click here to check them out.

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Romney’s In-State Tuition Charge

Romney's hard charge on immigration glosses over details of a complex issue.
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Giuliani left Iraq panel – or it left him

Rudy Giuliani joined the Iraq Study Group but then never made it to a meeting.
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Clinton vs. Obama: dueling health plans

Clinton says Obama leaves 15-million uncovered; he calls his plan "universal." Who's right?

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FACT SHEET: Who has been to Iraq?

We surveyed the 16 candidates to find out which ones have visited Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003. As of December 2007, nine have. Here are our findings along with a brief synopsis of each candidate's position on the war, taken from their Web sites.
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‘Policing the pols’

Check out Emily Yahr's analysis of PolitiFact in the new issue of the American Journalism Review. Also, take a look at Clark Hoyt's column Fact and Fiction on the Campaign Trail in Sunday's New York Times, which urges the paper to come up with something similar to our Truth-O- Meter. He says the NYT, "with its own rich Web offerings on the presidential campaign, would do well to showcase a similar fact-checking feature. Maybe the YouTube community could come up with the title, the music video and a truthfulness scale."

[Hey NYT editors! Save your money and just put our Truth-O-Meter widget on your page!]

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Why facts matter

In an essay, PolitiFact editor Bill Adair explains why facts are important — and why we nitpick.
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Romney misses easy grounder

At the CNN/YouTube debate, the candidates argued about immigration, crime and Iraq. We found they generally got their facts right, although Huckabee distorted the facts on an education program for immigrants and Romney missed an easy one about the Red Sox.
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