A year later, still plenty of partisanship
Obama promised to "turn the page on the ugly partisanship" of Washington. But after a year in office, it's still ugly.
Obama promised to "turn the page on the ugly partisanship" of Washington. But after a year in office, it's still ugly.
One year into the Obama presidency, we explore how his campaign promises have fared on our Obameter.
We launch our first state site in a partnership with the Austin American-Statesman.
We've updated several dozen campaign promises this week as we get close to the one-year mark of Obama's presidency. Here's a sampling.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist rekindles a complaint that health care talks have occurred behind closed doors. We find he's right.
The former vice president says President Obama won't admit the United States is at war with terrorists. But a check of Obama's speeches indicates the president has said that many times.
PolitiFact staffers choose the silliest and most unusual claims of the past year.
Our fact-check of Joe Wilson's "You lie!" tops the list of our readers' top 10 Truth-O-Meter items.
We tally our Truth-O-Meter ratings from 2009 and find truth was a casualty of the political discourse.
As we dig deeper into Obama's campaign promises, we find more of them have little or no progress.
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We've created a game based on the health care debate! Just mark off a square each time you hear one of these falsehoods!