As Olympics open, a super PAC attack against Romney
Priorities USA Action, a super PAC supporting President Barack Obama, released an ad that uses the trappings of the Olympics to attack Mitt Romney.
Priorities USA Action, a super PAC supporting President Barack Obama, released an ad that uses the trappings of the Olympics to attack Mitt Romney.
Cruz and Sadler, November foes, have each met the Texas Truth-O-Meter.
For more than two weeks, the Romney and Obama campaigns have argued about whether President Barack Obama insulted entrepreneurs.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders keeps tweeting about the wealth gap.
Weekend claims target NJ governor's efforts in both areas.
Heading into the Texas primary runoffs, we’ve stacked up about a dozen related fact-checks. Meantime, a Sarah Palin check is in the works.
Last week's International AIDS Conference prompted us to crank up the Obameter, our database of the president's campaign promises.
Observers decrying a decline in the quality of political discourse used to cite 30-second sound bites as a symptom or cause.
The word "criminal" has popped up in recent, checked candidate or campaign group statements. And for fiscal wonks, there’s a whopping Truth-O-Metered sales tax claim.
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As the referendum on a tax to fund transportation projects for metro Atlanta nears, our fact check tally rises.
Your PolitiFact Georgia scribes have completed nearly two dozen fact checks on Tuesday's referendum, which has made bedfellows out of earstwhile enemies. The Sierra Club has joined forces with members of Georgia's Tea Party to oppose the measure, while Chamber of Commerce-types have allied with sustainability advocates to rally for it.
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Those for and against the one-percent tax increase say that the facts and figures are on their side. Sometimes they are. Other times they aren’t.
We'll tell you who's right in this roundup of our rulings.
And check back soon. We'll post more as we write new stories.
Here’s how both sides have fared so far:
The road to Tuesday’s monumental transportation tax vote is paved with truths, rumors and innuendoes.
Leave it to the Truth-O-Meter to inspect every bump and crack in the pavement. Since spring, PolitiFact published nearly two dozen stories checking statements about the 10-year, 1 percent sales tax, otherwise known as T-SPLOST. It could raise $8.5 billion over 10 years, after inflation.
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Both sides got it wrong some of the time. Statements by supporters and opponents often fell short of True.
And once Election Day is over, we expect the rhetoric to continue. Metro Atlantans love to gripe about traffic.
Bring it on. We could go for miles and miles.
Read these summaries of our transportation tax rulings below.