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Fact-checking the TV game of connect the dots

August 22, 2012

The Obama and Romney campaigns are engaged in a fierce battle of connect the dots.

Faced with incomplete and sometimes skimpy details to attack their opponents, the campaigns are making some overly generous assumptions and -- sometimes -- drawing some wildly inaccurate conclusions.

Here are some of our recent fact-checks on campaign ads that try to connect the dots:

Our free new app: Settle It! PolitiFact’s Argument Ender

August 22, 2012

Our new app, underwritten by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will help you resolve dinner-table disputes and test your knowledge of the facts in American politics. It's available now for iPhones and Android devices. 

Fact-checking the TV game of connect the dots

August 21, 2012

On "The Today Show," we discussed recent campaign ads from Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

6,000 & 5

August 20, 2012

We reaching two milestones this week: our fifth anniversary and our 6,000th Truth-O-Meter item.

Sorting out the truth in the campaign ad wars

August 8, 2012

If you're watching the Olympics or just tuning in to your local news, the campaign ads can be relentless. We've put dozens of them to the Truth-O-Meter as part of our Message Machine partnership with NPR.

Falsehoods and half-truths in debate on gun control

July 23, 2012

No, Obama and Hillary Clinton are not negotiating a U.N. treaty to ban handguns and no, you don't have to list your guns on your 1040.

‘Obamanomics Explained’ is not a PolitiFact chart

July 17, 2012

Someone is misusing our logo and spreading this image on Facebook. It is not a PolitiFact chart.

Stretching the truth (again!) on health care

July 9, 2012

We put new claims about the health care law to the Truth-O-Meter and find more exaggerations and falsehoods.

Have lip readers figured out Michelle Obama’s 9/11 comments?

June 26, 2012

A chain email claims that a lip-reading instructor for the River School has determined that at a 9/11 ceremony, Michelle Obama said, "All this for a damn flag." We check the facts.

Truth-stretching about Arizona immigration law

June 26, 2012

We've checked many claims about SB 1070, the Arizona immigration law, and often found the claims were a stretch.

Truth-stretching about Arizona immigration law

June 25, 2012

We've checked many claims about SB 1070, the Arizona immigration law, and often found the claims were a stretch.

Checking the facts on Romneycare and Obamacare

June 18, 2012

As we await a Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Democratic health care law, a widely circulated Facebook post makes some provocative claims about the differences between Obamacare and Romneycare. We put the claims to the Truth-O-Meter.

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