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With the entry of former pizza CEO and talk show host Herman Cain into the 2012 presidential race, our fair state now boasts two presidential prospects.

This means PolitiFact Georgia has the pleasure of checking both of them.

Newt Gingrich, whose campaign offices are in Buckhead, earned a True on health care. Cain scored a Mostly True on his claim about food stamp use and False on a gaffe about the U.S. Constitution. 

Not to ignore national politics, we gave U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi a Pants on Fire for a chart she posted about the national debt. Her Republican counterpart, U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, earned a Mostly True for a statement he made on U.S. coal to the Atlanta Press Club.

Run, Georgia, run!

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The Buck-O-Meter will track new Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn’s performance on each of his campaign promises — we’ve identified 33 so far.

PolitiFact Florida reporter Aaron Sharockman explains two recent Truth-O-Meter rulings to Bay News 9's Al Ruechel.

The Texas governor said Friday he'll consider running for president. That's contrary to a campaign promise that he would not. So PolitiFact Texas moves the Perry-O-Meter needle on that promise to Stalled.

Is the country ready for another Texas president? After repeatedly denying that he’d run for the nation’s highest office, Gov. Rick Perry changed tack, saying he’d consider it. Time to update the Perry-O-Meter...

Chrysler Group LLC announced this week that it had repaid all its government loans, with interest, six years ahead of schedule. GM made similar claims last year. But does this really settle the tab with the American taxpayer? We take a look.

Gov. Rick Perry hosted Greta Van Susteren of Fox News on the Texas border this week and talked about border security, the president’s recent El Paso stop and that Perry is "tempted" to run for president in 2012. We heard claims like those we’ve checked before.

It's an eye-catching -- if not eye-popping -- ad. But is the plan by Rep. Paul Ryan  really tantamount to throwing Granny from the cliff?

It's a popular talking point for conservative lawmakers: They say Democrats are expanding government so much that they're now banning the trusty light bulb. But the law doesn't ban the bulbs, it just sets efficiency standards. And it passed with bipartisan support and was signed into law by a Republican president.

We found that none of the last seven Virginia governors has created jobs fast enough to keep up with working-age population growth. Of the nine governors dating back to 1978, only Democrat Chuck Robb met the standard set forth by McAuliffe. Robb led the state from 1982 to 1986.

More than a week before the end of the legislative session, Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill limiting the power of governments to seize private property. That’s a Promise Kept.

The Star-Ledger will launch our ninth state site, PolitiFact New Jersey, next month.