In a speech on Friday, President Barack Obama ridiculed opponents of the health care law for misrepresenting it that way. It so happens PolitiFact has weighed in all three of these Republican attacks.
U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, former chair of the House Republican Conference, ended months of speculation with a formal announcement that he will not run for president in 2012. We review his record so far on the Truth-O-Meter.
After inquiries by PolitiFact Virginia on Thursday, the SCC acknowledged that it had given Armstrong incorrect data. Rates actually had climbed about 33 percent from 2007 to 2009, not 90 percent.
The three speakers on Tuesday night -- President Barack Obama and Republican Reps. Paul Ryan and Michele Bachmann -- were more careful than other politicians during the 2010 campaign in providing needed caveats to their statistical claims.
Obama struck a centrist tone in his second State of the Union speech, arguing for corporate tax cuts and fewer government regulations.
Obama struck a centrist tone in his second State of the Union speech, arguing for corporate tax cuts and fewer government regulations.
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Make it 32! We're adding a promise to the Perry-O-Meter, our device for tracking how Gov. Rick Perry's campaign pledges shake out. Our latest find involves the voter identification issue that roiled the 2009 Legislature.
Ed FitzGerald rode into office on a white horse of reform, promising a "new era in county government."
Cuyahoga County's first executive made plenty of other promises, too. But can he possibly keep them all?
Politicians, the Truth-O-Meter’s got your number. Or rather, numbers.
Georgia’s leaders use all kinds of statistics to shore up their stances. Some mean exactly what politicians claim. Others? Not so much.
Last week, we analyzed numbers on Snowpocalypse 2011, the safety of the nation’s food supply, immigration and health care.
For extra measure, we added up President Barack Obama’s batting average.
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We examine an ever-increasing charge that Democratic proposals are "job killing."
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