One of the most heated exchanges between Rick Scott and Alex Sink at their third and final gubernatorial debate on Oct. 25, 2010, centered on fraud. But it was Sink, not Scott, in the hot seat. We check the claims from both candidates.
When politicians want to tie their opponents to a controversial bill, there are few tactics as powerful as labeling their vote for the bill as "the deciding vote." But determining a deciding vote is harder than it looks.
Our 8th state site, a partnership with the Richmond Times-Dispatch, brings the Truth-O-Meter to the Old Dominion.
At Florida's third and final gubernatorial debate on Oct. 25, 2010, the only thing Alex Sink and Rick Scott agreed on is that the minimum wage is $7.55. Both were wrong. (It's $7.25). And so it went.
Gov. Rick Perry's favorite number: 850,000, which he touts as the Texas jobs added on his watch.
Democratic challenger Bill White floats a different doozy: 1 million--nearly the number of unemployed Texans early this year.
Conflicting job claims often test the Texas Truth-O-Meter...
Independent Charlie Crist and Democrat Kendrick Meek went on the offensive against Republican U.S. Senate frontrunner Marco Rubio during a live CNN/St. Petersburg Times debate on Oct. 24, 2010. Who scored points with the Truth-O-Meter?
Did Marco Rubio really say MSNBC's Keith Olbermann should leave the country? Is Kendrick Meek's tax cut math right? Can Charlie Crist finally shed the flip-flop label? These are just a few of the questions PolitiFact Florida examined following the Oct. 24, 2010, hourlong debate on CNN.
With just over a week to go before Election Day, candidates in key races across Ohio are showing no signs of letting up on each other.
Recent polls have the governor"s race as a tossup. Several of the other statewide races remain close. And some key congressional races could play a big role in determining which party controls the House of Representatives in January.
As candidates, and their surrogates, slug it out on the airwaves and in campaign mailings, truth sometimes is becoming a casualty.
With only days to go until Election Day, candidates kept the Truth-O-Meter whirling last week.
Our trusty meter ventured overseas and back again for claims on Mexican workers, Chinese wind turbines and Washington health care.
Homegrown controversies over political TV ads on the rape shield law and education funding were also up for inspection.
No one fared well. All our rulings were Half True or worse.
Election Day is Nov. 2.
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Given Lincoln Chafee's record of being willing to buck the system and the Chafee family's reputation, Rhode Islanders were jarred to hear the independent gubernatorial candidate being accused of consorting with someone who might have ties to organized crime.
But that's what happened earlier this month when a local news website reported on Chafee's work at a foundation established by a Ukrainian billionaire.
We explored Chafee's role there, and got different opinions on the politics and intrigue swirling around the effort to set up a think tank in one of the world's fledgling democracies.
We put ads from the Golden State races to the test on our Truth-O-Meter.
A quarter century ago, legislative hopeful Rick Perry of Haskell filed paperwork with the state indicating he was worth about $13,000. By 2009, we figure, Gov. Perry was worth a little more than $1 million. That is, his net worth increased 77-fold in 24 years.
Why care? Well, how politicians make money is often an attack point — sometimes clear-cut enough for the Truth-O-Meter.