White House exaggerates Boehner’s tax cut stance
The White House says the Republican leader changed his position on the tax cuts. We find it's not much of a change.
The White House says the Republican leader changed his position on the tax cuts. We find it's not much of a change.
Nov. 2 looms — OK, it's about 50 days away — which means our mailbox (and our Facebook page) is piling up with campaign fodder. In the pile are more statements to test, and, naturally, more mail from you.
The ghosts of politics past and future haunted the Truth-O-Meter last week.
AJC PolitiFact Georgia went back in time to explore unemployment during the era of President Ronald Reagan and looked at decades of GOP gubernatorial candidate Nathan Deal's tax returns.
We also looked into the future. Deal's opponent former Gov. Roy Barnes promised one where an energy-efficiency retrofitting project brings 10,000 jobs to Georgia. An environmentalist predicted one of oil dependence. And President Barack Obama raised the specter of a country where Social Security is privatized.
Here's how we ruled:
We're giving the Truth-O-Meter a bit of a rest. For the past few weeks, the increasingly frantic primary campaigns have kept the Meter spinning so fast we worried it might catch on fire. So we decided to reprise some of the more than two dozen rulings we've made on candidates who will face voters in Tuesday's primary elections. We've rated claims on health care, campaign donations, illegal immigration, job creation, and whether one candidate told "3 lies in 10 seconds" about his opponent. We haven't gotten to every candidate. We've focused on the major races and what we considered to be the most clear-cut and interesting statements. Here are some of the highlights.
We check some of the worst distortions in the immigration debate.
With Democrats facing tough 2010 midterm elections, Obama attacks Republicans in two speeches.
Claims about beheadings in Arizona, a bogus Charlie Crist endorsement and something Condi Rice never said earn Pants on Fire ratings.
Some political analysts say there are similarities between the recession Reagan faced in 1982 and the one President Obama faces today. We check the facts on a claim about unemployment.
Our new viewer's guide tells you what to expect from the impending avalanche of campaign ads. You'll see candidates attacked for being lobbyists and insiders pretending to be outsiders.
We add our sixth state to the PolitiFact network, a partnership with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. And we've got more state sites to announce soon.
Politicos had money and a mosque on their minds last week.
We covered statements on the federal government's money woes, casinos, a tax break for low-income families, and the mosque near ground zero. A diverse crew including conservative TV host Glenn Beck and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Michael Thurmond graced our pages.
Some did better than others on the Truth-O-Meter and its cousin, the Flip-O-Meter, which measures flip-flops, but all escaped our worst rating: Pants On Fire. Maybe next week.
Here's a roundup of our rulings.
Readers sound off on our latest fact-checks about the New York City mosque, government spending and Glenn Beck.