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Potpourri of promises

January 8, 2010

We've updated several dozen campaign promises this week as we get close to the one-year mark of Obama's presidency. Here's a sampling.

Do people on Wall Street earn just $70,000?

January 7, 2010

The New York mayor says most people working in finance earn just $70,000-80,000 per year. We check the numbers.

A Promise Broken on a vow to end no-bid contracts

January 6, 2010

Obama said he would require competition for all contracts over $25,000, but he hasn't done so.

Obama’s broken promise on health care talks

January 5, 2010

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist rekindles a complaint that health care talks have occurred behind closed doors. We find he's right.

Who has more admirers — the pope or Glenn Beck?

January 4, 2010

We check the polls to see if a columnist is right that Glenn Beck has better numbers than the pope.

Cheney claim on Obama earns Pants on Fire

January 3, 2010

The former vice president says President Obama won't admit the United States is at war with terrorists. But a check of Obama's speeches indicates the president has said that many times.

Our wildest and wackiest claims of 2009

December 31, 2009

PolitiFact staffers choose the silliest and most unusual claims of the past year.

PolitiFact’s Top 10 pundit checks for 2009

December 30, 2009

Political pundits helped shape the national debate on topics ranging from the economic stimulus to health care. Here's 10 of our favorites this year.

The Truth-O-Meter and the health care debate of 2009

December 29, 2009

When it came to statements on health care, the Truth-O-Meter found lots of distortions.

Our readers’ top 10

December 28, 2009

Our fact-check of Joe Wilson's "You lie!" tops the list of our readers' top 10 Truth-O-Meter items.

PolitiFact’s Five Surprising “True” ratings

December 24, 2009

With our Lie of the Year, we focused on the biggest falsehoods of 2009. But we also want to highlight our findings at the other end of the Truth-O-Meter.

It is a special deal for Ben Nelson and Nebraska

December 23, 2009

Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson insists he didn't get a special deal for his state, but we call that False.

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