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Clinton vs. the Truth-O-Meter
By Bill Adair June 3, 2008

In this column, PolitiFact editor Bill Adair traces the Clinton campaign through our Truth-O-Meter rulings. The turning point was Bosnia.

Obama skips public financing
By Angie Drobnic Holan June 1, 2008

Obama once said his contributor network was akin to public financing. We said....

Digging up dirt on Michelle Obama
By Angie Drobnic Holan May 30, 2008

E-mailers go after Sen. Barack Obama by digging into his wife's college years. They take Michelle Obama's senior thesis and add their own fabrication.

Visiting Iraq
By Alexander Lane May 30, 2008

McCain and Obama see Iraq differently, but the argument now is over who has seen Iraq the most.

Obama’s Auschwitz error
May 28, 2008

In recounting a World War II story about his uncle, Obama named the wrong concentration camp, but we found other details were correct. His uncle saw the horrors of the Holocaust.

Caution: Lobbyists on the loose!
By Angie Drobnic Holan May 23, 2008

Obama bashes McCain on the influence issue. He's right, but McCain has a long record of reform.

More on MoveOn and McCain
By Angie Drobnic Holan May 22, 2008

We check two more items from an e-mail sent out from MoveOn.org targeting John McCain. This time on housing and torture.

Obama would keep his enemies closer
May 22, 2008

In what looks to be the new political wedge of this campaign, John McCain and Barack Obama exchange fire on the issue of presidential-level diplomacy.

Obama, McCain misfire on vets benefits
By Adriel Bettelheim May 19, 2008

The Obama and McCain campaigns exchanged fire on veterans issues, and neither struck the truth.

McCain and the sinister ministers
By Angie Drobnic Holan May 15, 2008

Evangelicals John Hagee and Rod Parsley are supporting John McCain. MoveOn.org withholds its blessing.

It’s not the Clinton you think
By Bill Adair May 14, 2008

"Clinton pastor" convicted of child sex abuse, says a newspaper Web site and a posting on an Obama campaign blog. It's a recipe for outrage.

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