Political Fact Checking

I mean, come on everyone, we know all political leaders, whether Presidents, House, Senate, or State lie. It is a known fact they also flip flop to gain votes and so on and so on and so on. Well, it is time we all start checking the facts, things we may not have known because we are not standing with the candidate 24/7, or things we may not know about the past. It is time that we the people call them out on lies and find who we really think deserves to run things. It is time that we comment on posts on youtube and blogs to back up our statements and let others know the truth whether you or they want to hear it or not . It is time for smart debate among ourselves and those in Washington, the facts are out there and more are using these sites and others to find the truth.

If my question is not answered the way I like or I just cant believe the answer, then I look further. You can research with wiki or news archives. Facts are important for all parties whether Republican, Democratic, or Independent..... I hope you will find this page useful.

Politifact is my favorite, I just love it. It is not only informative, easy to get around and great reading, but also fun!

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PolitiFact.com is a project that is operated by the St. Petersburg Times, a project in which its reporters and editors "fact-check statements by members of Congress, the White House, lobbyists and interest groups.

They publish original statements and their evaluations on the PolitiFact.com website, and assign each a "Truth-O-Meter" rating. The ratings range from "True" for completely accurate statements to "Pants on Fire" (from the taunt "Liar, liar, pants on fire") for outright lies.

PolitiFact.com was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2009 for "its fact-checking initiative during the 2008 presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters

Wiki

As you will see the checkers are bipartisan, looking up and finding facts is the goal. This site offers the truth-o-meter and if you click you can read more about the statement and truth about it. The meter goes from very true to pants on fire false. Like I said, I more respect the word of someone who looks up facts than listen to the media. Reading is a gift humans have, why not use it and find out the truth.

When you are on the website, under the meter is an underlined little blurb as you can see here, it is a link you can click for more information.

In image below you will see president Obama's head on a meter and a GOP elephant on one as well, these are promise meters and what they have done recently to achieve the goal and how the goal of the promise is progressing.

FactCheck.org a non-partisan, nonprofit, set up to help stop lies and deceptions during elections.

I enjoy visiting this site as well, it's pretty easy to get around and understand more around debate and stories, as well findings.

FactCheck has won three Webby Awards in the Politics category, in 2008, 2010 and 2011.

Most of its content consists of rebuttals to what it considers inaccurate, misleading, or false claims by politicians. FactCheck has also targeted misleading claims from various partisan groups. Besides maintaining a website, FactCheck.org distributes audio stories by podcast and iTunes Radio.

With three television channels (C-SPAN, C-SPAN2 and C-SPAN3), one radio station What is wonderful about Cspan is that you can watch live the debates on bills and such and look up any flip flops in the library to me flip flops are just as bad as lies unless they give a great reason for it

Cspan Live http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/

Cspan Library http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/

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Brian Lamb is C-SPAN's chairman and CEO. C-SPAN was launched on March 19, 1979, in time for the first televised session made available by the House of Representatives, beginning with a speech by then-Tennessee representative Al Gore.

C-Span works with a group of websites that provide streaming media and archives of C-SPAN programs. C-SPAN's television channels are available to over 100 million cable and satellite households within the United States, while WCSP-FM, also called C-SPAN Radio, is broadcast on FM radio in Washington, D.C., and is available throughout the U.S. on XM Satellite Radio, and via internet streaming and an iPhone app.

Read more on Wikipedia.org

I added this link because it is fascinating how accurate they predict outcomes of elctions.

Five Thirty Eight, the geniuses who can predict most everything in politics correctly. The site has polls and results, maps, blogs from top political analysts, and of course the real genius behind it all is Nate Silver.

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Five Thirty Eight is a blog created by Nate Silver. Sometimes colloquially referred to as 538 dot com or just 538, the website takes it's name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college.

Established on March 7, 2008 as FiveThirtyEight.com, in August 2010 the blog became a licensed feature of the New York Times online and was renamed FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus.

During the presidential primaries and general election of 2008, the site compiled polling data through a unique methodology derived from Silver's experience in baseball sabermetrics to "balance out the polls with comparative demographic data" and "weighting each poll based on the pollster's historical track record, sample size, and recentness of the poll".

For the 2008 Presidential Election, FiveThirtyEight.com also used computer models to simulate the election 10,000 times per day in order to provide a continually up-to-date assessment of probability for electoral outcomes. The method proved to be highly accurate, as Silver correctly predicted the winner of 49 of the 50 states in the presidential election, as well as every Senate race in 2008.

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