Fact Check

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Featured Coverage

Get the facts, not the talking points.

• Fact Check: Health Care
Candidates Trade Hacks Over Health Care

• Stat Check
Bush, Kerry Use Statistics Selectively

• Fact Check: Debate Talking Points
Misstatements risen to the status of classics in last debate, and some fresh ones too

Related links

• FactCheck.org
Campaign ad analysis from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
• Campaign Desk
Critique and analysis of 2004 campaign coverage from Columbia Journalism Review
• On The Issues
Non-profit non-partisan issues-based candidate information

Archived Coverage

Media analysis of the accuracy of Bush and Kerry's claims began during the debates. Here are more stories that aim to get accuracy into reader's hands.

Debate Three
• Facts put debate in different light
Both candidates say things that wilt in beam of factuality

Debate Two
• Debate Fact Check
Candidates walk around details while roaming 'town hall' stage

VP Debate
• Bent Facts: Cheney, Edwards each mix up the record on Iraq war

Debate One
• Debate Fact Check
A wayward claim about troop withdrawal, funny math on war costs and more