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Showing posts with label 2008 election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2008 election. Show all posts
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Pew Research Center's Election ' 08
Sometimes in an intense political season it's good to step back from the daily tracking polls and breaking news. For a broader perspective on what the American public is thinking, check out Election '08: Pew Research Center's Coverage of This Year's Campaign. Here the nonpartisan research and polling center uncovers what they have found out about the issues, attitudes and beliefs shaping the election landscape, including society's interaction with the media and technology. Election '08 reports include both data and analysis, with graphics and actual polling questions behind the results.
Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat
Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Voting Location
Not sure of your voting location? The Smartvoter site by the League of Women voters can help. Use the Find My Ballot function to find voting locations and ballot information. The site also contains candidate information and links to other political information sites.
Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat
Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat
Monday, September 29, 2008
Fact-Checking Friday's Debate
Here are a few of the claims made by Senators McCain and Obama in Friday's presidential debate, and resources for checking their accuracy.
Factcheck.org and the Washington Post's Fact Checker blog each have their fact-checking for the whole debate on a single page, so those two links are only provided here. PolitiFact has separate pages for each claim, which are linked to individually.
- The kerfuffle over whose position on talking to Iran is most like Henry Kissinger's.
The answer is nuanced. Here is Kissinger's reaction.
- Obama's tax plans. Obama said that he would give 95% of people a tax cut. McCain said that Obama had voted to increase taxes on people making as little as $42,000 per year.
The answer to the latter depends on whether a vote on a budget resolution counts.
- McCain: "The average South Korean is 3 inches taller than the average North Korean."
This is true.
- McCain: Pakistan was a "failed state" before Musharraf came to power.
This was not answered by any of the fact-checking sites mentioned, but using "a country in social and economic collapse where the government no longer exercises authority" as a definition for a "failed state," this AP article calls the statement false.
Several more claims are fact-checked on the sites mentioned.
Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat
Factcheck.org and the Washington Post's Fact Checker blog each have their fact-checking for the whole debate on a single page, so those two links are only provided here. PolitiFact has separate pages for each claim, which are linked to individually.
- The kerfuffle over whose position on talking to Iran is most like Henry Kissinger's.
The answer is nuanced. Here is Kissinger's reaction.
- Obama's tax plans. Obama said that he would give 95% of people a tax cut. McCain said that Obama had voted to increase taxes on people making as little as $42,000 per year.
The answer to the latter depends on whether a vote on a budget resolution counts.
- McCain: "The average South Korean is 3 inches taller than the average North Korean."
This is true.
- McCain: Pakistan was a "failed state" before Musharraf came to power.
This was not answered by any of the fact-checking sites mentioned, but using "a country in social and economic collapse where the government no longer exercises authority" as a definition for a "failed state," this AP article calls the statement false.
Several more claims are fact-checked on the sites mentioned.
Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat
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