Brooks Jackson

We fact-check the president's address to Congress and the nation.

Big myths about the current debate

How accurate is Obama's claim of 150,000 jobs "saved or created"?

What Obama said—and what has been said about him.

Some exaggerations and misstatements from his evening news conference.

The president gets facts wrong about oil imports, mortgage aid and the transcontinental railroad, and more.

This marathon discussion had no shortage of factual malpractice.

New Democratic ads attacking House Republicans in the lead-up to the 2010 midterm elections don't tell the whole story.

Internet rumormongers spread misinformation about her husband, her tax plans, her plane rides and a "mental deficiency."

The bunk just keeps on coming.

We saw more aggressive fact-checking by journalists in this election than ever before. Unfortunately, as a post-election Annenberg Public Policy Center poll confirms, millions of voters were bamboozled anyway.

With the finish line in sight, Obama serves up familiar, pie-in-the-sky promises.

Liberal vets group attacks Dole, recycling one of the worst 'Whoppers of 2006.'

A misleading NRA ad claims Obama voted "to deny citizens the right of self-protection."

He accuses McCain of proposing to cut benefits. Not true.

McCain and Obama debated for the second time, in Nashville. We noted some misleading statements and mangled facts.

McCain and Obama accuse each other of falsehoods, and both have good reason.

The candidates were not 100 percent accurate. To say the least.

Obama-Biden ad misrepresents the Social Security plan McCain supported. Again.

Facts muddled in Mississippi McCain-Obama meeting.

He tells Social Security recipients their money would now be in the stock market under McCain's plan. False.

Those attacks on Palin that we debunked didn't come from Obama.

False Internet claims and rumors fly about McCain's running mate.

He made some flubs in accepting the nomination.

He stuck to the facts, except when he stretched them.

Obama makes misleading claims about ethics legislation and abortion at a church-sponsored forum. McCain exaggerates his tax-cut proposals.

Motorists could save more than 1 billion gallons of fuel a year, right now. But expanded offshore drilling would eventually produce even more.

McCain misrepresents Obama's tax proposals again. And again, and again.

An Obama ad says McCain's campaign got $2 million from "Big Oil." The total is actually $1.3 million.

An Obama ad says he'll "fast-track alternatives" to imported oil. Actually, his plan is a 10-year proposal with no guarantees.