Lori Robertson

Republican and bipartisan health care proposals may be up for discussion at Obama's summit. What are the details of these plans?

Despite Obama's claims, it's unlikely that everyone will be able to keep their current health care coverage under the current reform plan.

Could a public insurance plan spell the end of private insurance companies?

SummaryPresident Obama tried to sell his health care overhaul in prime time, mangling some facts in the process. He also strained to make the job sound easier to pay for than experts predict.

A conservative group's ad implies Congress is on its way to instituting a British- or Canadian-style health system.

Last year, we were getting smarter. This year, not so much.

Ads targeting Spanish-speaking voters make claims we've heard before.

A conservative group misleads voters mightily on Obama's tax plans for small businesses.

They attack McCain's plan. One ad uses a bogus tax figure; another makes a false claim about coverage. SummaryTwo labor unions are running ads falsely characterizing McCain's health care plan.

McCain and Obama each make false claims about the other's health care plan. We sort through the misinformation.

A McCain-Palin ad claims the Obama-Biden ticket opposes clean coal. Not true.

Obama ad twists McCain's words on health care "deregulation."

An Obama-Biden ad says McCain supports "cutting benefits in half" for Social Security recipients. False!

A McCain ad comparing Palin to Obama isn't all above board.

Not pictured here: The people in suits shown with McCain in an Obama ad are not lobbyists, as the narrator implies.

Republicans claim Obama "voted 94 times for higher taxes." But their count is inflated and misleading.

McCain claims he "supported every investigation" into the government's role regarding the hurricane, when in fact he twice voted against an independent commission.

The new McCain loves tax cuts. But many of his claims about them are off.

His new ad only tells half the story of what his health proposal could mean for U.S. workers.

I've noticed that chain e-mails, particularly those about politics, have a lot of things in common: urgent and frightening messages; spelling errors; a tendency to blame mainstream media for not telling the real story; and false, misleading, utterly bogus, and completely off-base claims.If there was ever a case where readers should apply a guilty-until-proven-innocent standard, this is it.

An Obama mailer uses dubious, disputed statistics about how much the trade deal hurt Ohio workers.

New Web and radio ads by the Arizona senator lack context.

Bilingual misinformation from the GOP field

The Giuliani campaign says his immigration policy in New York wasn't like that of other cities. That's not true.

Giuliani twists facts about crime and liberalism in the Big Apple.