The Kay Bailey Hutchison campaign just put out an online video touting that more than 6,500 donors have sent her checks so far this year. You can watch it here, for what it's worth. We'll know more in a...
Democratic U.S. Senate challenger Rick Noriega, who's had only one ad on TV this fall, spiced it up today with criticism of Sen. John Cornyn for dismissing "Chicken Little" predictions about the economy as "really overblown." Noriega says the...
The Republican National Committee is out with a new ad this morning warning that Obama is "untested." The visual metaphor is a storm. The storm could get worse and hooboy it would be scary to have an inexperienced president...
An Obama-Biden TV ad says John McCain's health care plan would be the "largest middle-class tax increase in history." A McCain-Palin/RNC radio ad says Barack Obama's plan "will rob 50 million employees of their health coverage." Both claims are false,...
If you read Karen Brooks' fine story today and want to watch the videos she wrote about, here's "The One" and here's a link where we posted "Keating Economics" earlier....
I know we're doubling up on fact checks today, but this one focuses on new ads by John McCain and Barack Obama that target the economic crisis. Politifact looked at this new ad by John McCain's campaign: Politifact ruled that...
A new John McCain-Sarah Palin radio ad running in four states says the Barack Obama-Joe Biden ticket opposes clean coal. FactCheck.org says that's false. An Obama ad is taken to task for linking McCain to the closing of a Pennsylvania...
For more on John McCain's incorrect claim that Sarah Palin has sought no earmarks as governor, click here. The Associated Press reports that Ms. Palin "asked for nearly $200 million in targeted spending for the 2009 fiscal year." Along the...
The television spot that the John McCain campaign touted as "historic" earlier this week aired late last night, almost immediately after Barack Obama concluded his presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. Instead of a tactical nuclear weapon,...