We who live in "swing states" are getting our fill of political ads provided by the parties and by other groups hiding behind nice names. There are resources on the internet which can provide information that will let you check the truth of those ads.
I strongly suspect we will find lots of lies by all parties.
FactCheck.org a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania:Â Â www.factcheck.org
Politifat.com Tampa Bay Times (won a Pulitzer Prize for web sites)Â www.politifact.com
Fact Checker of the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker
For fiscal analysis:
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: (a "progressive" site) www.cbpp.org
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: (bipartisan) www.crfb.org
Concord Coalition: (non-partisan, started by senator Paul Tsongas (Dem) and Sen Warren Rudman (Rep)) www.concordcaolition.org
I am confident that there are other such good sources but these should at least get one started. (Look out for sites that make only one party or one "wing" of the political spectrum look bad.)
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I'm not happy with either candidates. I mean I know who I'm going to vote for, but he it's not like I'm happy with who I ended up choosing. Neither are who I want in the White House.
the TRUE question is why? As of this comment it is a HOT TOPIC . . .
Both parties are controlled by big money interests. Neither can validly claim innocence on NDAA or repeal of Glass-Steagall.
Did you see the commercial? Mit Romney will do for you what he did for us, NOTHING! Romney's energy policies are heavily tilted toward increased production of carbon-based resources, oil, gas and coal, that environmentalists blame for global warming.
Romney/Ryan ? Mitt Romney's company, Bain Capital, closed the GST Steel ...
Type Private, LLC
Industry Private equity
Founded 1984
Founder(s) Bill Bain [1], Mitt Romney, T. Coleman Andrews III, Eric Kriss
Headquarters 111 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Number of locations Boston, Chicago, New York, London, Palo Alto, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Mumbai
Key people Joshua Bekenstein, John Connaughton, Paul Edgerley, Mark Nunnelly, Stephen Pagliuca, Jordan Hitch
Products Venture capital, investment management, public equity, high-yield assets, Mezzanine capital, leveraged buyouts and growth capital
Total assets US$ 66 billion (2012)
Employees 400+ (2012)[2]
Website www.baincapital.com
-- Forget taxes, gun rights and gay marriage. The new hot-button campaign issue is private equity.