Some Food for Thought

[John_Doe80004]

Assessing the candidates' overall truthfulness

http://www.startribune.com/assessing-the-candidates-overall-truthfulness/372603041/

With primaries completed this week in Florida and Ohio, as well as in Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina, we thought it was a good time to look at the remaining candidates trying to capture their party's nomination for president. In the accompanying chart, you'll see a snapshot of where their Truth-O-Meter scorecards stood as of this week using PolitiFact's system of rating the accuracy of statements made. (To learn about the methodology, go to http://tinyurl.com/hp6km47, and to access dynamic scorecards, which update automatically with new fact-checks, go to http://tinyurl.com/zzs9g5f). The candidates are ranked by polling average.

[Kip Humphrey]

1. HILLARY BEATS BERNIE!!!

Mostly False to Pants On Fire aggregate scores:

Hillary: 48% of the time
Bernie: 21% of the time

Hillary wins big by 27%!


Include Half True and the aggregate scores are:

Hillary: 84% of the time
Bernie: 37% of the time

Hillary smashes Bernie, winning by 47%!

[cosmicone]

2. Meh ... n/t

[djean111]

3. I will take Bernie, thanks.

No pants on fire there.
And it would be instructive to see just what exactly the topics were, I would imagine. This is like that "Hillary voted the same as Bernie 93% of the time! They are almost identical!" - except one of those differing votes was Iraq.

Anyhoo, this does not cancel out Hillary's proclivity for war and fracking and the TPP, amongst a slew of other things I abhor - so feh.

[John_Doe80004]

4. don't get me wrong

i am still a big Bernie supporter and i will support him right up to the nomination and further if he does get nominated. if Hillary is nominated then i will support her.

i absolutely will not vote republican they range from clown car to down right insane.