Obama/Romney Scorecard

As we lead up to the election, I thought it would be interesting to track Politifact's evaluations of Obama's and Romney's public comments.

For ease, I am just going to cluster them into two categories: True/Mostly True, and Mostly False/False/Pants on Fire. I have excluded only one category, Half True, though obviously you can figure out that number if you wish by using simple math.

Here are the numbers as of today...

Obama
True: 46%
False 29%

Romney
True: 29%
False: 43%

What is really sad about this is that even though Obama's "honesty numbers" are better than Romney's at the moment, he still has almost a third of his comments that are not truthful or accurate

As another side note, I checked out the infamous "American's for Prosperity" file. This of course is the Koch brothers funded group that is currently paying for a lot of the anti-Obama ads on TV and that has been a major player in attempting to shape public perception, particularly in the 2010 mid-term elections.

Of their public comments (ie advertisements), NONE of them rated even mostly true. An astounding 86% of their evaluated statements were rated as false, mostly false, or pants on fire false. That is truly sad (though I suppose it gives Scott Walker and his 63% false rating something to shoot for).