If anything, no matter who wins, hopefully we have learned how seriously broken our democratic system is... are critically-aware, informed citizens necessary to this process? Where do most people get their information? Do people access multiple sources (with multiple biases)? Does anyone bother to read information sources that are coming from outside the US? How much money was spent in campaigns this year to manipulate us and how much of it was taxpayer money? Why should we care about these questions? Who has the time anymore--working multiple jobs, commuting long distances, eating toxic foods, and worrying about too many things...
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Fact Check
The Whoppers of 2004
Bush and Kerry repeat discredited claims in their final flurry of ads. Here's our pre-election summary of the misinformation we found during the Bush-Kerry presidential campaign.
Summary
As election day neared, both candidates continued to twist and falsify in their final TV ads -- and in a blizzard of expensive mail as well.
Bush continued to accuse Kerry of proposing government-run health care and more taxes for middle-income persons, and of voting in the past to "slash" spending on intelligence and of opposing mainstream military weapons. Kerry claimed Bush would cut Social Security benefits 45% and that he subsidizes companies that send jobs overseas. And those are just some of the untruths the candidates are feeding to voters.
In this article we again take on those claims, and summarize the major misrepresentations made by both sides since the start of the general election campaign last March when Kerry sewed up the Democratic nomination.
The full article with links and charts (and bells and whistles)
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