In this analysis, the lower overall ratings of organizations, bloggers and chain e-mails were removed from the Politi-Score averages to see what effect it would have between Republicans and Democrats. When PolitiFact made a Facebook request early in the election season for more liberal chain e-mails from its fan base, I thought perhaps there were a lot more right-wing e-mails, and that this might weigh the averages down for the Republicans thereby favoring the Democrats , since the blogs, etc., have already been found to be, on average, less truthful than the candidates themselves. But as noted in the previous analysis, the patterns were comparable, and although there were more right or Republican rulings, they weren’t enough in number, not too unfairly balanced with the Democrats (43 Republican versus 34 Democrat rulings), and their pants weren’t on fire enough, so to speak, to move the Politi-Score up substantially for the Republicans. In fact, the effect was almost nil, overall raising the "truthiness" scores for each party roughly five percent, using the wide measure. It was a miniscule under-one-percent using my previous grading scale.
Note: There were twenty additional rulings which could not be identified with either party. They were included in the total average (#Rulings and Overall columns) but are not broken down.
So far, similar pattern. Looking at the news sources (PolitiFact states) might yield more results worthy of note. That’s next.
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