Of the first 5,000 PolitiFact rulings, it was established that 8.7% of them (435) were Pants on Fire. I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the affiliation breakdown in that category:
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| Click to enlarge: Compare this graph to previous post which shows Republican/Democrat/Other total distribution of rulings. |
If everything was perfectly proportional, that is, Democrats and Republicans had Pants on Fire in the same proportion as the number of rulings, the Democrats would have had 170 Pants on Fire (versus 106), the Republicans would have had 226 (versus 271) and "other" would have been at 39 (versus 58). In other words, while the Republicans had about 2.5 times as many Pants on Fire rulings as the Democrats, they are about 17% higher than what they would have had proportionately (62% Pants on Fire versus their making up 53% of all rulings), and the Democrats are about 37% lower, while those of neither party are about 50% higher in the Pants on Fire category. Of course we cannot expect it to be perfectly proportional to the population of rulings, but what this shows is that the Republicans Pants on Fire are not that severe, as people like Eric Ostermeier would have you believe.
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