Showing posts with label Mid-term Elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mid-term Elections. Show all posts
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Politi-Score: Elections 2010 Part One
Data Averages Overall
PolitiFact (PF) recently published its own evaluation of the recent mid-term election campaign, calling it, in Truth-o-Meter terms, a "Barely True." So, was it?
PolitiFact (PF) recently published its own evaluation of the recent mid-term election campaign, calling it, in Truth-o-Meter terms, a "Barely True." So, was it?
Well, a bit of time was spent was going through the ratings one by one from September 1 through November 1 (the day before the election) to see if I could validate Bill Adair's calculations. My numbers came out a bit different than his. Since he published his evaluation on October 27, I probably counted additional rulings that slightly changed the percentages that he calculated. I counted 414 rulings in total. This was a bit different from the way I had initially surveyed, which was by selecting only those individuals who had over five (5) rulings by going through the list as shown under PF's "People" tab. This time it was a total cross section of two months of all rulings, including organizations, bloggers and chain e-mails.
The result was an agreement with PolitiFact on "Barely True" in total. But further dissection of the numbers to divide them between Democrats and Republicans revealed who was, as judged by PolitiFact, more than Barely True.