by Luke D’Onofrio
This week I will focus on the upcoming election. By now we have seen two presidential debates excluding the vice presidential one. It is important to make an informed decision on November 6.
The debates are my primary focus. Both candidates give a lot of information, but how do you know how much of it to pick out as true? I’ll give an example: in the first debate, Barack Obama shut down Mitt Romney’s tax plan and called it a “5 trillion dollar tax cut.” In response to this, Mr. Romney replied on three different occasions that such a plan was not the case.
How do we know what’s true and what is not? That’s where fact check comes in. Fact checks are places you can go to online and check the factuality of everything the candidates are saying. Factcheck.org is a great place to get the facts on what the two candidates are proclaiming.
So who was right in the first debate about the 5 trillion tax cut? Factcheck.org/2012/10/dubious-denver-debate-declarations/ says that Romney was right after all. There is no 5 trillion dollar tax cut being imposed. This is probably why President Obama felt he had to say there was three times.