Don't get snowed by all of the political rhetoric. The Iowa Caucus is just hours away and the New Hampshire first in the nation primary takes place on January 8th.
In the past few days, not only has New Hampshire had record breaking accumulations of snow for December, but the New Year's day storm brought an avalanche of political advertisements, brochures, door knockers, phone calls and emails.
I was beginning to wonder how to sort the Fact from the Fiction. I came across a couple of web sites I found both informative and entertaining. They certainly helped me discern who was giving the voters a snow job and who was telling the truth!
One site is called FactCheck.org. This is a non partisan site which is operated by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. To the best of my knowledge, they do not take contributions from those who would exert undue influence such as labor unions, lobbying organizations, political parties etc. You can find a lot of great information on this site.
The other site I found is called PolitiFact. PolitifactTM has a wealth of information along with the Truth-o-meter TM which gives you an indication of the truthfulness of a given statement or purported "fact". This site is a joint project of the St. Petersburg Times of Florida and Congressional Quality.
One of the most important freedoms we have in this Country is the Freedom to Vote. Hopefully, these sites will help you to get the facts you need to make an informed voting decision and cut through all the snow!
Know how each candidate stands on the issues from the budget, climate change, immigration, foreign policy, trade to taxes!
An informed electorate is cornerstone of our great democracy! Become informed and and be sure to vote.
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