The 2014 Lie of the Year Finalists: Vote in the PolitiFact Readers' Poll
We announce the 10 finalists for Lie of the Year from PolitiFact and PunditFact, and we invite you to cast your ballot in our Readers' Poll.
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He gets the general trend right
The words were Photoshopped
Depends on which measure you use
If anything, he could be overestimating
Want to join the Army? Think before you ink!
"Too many" tattoos "on visible body parts" keep some applicants out of the military.
— PolitiFact Florida
No requirements on data collection
Overlooks a half-dozen presidential events
Immigrants have done well but not that well
Immigrants "have captured all of the nearly 9 million jobs created since 2000."
— PunditFact
Claim overstates the impact
Depends on the measure
The poorest counties in the U.S. are in Appalachia and "happen to be more than 90 percent white."
— PolitiFact Virginia
On taxin' and spendin', advantage Wisconsin
But Obama's action is more sweeping
"Every president since Eisenhower has taken executive action to address immigration issues."
— PolitiFact Virginia
Strong legislature, weak governor
Rhode Island's legislature is "the strongest in the country."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island
Right on both counts
Wisconsin is below the national average in wage growth and job growth.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin
Evidence lacking
Austin is "burdened by the fastest-growing tax increases of any major city in the nation."
— PolitiFact Texas
It's actually lower
"Our median income here in Providence is the same as the median income in Mississippi."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island
A statistic that doesn't exist
"The conviction rate is almost exactly the same" for whites and blacks who commit murder.
— PunditFact
Whites tend to kill whites as well
Numbers are right, but comparison imperfect
