After Tuesday’s vice presidential debate between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz, PolitiFact was at it again, rating Vance false 91 percent of the time and Walz false 29 percent of the time. While defenders of professional fact-checking may say, “Aha, that proves Vance lies more,” there were problems with PolitiFact’s assessments of both candidates.
The PolitiFact team assigned five false, five mostly-false, and one half-true rating to Vance, or ten on the wrong side of the truth-o-meter and one in the middle. By contrast, Walz received one false, one mostly false, two mostly true, and three true ratings. That is two in the red and five in the green.
As for the fact-checks themselves, PolitiFact ran into some issues. For example, Vance claimed, “There’s a Federal Reserve study … that really drills down on the connection between increased…
