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Election night in the Rockaways. (via @KateNocera)
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Everything you need to know about Election Day
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The Reuters Elections 2012 portal has relaunched just in time for Wednesday evening’s presidential debate. View campaign ads, the latest polling figures, a look back at how we voted over the past few decades, opinion and analysis and the latest news from the campaign trail.
Tonight’s Presidential Debate will be live blogged on the portalREUTERS ELECTIONS: The latest news and analysis from Reuters.com
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Great Biden photo or greatest Biden photo?
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Did Obama’s speech play fast and loose with the facts?
A fact check shows that most of the references in President Obama’s acceptance speech were accurate. But there were a few caveats.
Obama took out of context a statement by Romney about the end of the Iraq war, and while Obama sidestepped discussion of his mother’s fight with insurance companies over her cancer coverage - an issue that tripped him up with fact checkers earlier this year - Biden resurrected the subject.
Read on for a full fact check of the issues Obama mentioned in his speech.
Photo: President Barack Obama arrives on stage to address the final session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina September 6, 2012. REUTERS/Eric Thayer
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Fact checking Bill Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention
Former President Bill Clinton’s stem-winding nomination speech was a fact-checker’s nightmare: lots of effort required to run down his many statistics and factual claims, producing little for us to write about.
Republicans will find plenty of Clinton’s scorching opinions objectionable. But with few exceptions, we found his stats checked out.
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WATCH LIVE NOW: Reuters TV Convention Lunch Break
In today’s installment of Reuters TV’s Convention Lunch Break, live from the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, Breakingviews columnist Jeffrey Goldfarb and The Hill deputy editor Bob Cusack interview Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and actor Richard Schiff from NBC Drama “The West Wing” -
