It was the picture that shattered all of our
records.
The idea behind it is simple enough. Take the
politicians who have been active enough on the national stage to get
fact-checked by PolitiFact at least 50 times since the start of 2007. Look at
all of their ratings and tally them. Place the tally in the chart. Not
scientific by any means, but interesting. (Update 7/21/2016: Trump's
"truthiness" rating, to use Nolan's criterion in his comment of
"true" + "mostly true," currently sits at 11%, which is a
small gain from the ~7% when the chart was made, but still well behind Michele
Bachmann. Hillary's "truthiness" is at 51%, which is largely
unchanged. Again, this chart is not scientific and the post is more about the
response to the chart than the chart itself.)
