You Can Lead a Voter to Water but Can You Make Him Drink?

All the political rhetoric during election cycles remind me of an old saying, “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.” If that horse could think and vote he certainly could be made to drink. It is done every day in advertising. Although false advertising of products is illegal it is not illegal in political elections. Voters often drink from the trough of false claims and accusations and they draw conclusions that are not based on facts but emotional responses. What to do? If only there was a trustworthy website to find whether a political claim is false or true. There is such a a site. It is http://www.factcheck.org/. This website was created for the express purpose of debunking false claims regardless of political leanings.

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