Candidates and False Information

In an article written by Brooks Jackson, Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson, Robert Farely and D'angelo Gore, on December 11, 2011, they discussed on candidates for presidency and either false or misleading information that they had presented to the people. The clear problem in this article is that presidential candidates are feeding us people information that is either not true or is completely misleading which could affect their position in the race. I have learned that people need to look deeper in to each candidates words and not just fall for the big statistics. An example of this can come straight from the article when they discuss about Rick Perry and how he brings up a statistic that he has made over a million jobs in the last 11 years. The side that Mr.Perry is not telling us about is how in that same span of time the country has lost only 879,000 jobs which is less than half the jobs he created. This just shows that he is trying to use big numbers to make people seem like he is so great when he is just trying to make things seem worse then they actually are to make himself look good. If each candidate would bring up the good and the bad of themselves, the people would have a much easier time deciding who to vote for.http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2011-12-11/iowa-republican-debate-fact-check/51810372/1