The first occurred on the evening of October 9th and the second will occur over the next few days when fact-checkers will pour over the debate transcript and tell us how truthful the candidates were.
The Washington Post's own fact checker assigns one to four Pinocchio noses to determine how truthful political candidates are, with four Pinocchio noses being used to describe outright lies.
In addition, behavioral questions have been shown to elicit truthful answers from candidates, since the answers are based on concrete past experiences.
But it is hard to imagine a candidate so truthful as to say, "Well, Soledad, I reach out for whatever divine help I can get in times of great stress — you know, like asking George Soros for a contribution, or waiting for the returns from Miami-Dade County. Miami-Dade County
In a statement, Garcetti spokesman Jeff Millman said the rival candidate should "run truthful TV ads, because her claim to have found $160 million in waste, fraud and abuse has been discredited by the LA Times, which called it an 'accounting maneuver' and an 'unrealistic' revenue projection".
Trump had the lowest percentage of truthful statements of any recent presidential candidate, according to the fact-checking group PolitiFact.
If that's the case, the assumption is that the candidates have not been truthful about their virginity either.
But despite my fictional counterpart's nonspeaking role, I hope the dramatizations will encourage candidates to be more truthful about their health problems.
If good candidate experience hinges on communication and being truthful, bad candidate experience happens when applicants feel like they're sending their resumes out into a vacuum.
Harland Dorrinson, a strategist who has guided the campaigns of dozens of Democratic candidates, said that the Massachusetts legislator's "recklessly truthful" tirade about banks left him "smacking my head".
