I read a resent article by Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee concerning the sixth Democratic presidential debate between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. The article focuses on the some of the so called "facts" Sanders and Clinton argued during the debate.
The article has chosen a few statements from each candidate and then depicts the sources and statistics they use to back their claim up. To start off, Bernie Sanders seems to make all his statements towards helping the middle class and getting the justice they deserve. As much as I would like for his claims to fix these problems to be true, they are just not reliable. The authors of this article found that every use of statistics Sanders used was either unreliable or out of date. Hillary Clinton on the other hand, decided to take a much more aggressive approach and focus on the down falls of Sanders. She was said to have "pushed" some of the content a little too far, but most of her facts and sources were reliable.
I think this article is worth reading because we are so close to having to make our vote for president and we deserve to see the truth behind each candidate we may or may not support. It is critical for voters to vote on pure facts rather than old data and information that has been stretched out of context. I think there should be an article like this on all presidential debates so that everyone will have equal knowledge behind what the candidates are actually saying.
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