So rampant were the equivocations, untruths, and outright lies from both camps that many media outlets and non-partisan groups maintained running lists of factual distortions. One of the best known, FactCheck.org, an initiative of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, confessed that this campaign had kept them exceptionally busy.
而那些模棱两可，不实言论以及彻底的谎言在两大竞选阵营中是如此泛滥，以致许多媒体和无党派团体都开始制作一个记录扭曲事实言论的列表。其中一个最为著名的就是由宾夕法尼亚大学安嫩伯格公共政策中心创立的FactCheck.org，其工作人员承认是大选让他们的工作变得极端忙碌。