Sometimes I think I vote to the right because I see greater mistruths from the left describing the other side.
The right is more in favor of things like school vouchers for private schools. The left transforms this to be "they want all schools to be private so only the rich can get educated". Oddly, public school teachers have a higher percentage of their own children in private schools than the rest of the general populace.
The right is more in favor of ideas that lean toward opting out of social security. The left describes this as wanting to take away the elderly's money. Not very many things burn me up as hearing some cackly old person's voice on a political ad... "please don't let them nasty republicans take away my social security/medicare/whatever". If you want to see how much our retired people are "suffering", go tour a retirement neighborhood in Pheonix or in Florida. Not a single country in the world does a better job of taking care of so many retired people.
The right is against gun control, so the left describes this as "they want everyone to be able to buy machinguns from a convenience store and carry them everywhere. Oddly, many pro-gun control senators/congressman are know to have ccw's.
College - if costs are getting too high, why are more people in college every year and why are more getting degrees?
Yes, the right takes issues out of context with the left too, it just doesn't seem to be as much. Considering this country has been on a constant trend to the left since forever, I think it is safe to say the left is better at it.