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It’s been a wild and woolly year in Virginia politics.

We witnessed the fall of then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and the near-ouster of Sen. Mark R. Warner, races that provided rich fodder for our fact-checkers. We delved into budget impasses, Medicaid expansion, the Affordable Care Act and the Keystone pipeline. We even checked a claim about origami condoms.

Here are the five most popular Truth-O-Meters published in 2014 as measured by the number of page views the stories received on PolitiFactVirginia.com.

1. State Sen. George L. Barker: Uncompensated care has “gone down by 30 percent just in the first few months” of Medicaid expansions in the states that adopted it.

Barker, D-Fairfax, argued in July for Medicaid expansion. He said, “Those states who have adopted Medicaid expansion, and half of the states have — what they have seen just in the first few months of this calendar year, 2014 — is a reduction in uncompensated care. That means people who show up at the hospital, show up at the emergency department, are uninsured and can’t pay anything — charity care that’s provided by the hospital — that’s gone down by 30 percent just in the first few months.”