Statements we say are Half-True
Obama
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Measures in Barack Obama's health plan could "lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details


Obama
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Obama "changed the rules in Washington. Gone are the free gifts from lobbyists. Gone are the fancy airplane rides for nothing."

Barack Obama on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 in a statement by Sen. Claire McCaskill in a TV ad. >>Details


McCain
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"We are within the margin of error."

John McCain on Friday, October 31st, 2008 in a TV interview >>Details


Biden
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"One percent of the American people make over 21 percent of all the income in America. That wasn’t the way before George Bush became president."

Joe Biden on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 in a TV interview >>Details


McCain
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If parents "don't have health insurance that Senator Obama wants them to have (for their children), they will be fined."

John McCain on Sunday, October 26th, 2008 in Waterloo, Iowa >>Details


Republican Party of Florida
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Barack Obama will "raise Social Security taxes."

Republican Party of Florida on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 in campaign direct mail >>Details


Obama
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The accuracy of the Obama tax calculator

Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 in campaign Web site >>Details


McCain
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Barack Obama was "a trial attorney for ACORN."

John McCain on Friday, October 10th, 2008 in a memo on campaign Web site >>Details


McCain
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"He voted twice for a budget resolution that increases the taxes on individuals making $42,000 a year."

John McCain on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 in a debate in Hempstead, N.Y. >>Details


McCain
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On the economic troubles of 2008, "really the match that lit this fire was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."

John McCain on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details


McCain
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"The Democrats in the Senate and some members of Congress defended what Fannie and Freddie were doing. They resisted any change."

John McCain on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details


Obama
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On the economic crisis, "the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details


Obama
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"I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke [in March 2007], and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did anything about it."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details


McCain
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Obama "voted for ... $3-million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago."

John McCain on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details


McCain
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"I want to give every American a $5,000 refundable tax credit."

John McCain on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details


Palin
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"As mayor, every year I was in office I did reduce taxes."

Sarah Palin on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 in a debate in St. Louis >>Details


Republican National Committee
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"Under Barack Obama's plan, the government would spend $1-trillion more."

Republican National Committee on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details


Obama
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"There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world."

Barack Obama on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in a debate in Oxford, Miss. >>Details


McCain
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"John McCain fought to rein in Fannie and Freddie...but Democrats blocked the reforms."

John McCain on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 in an advertisement >>Details


Obama
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"My plan offers three times as much tax relief to the middle class as Senator McCain's."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details


Obama
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John McCain "has threatened extinction for North Korea and sung songs about bombing Iran."

Barack Obama on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in Oxford, Miss. >>Details


Obama
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Henry Kissinger "said that we should meet with Iran — guess what — without precondition."

Barack Obama on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in the first presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. >>Details


Obama
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Under Obama's tax plan, "95 percent of you will get a tax cut."

Barack Obama on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in Oxford, Miss. >>Details


Obama
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John McCain would "reduce oversight of health insurance."

Barack Obama on Monday, September 22nd, 2008 in a TV ad. >>Details


Bloggers
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Sarah Palin endorsed a Wasilla policy that charged sexual assault victims for their "rape kits."

Bloggers on Friday, September 12th, 2008 in blog postings on many Web sites. >>Details


Obama
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McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm is "the architect of some of the deregulation in Washington that helped cause the mess on Wall Street."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 in Elko, Nev. >>Details


Palin
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"I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history."

Sarah Palin on Saturday, September 6th, 2008 in a radio address >>Details


Biden
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"When George Bush said we shouldn’t investigate why the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina was so incompetent, John McCain stood with him."

Joe Biden on Monday, September 15th, 2008 in St. Clair Shores, Mich. >>Details


Chain e-mail
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"While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed."

Chain e-mail on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details


Biden
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John McCain's tax plan will give no reduction "for 100-million American families."

Joe Biden on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Obama
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"The average American family" saw income rise $7,500 under Bill Clinton and decline $2,000 under George Bush.

Barack Obama on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


McCain
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"I will keep taxes low and cut them where I can. My opponent will raise them."

John McCain on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details


McCain
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"Senator Obama thinks we can achieve energy independence without more drilling and without more nuclear power."

John McCain on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 in >>Details


Palin
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"I told the Congress 'thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere."

Sarah Palin on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 in a speech at the Republican Nationention in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details


Palin
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Barack Obama supports plans to raise "income taxes ... payroll taxes."

Sarah Palin on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 in a speech in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details


Palin
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Drilling in ANWR would have minimal impact, covering only "2,000 out of 20-million acres."

Sarah Palin on Friday, August 29th, 2008 in an interview on CNBC >>Details


Biden
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(McCain) says "we can't have ... timelines to draw down our troops from Iraq."

Joe Biden on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Warner
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The U.S. energy policy is to "borrow money from China to buy oil from countries that don't like us."

Mark Warner on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Pelosi
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"Whether in Illinois or Washington, Barack Obama has bridged partisanship to bring about significant reform."

Nancy Pelosi on Monday, August 25th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Obama
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"Joe Biden brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass the 1994 crime bill, putting 100,000 cops on the streets and starting an eight-year drop in crime across the country."

Barack Obama on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in >>Details


Biden
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Says McCain "supported George Bush's policies 95 percent of the time."

Joe Biden on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in a rally in Springfield, Ill. >>Details


Obama
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McCain's attacks on Obama are 'not true,' 'false,' 'baloney,' according to media outlets.

Barack Obama on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details


McCain
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"First, he (Obama) opposed the surge. Then he confidently predicted that it would fail. Then he tried to prevent funding for the troops who carried out the surge."

John McCain on Monday, August 11th, 2008 in a speech in Las Vegas >>Details


McCain
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In the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, offshore drilling "did not cause any real difficulties."

John McCain on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 in Albuquerque, N.M. >>Details


Let Freedom Ring
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Says Obama flip-flopped on banning handguns.

Let Freedom Ring on Thursday, July 24th, 2008 in a TV ad airing on cable networks such as Fox and MTV. >>Details


McCain
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"We now have a pro-American president in France, which shows if you live long enough, anything can happen in this world."

John McCain on Monday, July 21st, 2008 in a speech in South Portland, Maine >>Details


McCain
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Obama "voted against funding our troops."

John McCain on Friday, July 18th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details


McCain
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Obama "voted for and even sponsored amendments that were intended to kill the (immigration overhaul) legislation."

John McCain on Monday, July 14th, 2008 in a speech in San Diego >>Details


McCain
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"Barack Obama said he would debate 'anywhere, anytime' but has rejected joint town hall meetings."

John McCain on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 in a news release >>Details


McCain
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"Throughout his time in elected office, Barack Obama has taken multiple positions on banning handguns and the D.C. handgun ban."

John McCain on Saturday, July 26th, 2008 in >>Details


Republican National Committee
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Says Obama opposes lower gas taxes, nuclear power, new offshore drilling and doesn't have "new solutions" to the energy crisis.

Republican National Committee on Sunday, July 6th, 2008 in a TV ad. >>Details


Obama
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Obama says his bill "reduced welfare rolls nearly 80 percent."

Barack Obama on Monday, June 30th, 2008 in a TV ad. >>Details


Obama
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John McCain "opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork."

Barack Obama on Saturday, June 21st, 2008 in remarks to U.S. Conference of Mayors >>Details


Obama
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Barack Obama "extended health care for wounded troops who’d been neglected."

Barack Obama on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details


McCain
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We are "borrowing Saudi money for Saudi oil" with the result being "dependency and debt."

John McCain on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 in Houston, Texas >>Details


Obama
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We're borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia "to finance this war" in Iraq.

Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in Cape Girardeau, Mo. >>Details


The Democratic National Committee
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John McCain says he never supported the privatization of Social Security, even though video shows he did.

The Democratic National Committee on Friday, June 13th, 2008 in a Web ad >>Details


McCain
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"Casualties and deaths are at (their) lowest point since literally the beginning" of the war.

John McCain on Monday, June 2nd, 2008 in a town hall meeting in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details


Chain e-mail
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Obama's wife said her goal in life was to put the black community "first and foremost."

Chain e-mail on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details


Obama
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A gas tax holiday is a gimmick that "every economist says will just go into the pockets of the oil companies."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in a Q&A in Cape Girardeau, Mo. >>Details


MoveOn.org
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McCain "voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban."

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail >>Details


MoveOn.org
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"The pastor McCain calls his 'spiritual guide,' Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a 'false religion.' "

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details


Clinton
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"If West Virginia had voted for our Democratic nominee in 2000 and 2004, we wouldn't have had to put up with George Bush for the last 7½ years."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in Logan, W. Va. >>Details


McCain
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"We spend a staggering amount of money on health care — over $2-trillion and almost twice as much as any other country per person."

John McCain on Monday, April 28th, 2008 in a campaign stop at Miami children’s hospital >>Details


Obama
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"If Senator Clinton or John McCain had stood up in previous years for increases in fuel efficiency standards . . . then we would not be in this same situation in the first place."

Barack Obama on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 in an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press. >>Details


McCain
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Barack Obama "wants to nearly double the capital gains tax" increasing taxes on "mutual funds, 401(k)s" for "policemen, firemen, nurses."

John McCain on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 in in an interview on "This Week." >>Details


The Democratic National Committee
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"McCain has voted repeatedly at least six times against funding for global HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB fund, once as one of only 14 senators."

The Democratic National Committee on Monday, April 28th, 2008 in a news release. >>Details


Obama
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Hillary Clinton is "willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance."

Barack Obama on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details


Obama
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"Hillary Clinton supported NAFTA and permanent China trade. Pennsylvania lost thousands of jobs."

Barack Obama on Thursday, April 17th, 2008 in a mailer to Pennsylvania voters >>Details


Clinton
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"Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill that put $6-billion in the pocket of big oil."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 in a TV ad airing in Pennsylvania. >>Details


Obama
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Barack Obama's network of small donors constitutes a "parallel public financing system."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details


Obama
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"He took on special interests and won, passing the toughest ethics law yet."

Barack Obama on Monday, April 14th, 2008 in a television ad. >>Details


Clinton
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"I did very well with young people in Ohio, Massachusetts, California."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 in a news conference in Greensburg, Pa. >>Details


MoveOn.org
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"He positions himself as pro environment, but he scored a zero — yes, zero — from the League of Conservation Voters last year."

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details


Clinton
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McCain's "plan for the economy is to extend George Bush’s tax cuts for billionaires and give a $100-billion additional corporate tax cut."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 in Philadelphia. >>Details


Clinton
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"I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning >>Details


Clinton
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"I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning. >>Details


Republican National Committee
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"Obama's liberal fiscal agenda: Over $874-billion in new spending."

Republican National Committee on Friday, February 29th, 2008 in a graphic on the RNC website. >>Details


Obama
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A mailer from the Obama campaign "accurately indicates" that Hillary Clinton would "force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details


Clinton
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Barack Obama said in 2004 "that he basically agreed with the way George Bush was conducting the war."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details


Clinton
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"I want to freeze interest rates for five years."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 in Los Angeles, Calif. >>Details


The Democratic National Committee
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The DNC says McCain flip-flopped on whether the Iraq War would be easy.

The Democratic National Committee on Thursday, February 14th, 2008 in a Web video. >>Details


Clinton
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"On issue after issue that really were hard to explain or understand, you voted present . . . And anytime anyone raises that, there's always some kind of explanation."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details


McCain
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"(Romney's) record was that he raised taxes by $730-million."

John McCain on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in a debate in Simi Valley, Calif. >>Details


Huckabee
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"Let's not blame President Bush for all of this. We've got a Congress who sat around on their hands and done nothing but spend a lot of money ... leaving us $9-trillion in debt that we're passing on to our grandchildren."

Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in a debate in Simi Valley, Calif. >>Details


McCain
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Hillary Clinton wants to "wave the white flag of surrender and set a date for withdrawal."

John McCain on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton. >>Details


Huckabee
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"The average American is working through the month of May just to pay off the government."

Mike Huckabee on Friday, January 25th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton. >>Details


Obama
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"But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote 'paid tribute' to Ronald Reagan's economic and foreign policy."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 in a radio ad in South Carolina >>Details


Giuliani
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"Bill Clinton's peace dividend . . . cut the military 25 and 30 percent."

Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a Republican debate in Boca Raton. >>Details


Clinton
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The Bush administration has "the Pentagon trying to take away the signing bonuses when a soldier gets wounded and ends up in the hospital, something that I'm working with a Republican senator to try to make sure never can happen again."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details


McCain
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"Congress just passed another huge, pork-filled spending bill. The Democrats allowed less than a day to read all 3,400 pages and stuffed it with nearly 10,000 earmarks costing about $10-billion dollars."

John McCain on Saturday, January 12th, 2008 in a speech to the Americans for Prosperity Michigan summit in Livonia, Mich. >>Details


Obama
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Says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls.

Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details


Edwards
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"I believe, Senator Clinton, you've raised more money from those people (the oil and gas industry) than any candidate, Democrat or Republican."

John Edwards on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in Las Vegas >>Details


Clinton
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Barack Obama "said in 2004 there was no difference between (Obama) and George Bush on the war."

Bill Clinton on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 in Dartmouth, N.H. >>Details


Obama
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"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."

Barack Obama on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Clinton
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“You said you would vote against the Patriot Act, then you came to the Senate, you voted for it.”

Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Giuliani
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"Bill Clinton cut the military drastically."

Rudy Giuliani on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Huckabee
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"...some of those (tax increases) were either court-ordered, or they were voted on by the people and approved by the people for (such) things as roads."

Mike Huckabee on Sunday, December 30th, 2007 in a TV interview on NBC. >>Details


Thompson
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"He's a good man but he's a pro-life liberal. He's right on the pro-life part, but he's a liberal."

Fred Thompson on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 in a Nashville radio interview. >>Details


Huckabee
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Says he has "the most impressive education record" of the Republican candidates.

Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in a debate in Des Moines, Iowa >>Details


Club for Growth
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"As governor, Mike Huckabee supported higher income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, grocery taxes, tobacco taxes, beer taxes, Internet taxes, nursing home bed taxes."

Club for Growth on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details


Romney
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"I'm prolife. I'm not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush. And I'm proud to be prolife."

Mitt Romney on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa >>Details


Clinton
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"Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, November 19th, 2007 in Knoxville, Iowa >>Details


Romney
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Huckabee supported "a tuition break to the children of illegals that are here illegally when citizens are having to pay a higher rate."

Mitt Romney on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 in an interview >>Details


Clinton
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Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15-million Americans out.”

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. >>Details


Huckabee
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"Fred's never had a 100 percent record on right-to-life in his Senate career. The records reflect that. And he doesn't support the human life amendment, which is most amazing because that's been a part of the Republican platform since 1980."

Mike Huckabee on Sunday, November 18th, 2007 in an appearance on Fox News Sunday >>Details


Giuliani
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"Murder went up" when Romney was governor. "Robbery went up. Violent crimes went up.”

Rudy Giuliani on Saturday, November 24th, 2007 in a newspaper interview. >>Details


Giuliani
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"The $2.3-billion budget deficit I inherited when I came into office became a $2.9-billion surplus."

Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, July 1st, 2007 in “Innovators in Action” magazine >>Details


Clinton
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"Americans spend 100-million hours a year filling out these forms (FAFSA). That is the equivalent of 55,500 full-time jobs."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 in Plymouth, N.H. >>Details


Giuliani
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"America never made up for the gutting of the intelligence services that Bill Clinton did. I think those are (former CIA director George) Tenet’s words ... that Bill Clinton gutted American intelligence."

Rudy Giuliani on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in a television interview. >>Details


Huckabee
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"As governor of Arkansas, I cut taxes and fees almost 100 times, saving the taxpayers almost $380-million. I left a surplus of nearly $850-million."

Mike Huckabee on Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 in a news release. >>Details


Clinton
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"My husband has not withheld a single document."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, November 4th, 2007 in Clinton, Iowa >>Details


Romney
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"John McCain is right on that one. The line-item veto is the best tool the president has to rein in excessive spending."

Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in an interview on CNBC. >>Details


McCain
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"Our tax code is so complicated it extracts $140 billion in extra tax preparation costs every year - one thousand dollars for every American family."

John McCain on Friday, September 28th, 2007 in a speech to the Hispanic Business Expo in Detroit. >>Details


Tancredo
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"There was a report that came out from the FBI – a warning, not a report ... saying that, in fact, al-Qaida was planning to attack malls during the Christmas holidays."

Tom Tancredo on Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 in an interview on CNN. >>Details


Richardson
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"I've got the most international experience here."

Bill Richardson on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details


Obama
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"I'm the only person on this stage who has worked actively just last year passing, along with Russ Feingold, some of the toughest ethics reform since Watergate."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details


Clinton
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Sen. Obama "made the very argument he is now criticizing back in November 2006."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 25th, 2007 in >>Details


Obama
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Obama spokesman Bill Burton says Clinton gave Bush "a blank check on a critical foreign policy issue."

Barack Obama on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in >>Details


Richardson
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"Going to public financing really disadvantages Democrats because you’re not able to raise funds between the day you win the primaries and the time you’re officially nominated.”

Bill Richardson on Friday, October 5th, 2007 in an interview on CNN >>Details


Richardson
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"Fences have not worked. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall. That's not good among peoples, especially friends like the United States and Mexico."

Bill Richardson on Friday, October 5th, 2007 in an interview on CNN. >>Details


Romney
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President Clinton "reduced the scale of our military dramatically."

Mitt Romney on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details


Biden
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"First, he said he would take all of our troops out in six months, and now he acknowledges it would take a year."

Joe Biden on Friday, October 12th, 2007 in >>Details


Edwards
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"John Edwards never -- has ever from the beginning of his political career has never taken PAC money or the money of Washington lobbyists. Ever." -Joe Trippi, senior campaign adviser

John Edwards on Thursday, September 20th, 2007 in a television interview. >>Details


McCain
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"Earmarked dollars have doubled just since 2000, and more than tripled in the last 10 years."

John McCain on Monday, October 8th, 2007 in a campaign Web site. >>Details


Giuliani
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"I cut taxes 23 times when I was mayor of New York City."

Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in a debate in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details


McCain
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"A lot of people don't know that 50,000 Americans now make their living off eBay."

John McCain on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details


Edwards
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Rural schools "face the highest dropout rates, the lowest college enrollment rates, have the lowest average teacher salaries..."

John Edwards on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details


Clinton
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"Hillary stood up for universal health care when almost no one else would, and kept standing till 6-million kids had coverage."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details


Romney
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“I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage."

Mitt Romney on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC >>Details


Romney
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"It doesn't make sense to me to send $1-billion a day out of our country. We can be energy independent and should be."

Mitt Romney on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 in Florida. >>Details


Giuliani
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"When I was mayor of New York City, I encouraged adoptions. Adoptions went up 65-70 percent. Abortions went down 16 percent."

Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 in >>Details


Romney
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"Mayor Giuliani made New York City what's known as a 'sanctuary city,' where illegal aliens were allowed to come. And he instructed the leaders of the city not to enforce the law, not to enforce immigration law."

Mitt Romney on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 in a campaign event carried on CNN. >>Details


Romney
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"The Republican governor who stood up and cut spending instead of raising taxes."

Mitt Romney on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details


Gravel
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"21-million Americans could have a four-year college scholarship for the money we've squandered in Iraq. 7.6-million teachers could have been hired last year if we weren’t squandering this money."

Mike Gravel on Thursday, June 28th, 2007 in Washington, DC. >>Details


Clinton
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Her health care plan will cost $110-billion in the first year, which can be paid for with savings.

Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details


Kucinich
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"Our whole food system in this country...most of it is genetically engineered. And (there is) no testing for the health consequences of this food."

Dennis Kucinich on Monday, August 27th, 2007 in a forum on cancer organized by Lance Armstrong. >>Details


Obama
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"During his tenure in Washington and in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has accumulated a record of bipartisan success."

Barack Obama on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 in the campaign's website. >>Details


Biden
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"Joe Biden is the only candidate with a plan to get us out of Iraq and keep us out."

Joe Biden on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details


Dodd
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“John Kerry was at 4 percent in the polls in December of 2003...and he ended up becoming the nominee of the party.”

Chris Dodd on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 in an interview on CNN's The Situation Room >>Details


Kucinich
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"When NAFTA was passed, there was an acceleration of immigration from Mexico because people were in search of jobs."

Dennis Kucinich on Sunday, September 9th, 2007 in a debate in Miami, Fla. >>Details


Thompson
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We live in "a time of historically low violent crime rates and historically high gun ownership rates nationally."

Fred Thompson on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 in article on his campaign Web site >>Details


Romney
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"(McCain) said he was opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade. Now he's for overturning Roe v. Wade."

Mitt Romney on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 in Stratham, N.H. >>Details


Republican National Committee
Half-True
Barack Obama supported keeping troops in Iraq, but now he wants a "precipitous withdrawal" regardless of "conditions on the ground" or "consequences of a defeat for the United States," an RNC radio ad.

Republican National Committee on Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 in a radio ad. >>Details


Republican National Committee
Half-True
Hillary Clinton was against setting a deadline for withdrawal, but now she wants a "precipitous withdrawal" regardless of "conditions on the ground" or "consequences of a defeat for the United States," an RNC radio ad.

Republican National Committee on Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 in a radio ad. >>Details


Thompson
Half-True
"... study after study has shown that the death penalty deters murders."

Fred Thompson on Monday, August 20th, 2007 in an ABC radio commentary. >>Details


Obama
Half-True
"He's leading by example, refusing contributions from PACs and Washington lobbyists."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 in a TV ad. >>Details


Dodd
Half-True
"Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have changed their positions (on the Iraq war withdrawal) to follow Chris Dodd."

Chris Dodd on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 in a TV ad. >>Details


Giuliani
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“Democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster. It looks like they’re going to raise taxes anywhere between 20 to 30 percent.”

Rudy Giuliani on Monday, July 30th, 2007 in a speech in Laconia, New Hampshire. >>Details


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