Barack Obama said "people making less than $250,000 would benefit from his plan" then said "if you're a family making less than $200,000, you'll benefit."
John McCain on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 in Hershey, Pa. >>Details
"In April, Sen. McCain came out against helping women earn equal pay for equal work."
Barack Obama on Monday, October 20th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
McCain called for less regulation 21 times just this year.
Barack Obama on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 in North Carolina >>Details
"The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have."
Barack Obama on Sunday, October 19th, 2008 in a TV interview >>Details
Between 40 and 50 percent of tax filers do not owe any income tax.
John McCain on Sunday, October 12th, 2008 in a television interview >>Details
"Obama said he would unilaterally renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement."
John McCain on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 in Hempstead, N.Y. >>Details
A mortgage buyback plan is "my proposal, it's not Sen. Obama's proposal, it's not President Bush's proposal."
John McCain on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details
John McCain "is proposing tax cuts that would give the average Fortune 500 CEO an additional $700,000 in tax cuts."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details
"Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers's home. And they've worked together on various projects in Chicago."
Sarah Palin on Monday, October 6th, 2008 in Clearwater, Fla. >>Details
McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators... that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers.
Barack Obama on Monday, October 6th, 2008 in a Web site >>Details
"John McCain said...in December he was surprised there was a subprime mortgage problem."
Joe Biden on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 in St. Louis >>Details
McCain "said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he . . . wasn't sure whether they were aligned with us."
Barack Obama on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in a debate in Oxford, Miss. >>Details
"He has asked for $932-million of earmark pork-barrel spending, nearly a million dollars for every day that he’s been in the United States Senate."
John McCain on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in in debate in Oxford, Miss. >>Details
"You know, we spent $3-million to study the DNA of bears in Montana."
John McCain on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in in debate in Oxford, Miss. >>Details
Obama says McCain went to Bermuda and "pledged to protect tax breaks for American corporations that hide their profits offshore."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
Barack Obama got more campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "than any other member of Congress, except for the Democratic chairmen of the committee that oversees them."
John McCain on Friday, September 19th, 2008 in Green Bay, Wis. >>Details
“Obama has asked for $932-million in earmarks, literally $1-million for every day that he’s been in Congress.”
John McCain on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 in a speech in Tampa >>Details
Sarah Palin was repeating "Abraham Lincoln's words" in discussing the war in Iraq.
Sarah Palin on Thursday, September 11th, 2008 in Fairbanks, Alaska >>Details
"He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an e-mail."
Barack Obama on Friday, September 12th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
Palin "fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he 'intimidated' her."
Chain e-mail on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 in in an e-mail message >>Details
John McCain "took on the drug industry."
John McCain on Monday, September 8th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
Palin "inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22-million."
Chain e-mail on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
"Gov. Palin ... is somebody who actually doesn't believe that climate change is man-made."
John Kerry on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 in an interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." >>Details
"There's only four senators senior to me ... there's still 44 older than me."
Joe Biden on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in Springfield, Ill. >>Details
As a state senator in Illinois, Obama made sure women got equal pay for equal work.
Michelle Obama on Monday, August 25th, 2008 in her address at the Democratic National Convention. >>Details
"We spent $3-million of your money to study the DNA of bears."
John McCain on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 in Orange County, Calif. >>Details
While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed legislation moving people "from welfare to jobs."
Michelle Obama on Monday, August 25th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed "tax cuts for hard-working families."
Michelle Obama on Monday, August 25th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
"Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act ... the rate of domestic violence went down dramatically."
Barack Obama on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in Springfield, Ill. >>Details
The Bush administration's latest plans for troop withdrawal from Iraq by 2011 are "more or less the same time frame I announced two years ago."
Barack Obama on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 in Chester, Va. >>Details
John McCain has seven houses.
Barack Obama on Monday, August 11th, 2008 in interview by Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod >>Details
McCain, “voted against renewable sources of energy, against biofuels, against solar power, against wind power.... "
Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 in Youngstown, Ohio >>Details
"It (Georgia) was one of the earliest Christian nations. The king of then-Georgia in the third century converted to Christianity."
John McCain on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 in Saddleback Valley Community Church in Orange County, Calif. >>Details
Says Obama replaced the American flag on the tail of his plane with his campaign logo.
Chain e-mail on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 in a widely circulated chain e-mail. >>Details
"Big oil's filling John McCain's campaign with $2-million in contributions."
Barack Obama on Monday, August 4th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
Spending increases, not tax cuts, are the major cause of the federal budget deficit.
John McCain on Monday, July 28th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's Larry King Live >>Details
"Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan."
John McCain on Friday, July 18th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
Obama "hasn't been to Iraq in years."
John McCain on Friday, July 18th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"We've heard talk about curbing our use of fossil fuels in nearly every State of the Union address since the oil embargo of 1973."
Barack Obama on Friday, July 11th, 2008 in a speech in Dayton, Ohio >>Details
"McCain used to buck his party on immigration by fighting for comprehensive reform. . . . But when he was running for his party's nomination, he . . . said that he wouldn't even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 in a speech in Washington, D.C. >>Details
"I investigated Abramoff and people ended up in jail."
John McCain on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 in an appearance on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” >>Details
"The most recent Associated Press poll has Nader-Gonzalez at 6 percent, without any national coverage, against McCain and Obama."
Ralph Nader on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 in an interview with "Democracy Now!," an independent radio program >>Details
"I've always said it's (offshore drilling) up to the states and I still say that."
John McCain on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 in Springfield, Mo. >>Details
Barack Obama "passed laws moving people from welfare to work."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
Barack Obama "cut taxes for working families."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
“Obama has maintained a friendship with a now convicted felon.”
Republican National Committee on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 in a news release >>Details
Obama "wants a windfall profits tax on oil to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 in a speech on energy in Houston >>Details
"George Bush, and a Republican Congress, have presided over a 55 percent increase in the size of domestic government spending in the last seven years."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 in a comment by McCain campaign adviser Carly Fiorina on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" >>Details
"McCain lobbied for (a) $10-million pork project honoring conservative justice."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 in a campaign e-mail to reporters >>Details
"Ronald Reagan met with Gorbachev; Kennedy met with Khruschev; and Nixon met with Mao — and these were folks who have done horrendous damage not only to their own countries but to other countries."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 in an interview on Fox News' America’s Election HQ >>Details
"I had an uncle ... who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps."
Barack Obama on Monday, May 26th, 2008 in a speech in Las Cruces, N.M. >>Details
"Obama himself voted against funding our nation's veterans and troops in the field during a time of war."
John McCain on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in a statement by a spokesman >>Details
Eliminating earmarks "would make barely a drop in the bucket with regard to the national debt, the deficit."
Bob Barr on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in a news conference announcing his Libertarian candidacy in Washington, D.C. >>Details
"It is just a fact that Hamas, apparently the North American spokesperson, is endorsing Senator Obama."
John McCain on Friday, April 25th, 2008 in a media availability in Little Rock, Ark. >>Details
"More people without health care since George Bush took office; more children in poverty since George Bush took office."
Barack Obama on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in a campaign speech in Williamsport, Pa. >>Details
"For what we spend in just one week in Iraq, 800,000 children could get health insurance for an entire year."
Florida Consumer Action Network on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in a press conference in Tampa >>Details
"My friend, we have increased the size of government by some 40 percent just in the last few years."
John McCain on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 in a television interview. >>Details
A gas tax holiday "would at best provide 30 cents a day for three months for a grand total of $28."
Barack Obama on Monday, May 5th, 2008 in a television interview >>Details
The Rev. Wright compared "the United States Marine Corps with Roman legionnaires who were responsible for the death of our Savior."
John McCain on Sunday, April 27th, 2008 in Coral Gables, Fla. >>Details
"Bill Clinton invited him (the Rev. Wright) to the White House when he was having his personal crises."
Barack Obama on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in Philadelphia >>Details
Barack Obama is "the only candidate who doesn’t take a dime from oil company PACs or lobbyists."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
"I'm the product of a mixed marriage that would have been illegal in 12 states when I was born."
Barack Obama on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in an interview with theadvocate.com >>Details
John McCain and George W. Bush want to spend "a trillion dollars in Iraq over the next 10 years."
Campaign to Defend America on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
McCain and Bush are millionaires who are "for tax cuts for millionaires."
Campaign to Defend America on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"We've won twice as many states. We've won a greater share of the popular vote."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on the Today Show. >>Details
"I committed to public financing; (Obama) committed to public financing."
John McCain on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 in a news conference in Columbus, Ohio >>Details
"When we've got CEOs making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year ... then something is wrong."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Houston, Texas >>Details
"We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details
"I have 35 years' experience making change."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details
"I have something in common with my husband. He never carried caucuses either. He lost all of the ones that I've lost."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, February 11th, 2008 in an ABC/Politico interview >>Details
"The last six polls, including this week's Time magazine, show that I beat John McCain by six or seven points."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details
"George Bush sent people to war without body armor."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 in a debate in Los Angeles >>Details
"In her short time in the United States Senate, the senator from New York, Senator Clinton, got $500-million worth of pork barrel projects."
John McCain on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 in a campaign event in Fairfield, Conn. >>Details
John McCain "voted against the Bush tax cuts, both times."
Citizens United Political Victory Fund on Friday, February 1st, 2008 in in a TV ad >>Details
Hillary Clinton agrees with John McCain "by voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
"He told gay organizers in Massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even Ted Kennedy."
John McCain on Monday, January 28th, 2008 in an automated call to voters >>Details
Said he's the only Republican candidate "who's actually turned around a government economy."
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton, Fla. >>Details
Barack Obama's church gave a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan.
Chain e-mail on Friday, January 18th, 2008 in >>Details
"Barack (Obama) has one of his biggest supporters in terms of funding, the Exelon Corporation, which has spent millions of dollars trying to make Yucca Mountain the waste depository."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in Las Vegas >>Details
"And he’s the only candidate who will fight for a national catastrophe fund to reduce insurance rates."
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"And delivered more tax relief than the other Republicans combined."
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"I took on the worst road system in the country, according to Trucker's magazine. When I left, they said it was the most improved road system in the country."
Mike Huckabee on Thursday, January 10th, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details
The church Barack Obama belongs to has a "nonnegotiable commitment to Africa."
Chain e-mail on Sunday, January 6th, 2008 in >>Details
"Mike Huckabee raised taxes on dog groomers!"
Spike the Romney Attack Dog on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 in a mailer from the Romney campaign to Iowans >>Details
"There's not a major bill I know with Hillary's name on it."
Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details
"If you got rid of the income tax today you'd have about as much revenue as we had 10 years ago."
Ron Paul on Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 in a Meet the Press interview >>Details
"Mitt Romney says the next president doesn't need foreign policy experience."
John McCain on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 in a Web ad >>Details
"The fact of the matter is that my colleague from New York, Senator Clinton, there are 50 percent of the American public that say they're not going to vote for her."
Chris Dodd on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a debate in Philadelphia >>Details
"McCain opposes repeal of the death tax."
Mitt Romney on Friday, December 28th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
"One out of every four homeless people on our streets is a veteran."
John Edwards on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details
Mike Huckabee "supported taxpayer-funded scholarships for illegal aliens."
Mitt Romney on Monday, December 10th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
"He's (Romney) the one who said that he would be to the left of Teddy Kennedy on gay rights."
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in MSNBC's "Morning Joe" >>Details
Romney failed to take action against "sanctuary cities" in Massachusetts.
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
"If Sen. Hillary Clinton could enact all of her campaign proposals, taxpayers would be faced with financing more than $777.6-billion in new spending over one White House term."
Republican National Committee on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in Web "Spend-O-Meter" >>Details
"I believe in tax cuts. I believe in being a supply-sider. I cut the income tax I think it was 24 percent. We got 42 percent more revenues."
Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
Huckabee "was one of the highest taxing governors that we had in this country and rivaling Bill Clinton in terms of the Cato ratings."
Fred Thompson on Monday, November 5th, 2007 in an interview on the Fox News Channel. >>Details
"Our children's safety is potentially at risk because nearly half of the apple juice consumed by our children comes from apples grown in China."
John Edwards on Monday, October 29th, 2007 in a speech in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
“Mayor Giuliani’s lawsuit killed the line-item veto.”
Mitt Romney on Saturday, October 6th, 2007 in >>Details
Clinton has "raised the most money from Washington lobbyists ... from the health industry, drug companies, health insurance companies (and) the defense industry."
John Edwards on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details
"I supported tort reform with regard to securities...product liability...interstate commerce."
Fred Thompson on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
“Mitt Romney opposed the gun lobby, even Ronald Reagan."
Log Cabin Republicans on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 in >>Details
"The founders advised non-interventionism."
Ron Paul on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in Orlando >>Details
He received "A" ratings from "every conservative organization that gives ratings."
Tom Tancredo on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
"I've seen (life) from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift ...and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to."
Fred Thompson on Friday, September 7th, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa >>Details
"First, he was in favor of my plan, now he's attacking it."
Joe Biden on Friday, October 12th, 2007 in >>Details
Mitt Romney has "a pro-choice record."
Log Cabin Republicans on Friday, October 19th, 2007 in >>Details
Mitt Romney boasts that he is "proud to be the only major candidate for president to sign the tax pledge. The others have not."
Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 in a radio ad. >>Details
"With the resources it takes to execute just over three months of the Iraq war, we could fully fund the expansion of health care for needy children that Bush vetoed."
Chris Dodd on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 in >>Details
"She stood by our National Guard and Reserve and kept standing till they received health care they deserved."
Hillary Clinton on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details
"Today New Mexico (has) the sixth-fastest growing economy."
Bill Richardson on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in a debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. >>Details
"Bill Richardson is the only major Democratic candidate with a plan to withdraw all American troops from Iraq. All of the other major Democratic candidates support leaving American troops in Iraq indefinitely."
Bill Richardson on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 in >>Details
"And it's going to be difficult for us to do this as long as we're spending $275 million a day on a war that should have never been authorized..."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 in Washington, DC. >>Details
"Sixty-one percent of our active military are currently listed as overweight."
Mike Huckabee on Thursday, August 30th, 2007 in a television interview. >>Details
Half of all personal bankruptcies in America "are caused by medical bills."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
"Took on the Olympics and turned them around"
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details
"Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress."
Ron Paul on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a statement on his campaign Web site. >>Details
“We're spending $1.6 billion for all of Latin America in terms of aid and assistance, a fraction of what we're spending in Iraq, the $500 billion we've spent there"
Chris Dodd on Sunday, September 9th, 2007 in a debate in Miami, Fla. >>Details
"In every single country, she had a majority of the vote -- or more of those who’d already made up their minds."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 in a speech by husband Bill Clinton at a Concord, N.H. rally. >>Details
"We've lost over 5,000 Americans over there in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and plus the civilians killed."
Ron Paul on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H. >>Details
"Congress only funded half the wall" between Mexico and the United States.
Bill Richardson on Sunday, September 9th, 2007 in a debate in Miami, Fla. >>Details
“I built that border fence in San Diego...and it reduced the smuggling of people and drugs...by 90 percent.”
Duncan Hunter on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H. >>Details
"The failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct."
John McCain on Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 in Oklahoma City. >>Details
"In state after state, polls make clear that the American public understands the Kelo ruling is a disaster."
John McCain on Monday, August 6th, 2007 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa >>Details
“Bill Richardson passed the first law in the nation giving National Guard soldiers $400,000 in life insurance.”
Bill Richardson on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a TV ad. >>Details
“I’m the first person who really took up the issue of the war. Four years ago I said that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and, actually... did an analysis which disproved the cause for the war.”
Dennis Kucinich on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 in Washington, DC >>Details
"(McCain) was opposed to ethanol. Now he's for it."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 in Stratham, N.H. >>Details
An estimated 56 million Americans don't have bank accounts.
John Edwards on Thursday, June 21st, 2007 in New York City. >>Details
"Roadside bombs are responsible for 70 percent of casualties in Iraq and these new mine-resistant vehicles can reduce those casualties by two-thirds."
Joe Biden on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 in a news release. >>Details
"I used tax cuts to help create over 80,000 jobs in New Mexico."
Bill Richardson on Thursday, May 10th, 2007 in a TV Ad. >>Details
New Mexico moved "up to" sixth in the nation in job growth.
Bill Richardson on Thursday, May 10th, 2007 in a TV Ad. >>Details
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