Obama flip flop on oil drilling? Not so fast.

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President Barack Obama announced today that he will open up new coastal areas to oil production. So we put him on the Flip-O-Meter.

We reviewed all the evidence of the 2008 campaign and concluded that he hadn’t changed position, so we rated him No Flip. Surprised? Read the evidence in our full report.

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