Latest Fact-Checks By Tom Tobin

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A made-up quote goes global

March 24, 2008

Obama says America is great, but let's "try to change it."

U.S. is Saudi Arabia of coal

January 25, 2008

"We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."

Romney supported it from the start

January 6, 2008

"I supported the surge when you didn't."

Creative math by an abortion-rights mayor

December 13, 2007

"We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent."

He uncovered a wasteful mess

November 29, 2007

"I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail."

Some bad apples

November 9, 2007

"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."

It’s not as risky as he says

October 26, 2007

"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…

Sometimes walls do work

October 23, 2007

"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."

That’s one way to slice the numbers. There are others.

September 28, 2007

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

By itself, black voter increase does not flip Mississippi — or the South

September 4, 2007

If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, "Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state."

First, but with caveats

August 30, 2007

"Bill Richardson passed the first law in the nation giving National Guard soldiers $400,000 in life insurance."

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