Latest Fact Checks By Tom Tobin

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A made-up quote goes global

By Tom Tobin
March 24, 2008
Obama says America is great, but let's "try to change it."
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U.S. is Saudi Arabia of coal

By Tom Tobin
January 25, 2008
"We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."
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Romney supported it from the start

By Tom Tobin
January 6, 2008
"I supported the surge when you didn't."
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Creative math by an abortion-rights mayor

By Bill Adair , Tom Tobin
December 13, 2007
"We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent."
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He uncovered a wasteful mess

By Tom Tobin
November 29, 2007
"I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail."
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Some bad apples

By Tom Tobin
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."
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It’s not as risky as he says

By Tom Tobin
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…
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Sometimes walls do work

By Tom Tobin
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."
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That’s one way to slice the numbers. There are others.

By Tom Tobin
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."
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By itself, black voter increase does not flip Mississippi — or the South

By Tom Tobin
September 4, 2007
If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, "Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state."
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First, but with caveats

By Tom Tobin
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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