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Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 31, 2008 in an e-mail message
Palin "fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he 'intimidated' her."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 8, 2008 a TV ad
John McCain "took on the drug industry."
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By Adriel Bettelheim • September 9, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 31, 2008 a chain e-mail
Palin "inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22-million."
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By Robert Farley • September 9, 2008
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on August 31, 2008 an interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."
"Gov. Palin ... is somebody who actually doesn't believe that climate change is man-made."
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By Keith Perine • September 3, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 23, 2008 Springfield, Ill.
"There's only four senators senior to me ... there's still 44 older than me."
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By Kathryn A. Wolfe • August 27, 2008
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
stated on August 25, 2008 her address at the Democratic National Convention.
As a state senator in Illinois, Obama made sure women got equal pay for equal work.
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By Richard Rubin • August 26, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 16, 2008 Orange County, Calif.
"We spent $3-million of your money to study the DNA of bears."
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By Kathryn A. Wolfe • August 25, 2008
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
stated on August 25, 2008 Denver
While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed legislation moving people "from welfare to jobs."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 25, 2008
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
stated on August 25, 2008 Denver
While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed "tax cuts for hard-working families."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 23, 2008 Springfield, Ill.
"Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act ... the rate of domestic violence went down dramatically."
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By Richard Rubin • August 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 21, 2008 Chester, Va.
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."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2008 interview by Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod
John McCain has seven houses.
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By Stephanie Garry • August 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 5, 2008 Youngstown, Ohio
McCain, "voted against renewable sources of energy, against biofuels, against solar power, against wind power.... "
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By Seth Stern • August 22, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 16, 2008 Saddleback Valley Community Church in Orange County, Calif.
"It (Georgia) was one of the earliest Christian nations. The king of then-Georgia in the third century converted to Christianity."
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By Alexander Lane • August 19, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 12, 2008 a widely circulated chain e-mail.
Says Obama replaced the American flag on the tail of his plane with his campaign logo.
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By Bill Adair • August 15, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 4, 2008 a TV ad
"Big oil's filling John McCain's campaign with $2-million in contributions."
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By Alexander Lane • August 6, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 28, 2008 an interview on CNN's Larry King Live
Spending increases, not tax cuts, are the major cause of the federal budget deficit.
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By Richard Rubin • August 6, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 18, 2008 a television ad
"Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 21, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 18, 2008 a television ad
Obama "hasn't been to Iraq in years."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 21, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2008 a speech in Dayton, Ohio
"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."
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By Alexander Lane • July 18, 2008
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