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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 23, 2008 in 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 in 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
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
stated on August 25, 2008 in 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 in 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
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 16, 2008 in 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 23, 2008 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 8, 2008 in a speech in Washington, D.C.:
"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."
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By Adriel Bettelheim • July 16, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 8, 2008 in an appearance on Fox News' "Fox and Friends":
"I investigated Abramoff and people ended up in jail."
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By Adriel Bettelheim • July 15, 2008
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader
stated on June 18, 2008 in an interview with "Democracy Now!," an independent radio program:
"The most recent Associated Press poll has Nader-Gonzalez at 6 percent, without any national coverage, against McCain and Obama."
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By Alexander Lane • June 30, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 18, 2008 in Springfield, Mo.:
"I've always said it's (offshore drilling) up to the states and I still say that."
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By Robert Farley • June 26, 2008
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