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Campaign to Defend America
Campaign to Defend America
stated on March 5, 2008 in a television ad:
John McCain and George W. Bush want to spend "a trillion dollars in Iraq over the next 10 years."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 17, 2008
Campaign to Defend America
Campaign to Defend America
stated on March 5, 2008 in a television ad:
McCain and Bush are millionaires who are "for tax cuts for millionaires."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 17, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 5, 2008 in an interview on the Today Show.:
"We've won twice as many states. We've won a greater share of the popular vote."
Mostly True
By Bill Adair • March 10, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 20, 2008 in a news conference in Columbus, Ohio:
"I committed to public financing; (Obama) committed to public financing."
Mostly True
By Amy Hollyfield • March 3, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 19, 2008 in a campaign rally in Houston, Texas:
"When we've got CEOs making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year ... then something is wrong."
Mostly True
By Amy Hollyfield • February 28, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 21, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas.:
"We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • February 22, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 20, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.:
"I have 35 years' experience making change."
Mostly True
By Bill Adair • February 19, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 11, 2008 in an ABC/Politico interview:
"I have something in common with my husband. He never carried caucuses either. He lost all of the ones that I've lost."
Mostly True
By Adriel Bettelheim • February 13, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 1, 2008 in a flyer sent prior to Super Tuesday:
"8 years of the Clintons, major losses for Democrats across the nation."
Mostly True
By Adriel Bettelheim • February 11, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 10, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va.:
"The last six polls, including this week's Time magazine, show that I beat John McCain by six or seven points."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 11, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 31, 2008 in a debate in Los Angeles:
"George Bush sent people to war without body armor."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • February 4, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 3, 2008 in a campaign event in Fairfield, Conn.:
"In her short time in the United States Senate, the senator from New York, Senator Clinton, got $500-million worth of pork barrel projects."
Mostly True
By Bill Adair • February 4, 2008
Citizens United Political Victory Fund
Citizens United Political Victory Fund
stated on February 1, 2008 in in a TV ad:
John McCain "voted against the Bush tax cuts, both times."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 4, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 30, 2008 in Denver:
Hillary Clinton agrees with John McCain "by voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 1, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 28, 2008 in an automated call to voters:
"He told gay organizers in Massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even Ted Kennedy."
Mostly True
By John Frank • January 31, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 24, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton, Fla.:
Said he's the only Republican candidate "who's actually turned around a government economy."
Mostly True
By Neil Skene • January 28, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 18, 2008:
Barack Obama's church gave a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan.
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 23, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 15, 2008 in Las Vegas:
"Barack (Obama) has one of his biggest supporters in terms of funding, the Exelon Corporation, which has spent millions of dollars trying to make Yucca Mountain the waste depository."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 18, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 16, 2008 in a TV ad:
"And he's the only candidate who will fight for a national catastrophe fund to reduce insurance rates."
Mostly True
By John Frank • January 18, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 16, 2008 in a TV ad:
"And delivered more tax relief than the other Republicans combined."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • January 18, 2008
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