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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2008-04-08 Washington, D.C.:
Barack Obama's network of small donors constitutes a "parallel public financing system."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 15, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2008-04-14 a television ad.:
"He took on special interests and won, passing the toughest ethics law yet."
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By Adriel Bettelheim • April 14, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2008-03-25 a news conference in Greensburg, Pa.:
"I did very well with young people in Ohio, Massachusetts, California."
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By Stephanie Garry • April 8, 2008
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on 2008-04-05 an e-mail message:
"He positions himself as pro environment, but he scored a zero — yes, zero — from the League of Conservation Voters last year."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 8, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2008-04-01 Philadelphia.:
McCain's "plan for the economy is to extend George Bush's tax cuts for billionaires and give a $100-billion additional corporate tax cut."
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By John Frank • April 2, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2008-03-05 an interview on CNN's American Morning:
"I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights."
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By Adriel Bettelheim • March 11, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2008-03-05 an interview on CNN's "American Morning.":
"I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland."
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By Bill Adair • March 10, 2008
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on 2008-02-29 a graphic on the RNC website.:
"Obama's liberal fiscal agenda: Over $874-billion in new spending."
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By Adriel Bettelheim, Ryan Kelly • February 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2008-02-26 Cleveland, Ohio:
A mailer from the Obama campaign "accurately indicates" that Hillary Clinton would "force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 27, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2008-02-26 Cleveland, Ohio:
Barack Obama said in 2004 "that he basically agreed with the way George Bush was conducting the war."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 27, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2008-01-31 Los Angeles, Calif.:
"I want to freeze interest rates for five years."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 26, 2008
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on 2008-02-14 a Web video.:
The DNC says McCain flip-flopped on whether the Iraq War would be easy.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • February 20, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2008-01-21 Myrtle Beach, S.C.:
"On issue after issue that really were hard to explain or understand, you voted present . . . And anytime anyone raises that, there's always some kind of explanation."
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By Adriel Bettelheim • February 13, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on 2008-01-30 a debate in Simi Valley, Calif.:
"(Romney's) record was that he raised taxes by $730-million."
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By Robert Farley • February 1, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on 2008-01-30 a debate in Simi Valley, Calif.:
"Let's not blame President Bush for all of this. We've got a Congress who sat around on their hands and done nothing but spend a lot of money ... leaving us $9-trillion in debt that we're passing on to our grandchildren."
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By Adriel Bettelheim • January 31, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on 2008-01-24 a debate in Boca Raton.:
Hillary Clinton wants to "wave the white flag of surrender and set a date for withdrawal."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 25, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on 2008-01-25 a debate in Boca Raton.:
"The average American is working through the month of May just to pay off the government."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • January 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2008-01-23 a radio ad in South Carolina:
"But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote 'paid tribute' to Ronald Reagan's economic and foreign policy."
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By John Frank • January 25, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on 2008-01-24 a Republican debate in Boca Raton.:
"Bill Clinton's peace dividend . . . cut the military 25 and 30 percent."
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By Bill Adair • January 24, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2008-01-15 a debate in Las Vegas:
The Bush administration has "the Pentagon trying to take away the signing bonuses when a soldier gets wounded and ends up in the hospital, something that I'm working with a Republican senator to try to make sure never can happen again."
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By Robert Farley • January 21, 2008
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