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John McCain
John McCain
stated on April 10, 2008 a speech in Brooklyn, N.Y.
If the U.S. stops adding to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, it "will lessen worldwide demand for oil" and reduce prices.
Mostly False
By Wes Allison • April 16, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on March 13, 2008 a chain e-mail
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise capital gains taxes, which apply to home sales.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 16, 2008
Focus on the Family Action
Focus on the Family Action
stated on March 26, 2008 a Web article
Obama supports "teaching schoolchildren — in 2nd grade, no less — about homosexual relationships."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • April 15, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 24, 2008 an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News editorial board
"My husband didn't wrap up the nomination until June."
Mostly False
By Stephanie Garry • April 9, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 17, 2008 Washington, D.C.
As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were "too small, too poor or too dangerous" for the president.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 4, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on March 13, 2008 a chain e-mail
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise taxes on dividends, a move that would crash the stock market.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 24, 2008
Tennessee Republican Party
Tennessee Republican Party
stated on February 25, 2008 a news release
"The board of a nonprofit organization on which Obama served as a paid director ... granted funding to a controversial Arab group."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • March 14, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 11, 2008 a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pa.
Obama voted for "tax subsidies and giveways" that have slowed oil companies from pursuing clean energy sources.
Mostly False
By Dina Cappiello • March 12, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 5, 2008 an interview on CNN's American Morning.
"I negotiated open borders to let fleeing refugees into safety from Kosovo."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 10, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 24, 2008 a chain e-mail based on an article written by Dick Morris
"Hillary interned with Bob Treuhaft, the head of the California Communist Party."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • February 15, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 3, 2008 an interview on "Face the Nation"
In the Florida Republican primary, "we got a very large percentage of the, quote, conservative vote."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • February 5, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 30, 2008 Denver
Hillary Clinton "agrees with (John McCain) in embracing the Bush-Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don't like."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 1, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 26, 2008 Fort Myers, Fla.
Mitt Romney wants "to set a date for withdrawal" from Iraq.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 31, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 30, 2008 a Republican debate in Simi Valley, Calif.
"Every billion dollars we spend on highway construction results in 47,500 jobs. But the fact is the average American is sitting in traffic 38 hours a year."
Mostly False
By Shawn Zeller • January 31, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 30, 2008 a debate in Simi Valley, Calif.
Romney left Massachusetts "with a $245-million debt because of the big government-mandated health care system."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 31, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 28, 2008 West Palm Beach, Fla.
"Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 28, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 24, 2008 a debate in Boca Raton.
Says he was the only Republican candidate at a prior debate who said lower-income workers were being hurt by the economy.
Mostly False
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 24, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 21, 2008 a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
"I was fighting against those (Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 22, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"We haven't built a refinery, I think, in 30 years."
Mostly False
By Asjylyn Loder • January 10, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
Barack Obama "wants the government to take over health care, spend hundreds of billions of dollars of new money for health insurance for everyone."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 6, 2008
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