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John McCain
John McCain
stated on 2008-01-12 a speech to the Americans for Prosperity Michigan summit in Livonia, Mich.:
"Congress just passed another huge, pork-filled spending bill. The Democrats allowed less than a day to read all 3,400 pages and stuffed it with nearly 10,000 earmarks costing about $10-billion dollars."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 16, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2008-01-15 a debate in Las Vegas:
Says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls.
Half-True
By Bill Adair • January 16, 2008
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on 2008-01-15 Las Vegas:
"I believe, Senator Clinton, you've raised more money from those people (the oil and gas industry) than any candidate, Democrat or Republican."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 16, 2008
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on 2008-01-08 Dartmouth, N.H.:
Barack Obama "said in 2004 there was no difference between (Obama) and George Bush on the war."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 14, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2008-01-05 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."
Half-True
By Alex Leary • January 9, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2008-01-05 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"You said you would vote against the Patriot Act, then you came to the Senate, you voted for it."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim, Ryan Kelly • January 6, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on 2008-01-05 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"Bill Clinton cut the military drastically."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • January 5, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on 2007-12-30 a TV interview on NBC.:
"...some of those (tax increases) were either court-ordered, or they were voted on by the people and approved by the people for (such) things as roads."
Half-True
By Neil Skene • January 3, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2007-11-19 a speech in Knoxville, Iowa:
"Average families are spending roughly $2,000 more a year on energy costs. ... It's like a $2,000 energy tax in just the last seven years, more than three times what the typical American family received from the Bush tax cuts."
Half-True
By Asjylyn Loder • January 2, 2008
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on 2007-11-07 a Nashville radio interview.:
"He's a good man but he's a pro-life liberal. He's right on the pro-life part, but he's a liberal."
Half-True
By Neil Skene • December 31, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on 2007-12-12 a debate in Des Moines, Iowa:
Says he has "the most impressive education record" of the Republican candidates.
Half-True
By Jeffrey S. Solochek • December 27, 2007
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on 2007-12-26 a TV ad:
"As governor, Mike Huckabee supported higher income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, grocery taxes, tobacco taxes, beer taxes, Internet taxes, nursing home bed taxes."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • December 26, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on 2007-12-12 debate in Johnston, Iowa:
"I'm prolife. I'm not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush. And I'm proud to be prolife."
Half-True
By Amy Hollyfield • December 19, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2007-11-19 Knoxville, Iowa:
"Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression."
Half-True
By Wes Allison • December 15, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on 2007-12-05 an interview:
Huckabee supported "a tuition break to the children of illegals that are here illegally when citizens are having to pay a higher rate."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 5, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2007-11-15 Las Vegas, Nev. :
Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15-million Americans out."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on 2007-11-18 an appearance on Fox News Sunday:
"Fred's never had a 100 percent record on right-to-life in his Senate career. The records reflect that. And he doesn't support the human life amendment, which is most amazing because that's been a part of the Republican platform since 1980."
Half-True
By Wes Allison • November 27, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on 2007-11-26 Nashua, N.H.:
"I won the South Carolina primary in 2004, and I was way behind in the polls at this stage in 2004."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 27, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on 2007-11-15 Las Vegas, Nev. :
Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15 million Americans out."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on 2007-11-24 a newspaper interview.:
"Murder went up" when Romney was governor. "Robbery went up. Violent crimes went up."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007
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