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Chain email
Chain email
stated on March 13, 2008 in 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
John McCain
John McCain
stated on April 10, 2008 in 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
Focus on the Family Action
Focus on the Family Action
stated on March 26, 2008 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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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