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Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 Oxford, Miss.
John McCain "has threatened extinction for North Korea and sung songs about bombing Iran."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 Oxford, Miss.
Barack Obama "pays for every dime" of his spending plans.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 Oxford, Miss.
Under Obama's tax plan, "95 percent of you will get a tax cut."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 26, 2008 Oxford, Miss.
Obama "has voted in the United States Senate to increase taxes on people who make as low as $42,000 a year."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 26, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 Oxford, Miss.
John McCain wants to "give oil companies another $4-billion" in tax breaks.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 26, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 26, 2008 Oxford, Miss.
"Senator Obama has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Bill Adair • September 26, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 23, 2008 in a television ad
Obama says McCain went to Bermuda and "pledged to protect tax breaks for American corporations that hide their profits offshore."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 23, 2008 in a television ad
"Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists" from Bermuda gave McCain $50,000.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 24, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 19, 2008 Green Bay, Wis.
Barack Obama got more campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "than any other member of Congress, except for the Democratic chairmen of the committee that oversees them."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 19, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 17, 2008 Elko, Nev.
Obama's tax plan cuts taxes "for 95 percent of all working families."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 18, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 17, 2008 Elko, Nev.
McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm is "the architect of some of the deregulation in Washington that helped cause the mess on Wall Street."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 17, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 16, 2008 Golden, Colo.
John McCain said last year he didn't know of a solution to the mortgage crisis.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 16, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 11, 2008 Fairbanks, Alaska
Sarah Palin was repeating "Abraham Lincoln's words" in discussing the war in Iraq.
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 12, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 11, 2008 Fairbanks, Alaska
On whether global warming is man-made.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 12, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 9, 2008 in a television ad
Education Week says Obama 'hasn't made a significant mark on education,' is 'elusive' on accountability, and a 'staunch defender of the existing public school monopoly.'
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 11, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 9, 2008 in a television ad
Obama's one education accomplishment was "legislation to teach 'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 11, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 9, 2008 a Web ad
Says Obama called Sarah Palin a pig.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 31, 2008 in an e-mail message
Palin "fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he 'intimidated' her."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 27, 2008 Denver
John McCain's tax plan will give no reduction "for 100-million American families."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 28, 2008 Denver
"The average American family" saw income rise $7,500 under Bill Clinton and decline $2,000 under George Bush.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2008
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