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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 30, 2011 a speech to the American Legion
The United States "won every major battle" of the Vietnam War. "Every single one."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 15, 2011 a town hall in Litchfield, N.H.
Says that 500,000 federal workers -- one-fourth of the federal workforce -- make more than $100,000 a year.
Mostly True
By Kevin Landrigan • September 3, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 13, 2011 a house party in New Hampshire
Says that when President Obama visited El Paso, he "pronounced that the border with Mexico and the United States was safer than it ever was in history."
Mostly True
By Maryalice Gill • September 2, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 26, 2011 a campaign event
President Barack Obama "has virtually no one in his cabinet with private-sector experience."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 13, 2011 a speech at a house party in New Hampshire.
Says President Barack Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help with offshore drilling projects.
Pants on Fire!
By Gregory Trotter • September 1, 2011
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
stated on August 29, 2011 an opinion column
"The ratio of corporate profits to wages is now higher than at any time since just before the Great Depression."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 27, 2011 a campaign event
"The United States is the No. 1 country in the world for energy resources. … We are the king daddy dogs when it comes to energy."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2011
Bob Casey
Bob Casey
stated on August 26, 2011 a conference call with reporters
In Afghanistan, "it is very, very rare that someone who is killed in action is not killed by an" improvised explosive device, or IED.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2011
Xavier Becerra
Xavier Becerra
stated on July 29, 2011 a press conference
"We've had 11,000 attempts to amend the Constitution since 1789."
True
By Will Short Gorham • August 30, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 a speech at "Politics and Eggs" in Bedford, N.H.
Says Texas gained 21,000 doctors due to tort reform.
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 25, 2011
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 21, 2011 a comment on 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour'
"Over the last four years, 53 percent of black wealth has just disappeared."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 24, 2011
Thaddeus McCotter
Thaddeus McCotter
stated on August 16, 2011 an op-ed in the "National Review"
"When lenders foreclose on homes, they typically suffer losses that exceed 30 percent of the value of the home."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 23, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 a campaign stop in New Hampshire
Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 22, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on July 26, 2011 a speech at Dartmouth College.
China is or soon will be "the largest English-speaking nation" in the world.
Half-True
By John Gregg • August 19, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on August 2, 2011 a campaign appearance in Milford, N.H.
There are 500 million Internet users "and 80 million bloggers who are driving discussions in China. … So you’ve got a lot of people voicing frustration and discontent."
Mostly True
By Jake Berry • August 19, 2011
Martin Frost
Martin Frost
stated on August 12, 2011 a column in "POLITICO"
Says Rick Perry flip-flopped on gay marriage by first saying it was a state’s rights issue and then saying he was in favor of a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
Mostly False
By Martha M. Hamilton • August 19, 2011
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
stated on August 14, 2011 a "New York Times" op-ed
The "mega-rich" pay about 15 percent in taxes, while the middle class "fall into the 15 percent and 25 percent income tax brackets, and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 18, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 8, 2011 a speech to a Manchester, N.H. Rotary club
Says he worked with the Democratic legislature to balance spending with revenues so that "at the end of my four-year term, the rainy day fund was established at more than $2 billion."
Mostly True
By Josh Rogers • August 16, 2011
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on August 15, 2011 a column in the "New York Times"
"One in four Texans lacks health insurance, the highest proportion in the nation."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 15, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on August 11, 2011 an interview with the 'Miami Herald.'
"The weight of the evidence (on global warming) is that most of it, maybe all of it, is because of natural causes ... it’s fair to say the science is in dispute."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 14, 2011
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