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Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on December 23, 2007 a Meet the Press interview
"If you got rid of the income tax today you'd have about as much revenue as we had 10 years ago."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 3, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 6, 2007 College Station, Texas
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 28, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on December 19, 2007 a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.
"One out of every four homeless people on our streets is a veteran."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 26, 2007
Chain email
Chain email
stated on October 1, 2007
"Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 20, 2007
Chain email
Chain email
stated on December 19, 2007
When Obama was sworn into office, "he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Kuran (Their equivalency to our Bible, but very different beliefs)."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 20, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2007 Johnston, Iowa
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 17, 2007
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on December 12, 2007 debate in Johnston, Iowa
"Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 13, 2007
Chain email
Chain email
stated on December 12, 2007
An anonymous e-mail says that Hillary Clinton advocates communism.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 12, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 10, 2007 a TV ad
Mike Huckabee "supported taxpayer-funded scholarships for illegal aliens."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 11, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 26, 2007 a TV ad
Romney said "'No' to in-state tuition" for illegal immigrants.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 5, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 5, 2007 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 November 15, 2007 Las Vegas, Nev.
Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15-million Americans out."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas, Nev.
"I do provide universal health care."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on November 28, 2007 a debate in St. Petersburg
Supported in-state tuition in Arkansas for illegal immigrants "if you'd sat in our schools from the time you're 5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student," among other things.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 29, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on November 26, 2007 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 November 15, 2007 Las Vegas, Nev.
Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15 million Americans out."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas, Nev.
Obama says his health care plan is "universal."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on November 24, 2007 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
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 25, 2007 an interview
"The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI's crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 8, 2007 Chariton, Iowa
"John wasn't this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 19, 2007
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