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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 17, 2008 in 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 16, 2008 in Golden, Colo.:
"In January, I outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy, which formed the basis for a bipartisan stimulus package that passed the Congress."
Mostly False
By Adriel Bettelheim • September 18, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2008 in a TV ad:
McCain "voted to cut education funding, against accountability standards. He even proposed abolishing the Department of Education."
Mostly False
By Shawn Zeller • September 17, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 17, 2008 in 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
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 16, 2008 in an interview on CNN's "American Morning":
"I said two years ago that the Fannie and Freddie thing was a very serious problem and we had to work on it."
Mostly False
By Adriel Bettelheim • September 17, 2008
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
stated on September 16, 2008 in a conversation with reporters.:
Holding up a BlackBerry, McCain campaign adviser says, "you’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create."
False
By Robert Farley • September 17, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 16, 2008 in a speech in Tampa:
"Obama has asked for $932-million in earmarks, literally $1-million for every day that he’s been in Congress."
Mostly True
By Shawn Zeller • September 16, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 16, 2008 in Tampa, Fla.:
"I have never asked for a single earmark, pork barrel project for my state of Arizona."
False
By Shawn Zeller • September 16, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 16, 2008 in 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 6, 2008 in a radio address:
"I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history."
Half-True
By Alexander Lane • September 15, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 10, 2008 in Virginia:
"Through competition as governor, I got agreements to build a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline."
Mostly False
By Alexander Lane • September 15, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 15, 2008 in St. Clair Shores, Mich.:
"When George Bush said we shouldn't investigate why the government's response to Hurricane Katrina was so incompetent, John McCain stood with him."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • September 15, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 11, 2008 in 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 in Fairbanks, Alaska:
On whether global warming is man-made.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 12, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 12, 2008 in a TV ad:
"He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • September 12, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 9, 2008 in 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 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
Chain email
Chain email
stated on September 8, 2008:
"The Books Sarah Palin tried to have banned."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • September 10, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 9, 2008 in 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 in an e-mail message:
Palin "fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he 'intimidated' her."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2008
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