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Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 5, 2008 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
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 10, 2008 a TV ad airing in Michigan
Says Time magazine called him "one of America's best governors."
True
By Bill Adair • January 10, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."
Half-True
By Alex Leary • January 9, 2008
Freedom Defense Advocates
Freedom Defense Advocates
stated on December 22, 2007
The Mormon religion has "a plan that will see the Constitution thrown out and replaced by a theocracy."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 8, 2008
Spike the Romney Attack Dog
Spike the Romney Attack Dog
stated on January 2, 2008 a mailer from the Romney campaign to Iowans
"Mike Huckabee raised taxes on dog groomers!"
Mostly True
By Amy Hollyfield • January 7, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 31, 2007 a campaign event in Ames, Iowa
"John doesn't have a record in the Senate. John's only passed four bills. They're all about post offices."
False
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 7, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 31, 2007 a campaign event in Ames, Iowa
"Barack Obama hasn't passed any (bills)."
False
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 7, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 31, 2007 a campaign event in Ames, Iowa
"There's not a major bill I know with Hillary's name on it."
Mostly True
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 7, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"There are 7,000 kids in New Hampshire who have health care because I helped to create the Children's Health Insurance Program."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 6, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2008 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
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"Sen. Obama's chair in New Hampshire is a lobbyist. He lobbies for the drug companies."
True
By John Frank • January 6, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"Ronald Reagan did amnesty."
True
By Michael Van Sickler • January 6, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"I don't describe your plan as amnesty in my ad. I don't call it amnesty."
Pants on Fire!
By Adriel Bettelheim, Ryan Kelly • January 6, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"You said you would vote against the Patriot Act, then you came to the Senate, you voted for it."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim, Ryan Kelly • January 6, 2008
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
As secretary of the Department of Energy under former President Bill Clinton, "I created reserves of home heating oil."
True
By Asjylyn Loder • January 6, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"I supported the surge when you didn't."
False
By Tom Tobin • January 6, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"Bill Clinton cut the military drastically."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • January 5, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 26, 2007 a press release
"Sen. McCain says it was not a mistake to vote against the Bush tax cuts ... but now says the tax cuts need to be made permanent."
True
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 3, 2008
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
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on December 30, 2007 a TV interview on NBC.
"...some of those (tax increases) were either court-ordered, or they were voted on by the people and approved by the people for (such) things as roads."
Half-True
By Neil Skene • January 3, 2008
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