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Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 5, 2008 in 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 in 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 in 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
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 31, 2007 in 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 in 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 in 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
Spike the Romney Attack Dog
Spike the Romney Attack Dog
stated on January 2, 2008 in a mailer from the Romney campaign to Iowans:
"Mike Huckabee raised taxes on dog groomers!"
Mostly True
By Amy Hollyfield • January 7, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 5, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"I supported the surge when you didn't."
False
By Tom Tobin • January 6, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 5, 2008 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 5, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"Bill Clinton cut the military drastically."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • January 5, 2008
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on December 23, 2007 in 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 in 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
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 26, 2007 in 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
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