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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 19, 2007 a speech in Knoxville, Iowa
"Average families are spending roughly $2,000 more a year on energy costs. ... It's like a $2,000 energy tax in just the last seven years, more than three times what the typical American family received from the Bush tax cuts."
Half-True
By Asjylyn Loder • January 2, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 2, 2008 a Web ad
"Mitt Romney says the next president doesn't need foreign policy experience."
Mostly True
By Janet Zink • January 2, 2008
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on October 30, 2007 a debate in Philadelphia
"The fact of the matter is that my colleague from New York, Senator Clinton, there are 50 percent of the American public that say they're not going to vote for her."
Mostly True
By David DeCamp • January 2, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 26, 2007 a speech in Iowa
"Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher."
False
By Asjylyn Loder • December 31, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 28, 2007 a TV ad
"McCain opposes repeal of the death tax."
Mostly True
By Janet Zink • December 31, 2007
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on November 7, 2007 a Nashville radio interview.
"He's a good man but he's a pro-life liberal. He's right on the pro-life part, but he's a liberal."
Half-True
By Neil Skene • December 31, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 16, 2007 "Meet the Press" interview
"I just talked about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I did as governor, the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."
False
By Amy Hollyfield • December 31, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 27, 2007 a TV ad
Biden was responsible for "ending genocide in Bosnia."
Mostly False
By Jeffrey S. Solochek • December 31, 2007
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
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 19, 2007
Former business partner Robert Gay says: "The man who helped save my daughter was Mitt Romney."
True
By David DeCamp • December 28, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 17, 2007 a TV ad airing in Iowa.
Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined."
True
By Bill Adair • December 28, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on December 19, 2007 an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Romney refused to pardon "a decorated soldier" returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.
True
By Bill Adair • December 28, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on December 12, 2007 a debate in Des Moines, Iowa
Says he has "the most impressive education record" of the Republican candidates.
Half-True
By Jeffrey S. Solochek • December 27, 2007
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on December 26, 2007 a TV ad
"As governor, Mike Huckabee supported higher income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, grocery taxes, tobacco taxes, beer taxes, Internet taxes, nursing home bed taxes."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • December 26, 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
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on November 15, 2007 a debate in Las Vegas
"Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it's okay to shoot an American soldier."
Mostly False
By Neil Skene • December 21, 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
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 12, 2007 debate in Johnston, Iowa
"I'm prolife. I'm not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush. And I'm proud to be prolife."
Half-True
By Amy Hollyfield • December 19, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 18, 2007 a comment to a shopper at a supermarket in Des Moines, Iowa.
"I can't sign money. That's illegal."
Mostly False
By Bill Adair • December 19, 2007
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