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Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 9, 2007 in a debate in Dearborn, Mich.:
"I cut taxes 23 times when I was mayor of New York City."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 9, 2007
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on October 9, 2007 in a debate in Dearborn, Mich.:
"The Iraq Study Group reported that (Saddam Hussein) had designs on reviving his nuclear program."
False
By Ryan Kelly • October 9, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 9, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich.:
"A lot of people don't know that 50,000 Americans now make their living off eBay."
Half-True
By Janet Zink • October 9, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 4, 2007 in a television ad:
"She stood by ground zero workers who sacrificed their health after so many sacrificed their lives and kept standing till this administration took action."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 9, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on September 21, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa.:
Rural schools "face the highest dropout rates, the lowest college enrollment rates, have the lowest average teacher salaries..."
Half-True
By Jeffrey S. Solochek • October 8, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 4, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.:
"Hillary stood up for universal health care when almost no one else would, and kept standing till 6-million kids had coverage."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Wes Allison • October 8, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 13, 2007 in a forum hosted by Slate/Yahoo/Huffington Post.:
"Look, I believe in accountability. In 1983, I led the effort in Arkansas to improve our schools."
True
By Jeffrey S. Solochek • October 7, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 14, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC:
"I don't think that Rudy or Fred or John McCain support the marriage amendment."
True
By Miranda Blue • October 5, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on September 2, 2007:
"The reality is, with a $2 trillion-a-year health care budget, we're spending more on health care, nearly 17 percent of our gross domestic product, versus 3.8 percent of GDP on the entire military budget."
Mostly False
By Michael Van Sickler • October 5, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 14, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC:
"I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage."
Half-True
By Miranda Blue, Ryan Kelly • October 5, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on September 26, 2007 in Hanover, N.H.:
"I was the first presidential candidate to lay out a specific, truly universal health care plan."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 4, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on September 21, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC:
"He's sued gun manufacturers. He was supportive of Brady. He was supportive of things like assault weapon bans."
True
By Jody Kyle • October 3, 2007
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on October 3, 2007 in a news release:
"McCain Trying to Have it Both Ways on Iraq"
Mostly False
By Wes Allison • October 3, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 19, 2007 in Florida.:
"It doesn't make sense to me to send $1-billion a day out of our country. We can be energy independent and should be."
Half-True
By David Adams • October 2, 2007
Mike Gravel
Mike Gravel
stated on September 26, 2007 in a debate in Hanover, N.H.:
"If we manufactured 5-million of these 2.5-meg windmills across the country, we could electrify the entire nation — the entire nation."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 2, 2007
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on September 21, 2007 in Washington, D.C.:
"With those first principles, it allowed a fellow like me to get in his truck and go from one end of the state to the other; started 20 points down and wound up 20 points ahead on election night."
True
By David DeCamp • October 2, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 1, 2007 in a TV ad:
"One man opposed a flawed strategy in Iraq. One man had the courage to call for change. One man didn't play politics with the truth."
True
By Wes Allison • October 2, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 12, 2007 in Clinton, Iowa:
"I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 28, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on May 3, 2007:
"When I was mayor of New York City, I encouraged adoptions. Adoptions went up 65-70 percent. Abortions went down 16 percent."
Half-True
By Tom Tobin • September 28, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 26, 2007 in Hanover, N.H.:
"There are 300,000 babies born deformed every year in this country because of women who are alcoholics while they're carrying those children to term."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2007
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