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Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on September 9, 2007 a debate in Miami, Fla.
"We're spending $1.6 billion for all of Latin America in terms of aid and assistance, a fraction of what we're spending in Iraq, the $500 billion we've spent there"
Mostly True
By Jody Kyle • September 14, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on August 29, 2007 a speech in Americus, Ga.
Poor people go to a "payday lender...and they pay 300, 400, 500 percent interest."
True
By Lissa August • September 13, 2007
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on September 7, 2007 a speech in Sioux City, Iowa
"I've cast a couple of 99-1 votes" and been the lone dissenter.
True
By Wes Allison • September 12, 2007
Sam Brownback
Sam Brownback
stated on August 21, 2007
"I'm pro-life. He's not."
False
By Ryan Kelly • September 12, 2007
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on August 27, 2007 a forum on cancer organized by Lance Armstrong.
"Our whole food system in this country...most of it is genetically engineered. And (there is) no testing for the health consequences of this food."
Half-True
By Miranda Blue • September 11, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 3, 2007 New Hampshire.
English "is our national language...if it becomes official, that means in a place like New York City you can't print ballots in any other language."
False
By David DeCamp • September 11, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 2, 2007 a speech by husband Bill Clinton at a Concord, N.H. rally.
"In every single country, she had a majority of the vote -- or more of those who'd already made up their minds."
Mostly True
By Lissa August • September 10, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 5, 2007 a comment by husband Bill Clinton on Larry King Live.
"In New York, when she ran for reelection, she carried 58 of our 62 counties. George Bush had won 40 counties in New York just two years earlier."
True
By Lissa August • September 10, 2007
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on September 5, 2007 a debate in Durham, N.H.
Guantanamo detainees "get taxpayer-paid-for prayer rugs…they had honey-glazed chicken and rice pilaf."
True
By Bill Adair • September 10, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 9, 2007 a debate in Miami, Fla.
"About 40 percent of Hispanic homeowners have subprime mortgages."
True
By Bill Adair • September 10, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 10, 2007
u201CThirty-four percent of Hispanics donu2019t have any health care at all, donu2019t have any health insurance.u201D
True
September 10, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on September 3, 2007
"Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary."
Pants on Fire!
By David Baumann • September 10, 2007
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on September 5, 2007 a debate in Durham, N.H.
"We've lost over 5,000 Americans over there in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and plus the civilians killed."
Mostly True
By Jody Kyle • September 9, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 14, 2007 a television ad.
"Joe Biden is the only candidate with a plan to get us out of Iraq and keep us out."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2007 the campaign's website.
"During his tenure in Washington and in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has accumulated a record of bipartisan success."
Half-True
By David Baumann • September 9, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 11, 2007 a TV ad, in an endorsement by Illinois State Sen. Kirk Dillard
"Sen. Obama worked on some of the deepest issues we had and was successful in a bipartisan way."
True
By David Baumann • September 8, 2007
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on August 29, 2007 an interview on CNN's The Situation Room
"John Kerry was at 4 percent in the polls in December of 2003...and he ended up becoming the nominee of the party."
Half-True
By Josh Korr • September 7, 2007
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on September 9, 2007 a debate in Miami, Fla.
"When NAFTA was passed, there was an acceleration of immigration from Mexico because people were in search of jobs."
Half-True
By David Adams • September 7, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on September 9, 2007 a debate in Miami, Fla.
"Congress only funded half the wall" between Mexico and the United States.
Mostly True
By David DeCamp • September 7, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on September 5, 2007 a debate in Durham, N.H.
"I would love to see us have in this country what I helped lead in Arkansas...Amendment 65 (which) says that we believe life begins at conception, and that we ought to do everything in the world possible to protect it until its natural conclusion."
Mostly False
By Nell Benton • September 6, 2007
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