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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 5, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H.:
"The Z-visa that was offered in that Senate bill let everybody who's here illegally, other than criminals, stay here for the rest of their lives."
False
By Sasha Bartolf • September 6, 2007
Sam Brownback
Sam Brownback
stated on September 5, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H.:
In countries that allow gay marriage, the rates of heterosexual marriage "have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern Europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 6, 2007
Obama Girl
Obama Girl
stated on July 19, 2007 in a YouTube video.:
"At least Obama didn't marry his cousin," as Giuliani did.
True
By John Frank • September 6, 2007
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on September 9, 2007 in a debate in Miami, Fla.:
"Thirty-four percent of Hispanics don't have any health care at all, don't have any health insurance."
True
By John Martin • September 6, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 26, 2007 in Stratham, N.H.:
"Senator McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts. Now he's for them."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 5, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 20, 2007 in New Hampshire:
If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, "Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state."
False
By Tom Tobin • September 4, 2007
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on September 5, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H.:
"I built that border fence in San Diego...and it reduced the smuggling of people and drugs...by 90 percent."
Mostly True
By Miranda Blue • September 3, 2007
Sam Brownback
Sam Brownback
stated on September 5, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H.:
"Currently, we're at 36 percent of our children born out of wedlock."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 3, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on May 31, 2007 in New York.:
"The crime decline in the United States would be fairly small if it wasn't for the crime decline in New York City."
False
By Wes Allison • September 1, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on March 21, 2007 in Oklahoma City.:
"The failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 1, 2007
Mike Gravel
Mike Gravel
stated on June 28, 2007 in a debate at Howard University.:
"In 1972, we had a 179,000 human beings in jail in this country. Today, it's 2.3-million, and 70 percent of them are black, African-American."  
Pants on Fire!
By David DeCamp • August 30, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on September 5, 2007 in a TV ad.:
"Bill Richardson passed the first law in the nation giving National Guard soldiers $400,000 in life insurance."
Mostly True
By Tom Tobin • August 30, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 6, 2007 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa:
"In state after state, polls make clear that the American public understands the Kelo ruling is a disaster."
Mostly True
By Miranda Blue • August 30, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 23, 2007 in a news release:
Sen. Clinton said "the surge of troops in Iraq was 'working.' Now.... Sen. Clinton says the surge 'has failed' and that we should 'begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.'"
Mostly False
By Wes Allison • August 30, 2007
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on August 21, 2007 in article on his campaign Web site:
We live in "a time of historically low violent crime rates and historically high gun ownership rates nationally."
Half-True
By David Baumann • August 29, 2007
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on June 19, 2007 in Washington, DC:
"I'm the first person who really took up the issue of the war. Four years ago I said that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and, actually... did an analysis which disproved the cause for the war."
Mostly True
By John Frank • August 28, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 23, 2007 in CNN/YouTube debate in Charleston, S.C.:
"You know we can't just pull out now... The truth of the matter is: If we started today, it would take one year, one year to get 160,000 troops physically out of Iraq, logistically."
True
By Wes Allison • August 27, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 4, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa.:
"The president is brain-dead."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Adair • August 24, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 26, 2007 in Stratham, N.H.:
"(McCain) was opposed to ethanol. Now he's for it."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 23, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 26, 2007 in Stratham, N.H.:
"(McCain) said he was opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade. Now he's for overturning Roe v. Wade."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 23, 2007
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