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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 30, 2008 Denver
Hillary Clinton "actually differed with (John McCain) by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 1, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 24, 2008 Boca Raton, Fla.
"Two-thirds of our economy is a consumer economy."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 30, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 28, 2008 an ad on the Internet
Mitt Romney previously believed "that abortion should be safe and legal in this country." Now he is "prolife."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 28, 2008 an ad on the Internet
Romney used to favor gun control, and said he didn't want to go back to Reagan-Bush.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 24, 2008 Boca Raton.
"Now, I also support the Bush tax cuts. Sen. McCain voted against them originally. He now believes they should be made permanent. I'm glad he agrees they should be made permanent."
True
By Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan • January 27, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 25, 2008 Boca Raton.
"We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."
True
By Tom Tobin • January 25, 2008
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on January 25, 2008
"The 1990s were a time of prosperity. We created more than 22-million new jobs, moved 8-million people out of poverty, and turned our economy around."
True
January 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 21, 2008 a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
"While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart."
True
By Bill Adair • January 22, 2008
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on January 21, 2008 a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
"If you are African-American in this country today, you are likely to have a net worth of about 10 percent of what white families have."
True
By Miranda Blue • January 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 15, 2008 debate in Las Vegas
"I'm proud of the fact that I've raised more money from small donors than anybody else, and that we're getting $25, $50, $100 donations, and we've done very well doing it that way."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 16, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 15, 2008 a debate in Las Vegas.
"You know, Sen. McCain said the other day that we might have troops (in Iraq) for 100 years..."
True
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 16, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"The fact is it's not amnesty."
True
By Adriel Bettelheim, Ryan Kelly • January 15, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 14, 2008 a TV interview on CBS.
"(My dad) used to campaign against the gas-guzzling dinosaurs."
True
By John Frank • January 15, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 10, 2008 a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
"(Ronald Reagan) raised taxes a billion dollars in his first year as governor of California."
True
January 11, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 10, 2008 a TV ad airing in Michigan
Says Time magazine called him "one of America's best governors."
True
By Bill Adair • January 10, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 5, 2008 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
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 5, 2008 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 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"Ronald Reagan did amnesty."
True
By Michael Van Sickler • January 6, 2008
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on January 5, 2008 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
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 26, 2007 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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