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Tom Tancredo
stated on November 20, 2007 in Fox News interview:

"I spend a lot of time in Iowa, and believe it or not, in Ottumwa, Iowa, this is the heartland, the newspaper, the regular newspaper for Ottumwa, Iowa, is (a) bilingual newspaper."

By Amy Hollyfield • November 29, 2007

Republican National Committee
stated on November 26, 2007 in a Web site.:

"Hillary's baby bond proposal would give $5,000 to each of the 4-million babies born in the U.S. each year, totaling $20-billion per year, multiplied by four years = $80-billion."

By David Baumann • November 26, 2007

Bill Richardson
stated on October 11, 2007 in Manchester, N.H.:

The form students fill out to get college financial aid is "longer than the form to get U.S. citizenship."

By Jeffrey S. Solochek • November 20, 2007

Barack Obama
stated on November 8, 2007 in Chariton, Iowa:

"John wasn't this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 19, 2007

Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 in Las Vegas:

"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."

By David DeCamp • November 16, 2007

Bill Richardson
stated on November 15, 2007 in Las Vegas:

"Congress' approval rating is 11 percent. You know who's higher? Dick Cheney and HMOs."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 15, 2007

Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 9, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich.:

''The leading Democratic candidate once said that the unfettered free market is the most destructive force in modern America.''

By John Frank • November 13, 2007

Chain email
stated on November 8, 2007 in an e-mail circulated by many people.:

Obama "refused to not only put his hand on his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance, but refused to say the pledge."

By Bill Adair • November 8, 2007

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 30, 2007 in Philadelphia, Pa.:

"It's just outrageous that under President Bush, the National Institutes of Health have been basically decreased in funding."

By Rachel Bloom • November 2, 2007

Joe Biden
stated on November 2, 2007 in statement on Web site:

"In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row."

By Wes Allison • November 2, 2007

Dennis Kucinich
stated on October 30, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa.:

"More people in this country have seen UFOs than I think approve of George Bush's presidency."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 31, 2007

Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 31, 2007:

"I had prostate cancer, five, six years ago. My chance of surviving prostate cancer, and thank God I was cured of it, in the United States, 82%. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England, only 44% under socialized medicine."

By Lisa Greene • October 31, 2007

Chain email
stated on October 17, 2007 in an e-mail message circulated by many people.:

Clinton "refused repeated requests to meet with the Gold Star Mothers."

By Bill Adair • October 20, 2007

Chain email
stated on September 17, 2007 in an e-mail message circulated by many people.:

"The Clintons now charge the Secret Service $10,000 monthly rent for the use of (a) Secret Service residence and that rent is just about equal to their mortgage payment."

By Bill Adair • October 20, 2007

John McCain
stated on October 9, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich.:

"Another one he should veto is the SCHIP program, which he should say 'Take the C out of, because now it's for everybody, like every other entitlement program.'"

By David Baumann • October 15, 2007

John McCain
stated on July 25, 2007 in a speech in Nashua, N.H.:

"We spent $223-million on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it."

By David Baumann • October 12, 2007

John Edwards
stated on September 21, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa.:

"Rural schools enroll 40 percent of American children, but receive only 22 percent of federal education funding."

By Jeffrey S. Solochek • October 10, 2007

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."

By Ryan Kelly • October 9, 2007

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."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 4, 2007

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."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2007

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