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Debra Medina
Debra Medina
stated on January 29, 2010 in an interview:
"For the hour after the (Jan. 14) debate, 'Debra Medina' was the No. 1 search on Google and for the remainder of that night No. 3."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 5, 2010
Dick Armey
Dick Armey
stated on January 24, 2010 in an interview with NBC:
"Right now the Tea Party polls higher than the Republicans and the Democrats."
False
By Catharine Richert • January 25, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2009 in a press release:
Says approximately 70 percent of jobs created in the United States in November 2007-2008 were in Texas.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 12, 2010
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on November 17, 2009 in her book, 'Going Rogue':
The McCain campaign "did not elaborate" on Obama's ties to ACORN.
False
By Robert Farley • November 17, 2009
C.W. Bill Young
C.W. Bill Young
stated on November 9, 2009 in a meeting of Florida Republicans:
Claims that Obama said, "For those who oppose our policies, you should just shut up and go away."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • November 11, 2009
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on April 6, 2009 in an episode of her MSNBC show:
Gov. Sarah Palin "got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."
False
By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 23, 2008 in remarks by chief strategist Steve Schmidt:
"The McCain campaign is roughly in the position where Vice President Gore was running against President Bush one week before the election of 2000."
False
By Alexander Lane • December 3, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 21, 2008 in a rally in Bensalem, Pa.:
"Sen. Obama's campaign announced that he's choosing his cabinet."
False
By Bill Adair • October 21, 2008
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on February 7, 2008 in Portland, Maine:
"Everything I have said (on the campaign trail) has been factually accurate."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 12, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 24, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton.:
"I won the majority of the Republican vote in both New Hampshire and South Carolina."
False
By David DeCamp • January 24, 2008
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
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