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Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on December 12, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"Barack Obama is in an economy that's only worsened since he's been president of the United States."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on November 18, 2010 a speech to the Council of 100
Regulations are an "endemic weakness in government -- so old that Thomas Jefferson listed this problem among his charges against the King of England in the Declaration of Independence."
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By Lee Logan • November 22, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on October 21, 2010 an interview on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann"
"More private-sector jobs were created in the first eight months of 2010 than in the eight years of the Bush administration."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 25, 2010
Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher
stated on September 7, 2010 a campaign commercial
"On (Rob Portman's) watch as Bush's trade czar, our deficit with China exploded" and "as Bush's budget chief, Portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on July 18, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week
Democrats in the 1930s wanted President Franklin Roosevelt "to be more conservative."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on June 6, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week
The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series "was a foot and half probably high and outside."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week
Passage of Clinton budget bill in 1993 "led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2010
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on November 23, 2009 MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann
A new Republican litmus test "would have resulted in (the GOP) kicking out Ronald Reagan."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 23, 2008 a radio ad in South Carolina
"But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote 'paid tribute' to Ronald Reagan's economic and foreign policy."
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By John Frank • January 25, 2008
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