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Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on January 21, 2011 HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
"From 1980 to 1990, the top 1 percent saw their income go up by roughly 80 percent" while "the median wage in the country over (the same) 10 years went up 3 percent."
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By Robert Farley • February 3, 2011
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on January 23, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Poll results from the past 35 years show that State of the Union speeches "do not move" presidential approval numbers.
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By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2011
Mike Haridopolos
Mike Haridopolos
stated on November 2, 2010 a post-election interview.:
"This is the first time a party has picked up multiple seats during a regular election since the mid 1980s, making this the largest majority of any party in more than 25 years."
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By Laura Figueroa • November 16, 2010
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
stated on November 8, 2010 an interview on NBC's "Today Show":
"My debt to GDP was the lowest or one of the lowest of modern presidents. My taxes to GDP was the lowest and my spending to GDP" was too.
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By Louis Jacobson • November 13, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2010 a televised town hall:
"Our tax rates are lower now than they were under Ronald Reagan. They're much lower than they were under Dwight Eisenhower."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 22, 2010
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan
stated on September 5, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"The president's party always gets shellacked in midterms. It's only twice, 1934 and 2002, that the president's party actually gained in both the House and the Senate."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2010
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan
stated on September 5, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Likens Obama's predicament to 1982, saying, "when Reagan just started out, (unemployment was at) exactly the same point. He was two years into his term. The unemployment was well over 10 percent, and it did come out of it."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2010
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on July 11, 2010 an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press:
Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. had "52 months of ... uninterrupted job creation" and "revenues were at an all-time high in 2007."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 15, 2010 an interview:
Says he said last year there's "absolutely no reason" for Texas to secede.
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 22, 2010
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on December 16, 2009 a 'Wall Street Journal' column:
President Obama has "the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on September 15, 2009 a floor speech:
The House of Representatives has never passed a resolution of disapproval to condemn a member's behavior.
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By Catharine Richert • September 16, 2009
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