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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 5, 2015 her gun policy platform.
"While 38 percent of (firearms) dealers that were inspected in 2011 were noncompliant with federal law, only 0.05 percent of inspected dealers had their licenses revoked."
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By Linda Qiu • October 8, 2015
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on September 18, 2015 a speech
"Millions of dollars are spent by Planned Parenthood to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives and the Senate."  
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October 8, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 25, 2015 comments to reporters
A state agency wanted to fire an employee who spent four hours per day watching pornography, but the state "employment commission reinstated the person."
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October 7, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 2, 2015 a press conference
Today, the deficit is "below the average deficits over the past 40 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 1, 2015 remarks following a school shooting in Oregon
"States with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths."
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By Lauren Carroll • October 6, 2015
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 3, 2015 a New York Times op-ed
"More preschoolers are shot dead each year than police officers are in the line of duty."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 6, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on September 30, 2015 an interview on Fox News' "Hannity"
Planned Parenthood "is an organization that funnels millions of dollars in political contributions to pro-abortion candidates."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 1, 2015 a Facebook post
Number of Americans killed by terrorism in the last decade: 24. Number of Americans killed by guns in the last decade: 280,024.
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By Linda Qiu • October 5, 2015
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on September 12, 2015 the Republican weekly radio/TV address
Iran’s "regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war" and "has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nation's capital."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015
ESPN
ESPN
stated on September 27, 2015 in an article
Alabama’s Crimson Tide will be the underdog in Saturday’s game against the Georgia Bulldogs, the first time in 72 consecutive games that Alabama has not been favored by oddsmakers to win.
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By Nancy Badertscher • October 1, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 28, 2015 comments on Twitter.
"Unlike virtually every other campaign, we don't have a super PAC."
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By Linda Qiu • September 30, 2015
stated on September 22, 2015 a speech
Every general City of Milwaukee employee "pays toward his or her pension, but approximately 88 percent of our police officers and firefighters do not."  
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September 30, 2015
Ruth's List Florida
Ruth's List Florida
stated on September 22, 2015 an email to voters
"Twenty-six men named William have been elected to statewide office and only seven women have had the honor."  
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By Joshua Gillin • September 28, 2015
Jennifer Shilling
Jennifer Shilling
stated on September 16, 2015 a tweet
A "voucher school that closed after 9 days this year collected $5.4 million in taxpayer subsidies since first opening."
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By James B. Nelson • September 25, 2015
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
stated on September 21, 2015 an interview with Ted Cruz
Says Ronald Reagan "reversed his world’s ‘largest tax cut’ and raised taxes when revenues did not match the expectations."
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By Katie Sanders • September 25, 2015
Don Zimmerman
Don Zimmerman
stated on September 1, 2015 an Austin City Council meeting
Salaries of Austin residents who don't work for city government "have not been going up 3 percent a year for the last several years."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2015
Jay Nixon
Jay Nixon
stated on August 12, 2015 a post on Twitter
Missouri is "#1 in the nation for holding down tuition increases at public universities."
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By Arthur Cook • September 24, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on September 10, 2015 interview with Democracy Now!
Says "the cascading effects" of climate change contributed to the rise of ISIS.
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By Linda Qiu • September 23, 2015
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on September 20, 2015 a panel discussion on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
Says Pope Francis "took the name of a saint who basically reached out to Muslims."
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By Jon Greenberg • September 22, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 19, 2015 remarks at the 2015 New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention
"Under Republicans, recessions happen four times as frequently as under Democrats."  
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By Lauren Carroll • September 22, 2015
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