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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 1, 2015 in remarks following a school shooting in Oregon:
"States with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • October 6, 2015
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 3, 2015 in 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 in 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
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Viral image
stated on October 1, 2015 in 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 in 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 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 in 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 in 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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By Tom Kertscher • September 30, 2015
Ruth's List Florida
Ruth's List Florida
stated on September 22, 2015 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2015 in the second GOP primary debate:
When Carly Fiorina says Hewlett-Packard "revenues went up, that's because she bought Compaq. It was a terrible deal."
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By Linda Qiu • September 21, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN debate:
Says Donald Trump was "forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice, four times."
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By Clayton Youngman, Lauren Carroll • September 21, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 14, 2015 in a speech.:
"The top 1/10th of 1 percent today in America owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."
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By Sean Gorman, Tom Kertscher • September 21, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 20, 2015 in an interview on "This Week.":
"We had a three-hour debate, no discussion about the national debt, very little about the economy."
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By Joshua Gillin • September 20, 2015
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