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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 16, 2007 "Meet the Press" interview
"I just talked about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I did as governor, the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."
False
December 31, 2007
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on October 31, 2007 a Fox News interview
"And, you know, our first president and our first commander in chief prayed every day. He had a field manual of prayers."
False
By John Frank • December 18, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2007 Johnston, Iowa
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 17, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 28, 2007 a debate in St. Petersburg
The Red Sox waited "87 long years" to win the World Series.
False
By Bill Adair • November 29, 2007
Tom Tancredo
Tom Tancredo
stated on November 20, 2007 Fox News interview
"I spend a lot of time in Iowa, and believe it or not, in Ottumwa, Iowa, this is the heartland, the newspaper, the regular newspaper for Ottumwa, Iowa, is (a) bilingual newspaper."
False
November 29, 2007
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on November 26, 2007 a Web site.
"Hillary's baby bond proposal would give $5,000 to each of the 4-million babies born in the U.S. each year, totaling $20-billion per year, multiplied by four years = $80-billion."
False
November 26, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on October 11, 2007 Manchester, N.H.
The form students fill out to get college financial aid is "longer than the form to get U.S. citizenship."
False
By Jeffrey S. Solochek • November 20, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 8, 2007 Chariton, Iowa
"John wasn't this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 19, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas
"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."
False
By David DeCamp • November 16, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas
"Congress' approval rating is 11 percent. You know who's higher? Dick Cheney and HMOs."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 15, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 9, 2007 Dearborn, Mich.
''The leading Democratic candidate once said that the unfettered free market is the most destructive force in modern America.''
False
By John Frank • November 13, 2007
Chain email
Chain email
stated on November 8, 2007 an e-mail circulated by many people.
Obama "refused to not only put his hand on his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance, but refused to say the pledge."
False
By Bill Adair • November 8, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 30, 2007 Philadelphia, Pa.
"It's just outrageous that under President Bush, the National Institutes of Health have been basically decreased in funding."
False
By Rachel Bloom • November 2, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 2, 2007 statement on Web site
"In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row."
False
November 2, 2007
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on October 30, 2007 a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa.
"More people in this country have seen UFOs than I think approve of George Bush's presidency."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 31, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 31, 2007
"I had prostate cancer, five, six years ago. My chance of surviving prostate cancer, and thank God I was cured of it, in the United States, 82%. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England, only 44% under socialized medicine."
False
By Lisa Greene • October 31, 2007
Chain email
Chain email
stated on October 17, 2007 an e-mail message circulated by many people.
Clinton "refused repeated requests to meet with the Gold Star Mothers."
False
By Bill Adair • October 20, 2007
Chain email
Chain email
stated on September 17, 2007 an e-mail message circulated by many people.
"The Clintons now charge the Secret Service $10,000 monthly rent for the use of (a) Secret Service residence and that rent is just about equal to their mortgage payment."
False
By Bill Adair • October 20, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 9, 2007 Dearborn, Mich.
"Another one he should veto is the SCHIP program, which he should say 'Take the C out of, because now it's for everybody, like every other entitlement program.'"
False
October 15, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 25, 2007 a speech in Nashua, N.H.
"We spent $223-million on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it."
False
October 12, 2007
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